, 1873-09-09
THAT EXPRESS ROBBERY.

It s unnecessary to toll tho people OF this city.
that the Chicago Times Is q blackguard newa-
paper. Every issue bears testimony to tho fact
A reporter, no matter how we'll qualified ho 1nny
bo to oil any position In his lnc will not bo re-
tnncd In its service very long unlosa ho loses Lis
self-rcspoot and anBista n making this black-
gunrais1n Of tho papor more conspicuous. Even
thon ho is almost certain to 10 discharged If ho
noglocts to offer up daily incense to the romark-
ablo little being who is permitted to control tho
local colutnna. When this diuinutiye mep's in.
finitosimal 1ivor gots out Of order, md a person
or thing remains to bo abused, ho generally re-
neyes bis subordinate blackguarls Of tho
6copio portion Of his anatomy has been
In a wretched state Hince his employer IN
CURED in tho vigorous way which Is poou-
hnrly his own, why tho Times did not contain
report Of that Important political meeting
which waH hold a week ago Inst Sunday. Tile
uttlc follow waa just beginning to recover when
i copy Of THE Tn1nuNE, containing exclusive aoA
counts Of heavy robbery, a disastrous fire, and
q serious leak in the lake tuunol, WAS put iuto
bis hand, and he immediately experienced re-
1apHo. The very cevor nrtiolo iu yestorlay't.
Times abont reporter Of this paper is tho le-
suit. Il Is q rennrkablo production. Tho writ
er'e familiarity with auch abstruBc matters ~
"gin,"" Fourth avenue" etc., etc., Is simply
extraordinary, aud recalls to mind tho mastcrly
manner i'll which no handled the equally ab-
Htruao mattor Of " "slooYo-buttonB," not long
since.
It Ia olaimed In tho article that THE Tn1suNs'a
ncoonnt Of tho e1pros8 robbery WA 1nnnufao.
tnred out OF whole cloth, and TINT tt,oro iB not
man i1amed Gray in tho employ Of tho Pinkorton
Agency. Tho Inter assertion is Bitnply abaurd,
Tor .every business man from tho riyor to
Madison street, is acquainted with Lieut..
Gray, who has had charge of portion Of tho
Preventive Police force for years. No evidence
ia adducod to prove that the robbory was
| anil In In ofn
OF time and writing materials to reiterato that
the account OF. tho affair in Sundays TRIBUNE
was in tho 1nnin correct. In order, however,
/ that tho little Times man may have occasion to
write another cloyor article, wo will ropublBh
/ the moat important atatonontH in tho report:
Tho American Express Company was robbed Of
9 package of money aud iewolry amounting to
sso9oe II Va valqS. No., Tho thief vs. essengos
Gray, Of tho Pinkortou Preventive Police at.
rested him III burlington, Iowa, and brought
him to Chicago. Tho contents Of tho package
Wero nearly,au recovered
to tho hasto in which 1t waB written and tho i1l-
perfect story which wns told to tho reporter.
Tho messenger did not belong in this section Of
tho country. but was employed by tho Express
tho County Jail or in any Of tho city stations
houses, but waa detained ct the pnterton Office
! until taken East
Tho facts and tho errors In the original report
nave now DeeH pHbHsne1 lor Tho scc0nu tlmey
and the littlo man with tho disordored liver can
howl again. He should not forget to howl about
that fire and that tunnel leak Willie ho is about it,
Go and see the Pinkerton peop'o, little n,au, and
| got few facts, and TuB In1nuNg- will perhapa
| give its authority for tho robbery.
It ia aoidom that any nova OF importance With
l. which tho plnkerton Agency ia III any way con-
corned gets into tho hands Of reporters befora
Mr., pinkorton or his chief officers arc prepared
to give IL. This atriot secrecy is the socrot OF
the AEcncyH BuCCcBH In DYoEy city. Moro clrd
than usual il takon to koop criminal trananc.
tion quiet when an express company is inter-
ested, tho latter deeming 1t wise policy not to
let their patrons know Of robbery, especially Il
tile thiof has been caught and tho property ro-
covered. But for Nh accident the robbery Inon-
toned in Sundays TRIBUNE would not have
loakod out, and now tina. 1t has tho pinkerton
officers have too much Sense to deny 1t.