The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-04-21
From the Daily of Thursday.
A SENSATION.
Feeble Attempt to Work I'm q
Sensation by Garbled Ex-
tracts, and Falsifca-
ton Of Facts.


tracts, and F'alsifca-
ton Of Facts.
common failing with fedglins
Journalists, Is the insane ides
that they must make their pape,
lively" by the publication of "sen.
sational" matter, and if to this delu.
sion is added the prurient conception
OF the sensational which sees life and
interest only in incidents largely sug.
gestive of the impure, the result If
that the readers are semi-occasionally
nauseated by such garbled and trans.
parently false reports as appeared in
the Inter Mountain last evening un.
der the double caption money IN
Montana, "a Butte Woman in New
York Accused of a Grave Crime"
The report is ostensibly copied from
the New York Herald of the 10th
inst, and narrates the story of a
Butte woman named Miller having
employed in New York four
young ladies, to act as
mattresses in Butte; among them
a pleasant looking German cir
named Bertha Silk. That after leav
Ing New York it became evident to
Bertha that she was being taken to
far off Montana with immoral de-
signs, and that she fed from the
train and returned to New York,
where she secured the arrest of an
intelligence Office keeper named Mrs.
Lowe, on the charge of completely
with the supposed immoral designs
of Mrs. Miller. That part of the
story which refers to the suspicious
of the girl and her breaking the con-
tract under which she had started to
Montana, seems to be based upon
fact, but stops short of the truth, in
that the narrative fails to state, that
these suspicious were first whispered
into the girls ear by a rival
intelligence office proprietor,
who desired to injure Mrs.
Lowe, who bears the reputation in
New York of being an earnest Chris
tian woman whose helping hand has
lifted hundreds Of the poor and de-
serving women of the great metrop-
oils into positions of independent
self-support. The narrative as pub
lished in the Iter-Mountain was
not published in the New York
Herald Of April 10th. The story as
it appears in the Herald mentions
no such name as Mrs. Miller, but
gives the name of Mrs. Frederick
Schultz, a woman we'll known in
this community and who has been
known in New York for thirty years. |
The change of names is only &C.
counted for by a willingness ON the
part of the evening luminary to fill
its columns with a sensational story
at the sacrifice of truth, or a coward
ly fear of the results of publishing the
real name. The Inter- Mountain also
omits to state that Immediately after
the arrest in New York of Mrs. f,
Lowe, at the instance of Bertha Silk, |
the New York officials commune
Gated with the officials of this city
regarding the standing of Mrs.
Schultz and the character of her bust
ness, and that City Marshal Lou P.
Smith and Judge Wilcox telegraphed
back that her standing here was
good and her business legitimate and
respectable, upon receipt of which
the case was dismissed and Mrs.
Lowe discharged from custody by
the New York magistrate. All these
facts were known or might have
been known to the editor of the
Inter mountain, yet in order to fill
his columns with fraudulent sensa-
ton, he was willing to publish
the garbled and falsified report, to
the injury of n of our most re-
German citizens, and al
he must have known that it's
would plunge into grief
and shame the three young ladies
who accompanied Mrs. Schultz from
New York to geek an honest liveli-
hood among the generous people Of
and who have already
taken their position here as honest,
hardworking girls.
Journalism which resorts to such
methods as these for the purpose Of
to a morbid appetite for
has reached the lowest
of recklessness and depravity.
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