Morning journal and courier., 1883-12-12
SouruaI auS Gourier.
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Wednesday, December 12, 1888.
RACHE AND TYING.

New York has not produced many stranger stories than that in which the Rev John Owen Bache, of Grace church, Harlem, is figuring SO prominently. Last Thursday evening MT. Bache was seized by some will lains, robbed of whatever he had with him that was valuable and left, badly injured, on the sidewalk. This affair might easily have passed for one of the ordinary cases of rob bery that are SO frequent in the great city, but the ubiquitous and entsrprising reporter soon made it plain that 1t was not. It was said that MT Bache was assaulted and robbed by persons who were tying to blackmail him because he was friend of Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, jr As the story is told certain letters from lady to MT. TSng were offezed to Mir. Bache the day after Mir. Tsng left this coun- try for Paris, last October, by 8 sandy-hair- ed, clean-shaven man, who called upon him in the guise of reporter. This person showed Mr. BRche the package, and demanded $1, ,0O0 for it, on penalty of publishing tue letters. MT. Bache, not knowing the real character of the alleged letters, told the b1ackmailer to call the next Tuesday. Meanwhile he en- gagged three detectives who were in or about the house at all hours, one of whom vas hired to shadow MT. Bache wherever he went. The rector kept these detectives in his employ for twenty. one days, when he dismissed them, paying them S21O. The next day the blackmaiIer came, taunting him about the detectives. He again demanded 1000 for the letters, on penalty of publish ing them. MT. Bache indignantly defed him. The interviewer left and the Sun saying that thers had been an attempt to blackmail MT. Bache. Sun reporter went to him to ask him about the facts, but he re- fused to talk. The next morning MT. Bache found the blackmailer sitting by his side on an elevated railroad car, and the bleckmaiIer told him that the price of the letters had risen to $2OOO. An interview was finally ar ranged, and Mir. Bache was attacked just after he had taken look at the place where the interview was to occur.
 There has bean some very dissgreesble gos. sip about the contents of the letters offered to Mr. Bsche and the facts, if they have been correctly stated, are not particularly pleasing. An intimate friend of Rev. MT. Bache is reported as saying that the letters, while not compromising either of the parties so far as their personal reputation is con eerned, reflect on MT. Tyng iu his relatio n as g clergyman preaching against the worship of mammon, and on the lady as being vic- tim of the mania for specuIating in Wall street. The lady in question was an ardent speculator iu stocks and bonds, putting up very heavy margins on all sorts of speculative shares, and NIT. Tyng was the person through whom she indulged in her passion for stock gambling. Her letters to him contained in- struotions how to invest her money, and in closed checks drawn to his order. The an- swers informed her of the success or failure of her ventures, and contained cheeks for her winningg when she made any.
 So far SC good, or SO bad. The explana- ton of the case is plausible enough, and may be the true one. It leaves Mir. Tyng in & rather bad position, bus better oil than he might be. There hss been lot of wrstched gossip about the matter, and there will prob ably be much mors.