St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-12-17
BAG AND STAN.
A Peculiar Compound Which the
St. Paul Evening Newspa-
per War Develops.
Arrest of B. Fl. Rugg for Opening STAN
ley WaterlOo's Nail, Contain
ing Certain Epistles.
Mr.. Waterloo and His Managing Editress
Conclude to Print chem and gets
Scoop on the Other Papers.

night The story as told by the Dag itself
is that Stanley Waterloo, the publisher, went
to St Louis, where his family still resides,
on business, and was detained three weeks
by illness. The business OF the Office was in
charge Of B. Il. Rugg, Miss
F. N. Bagby being managing editor
as she had been from the begin ming OF the
paper. During Mr. Waterloo's absence Miss
Bagby corresoonded with him, her missives
being asingular compound OF love and bust
ness. For some reason, which in the alb
sence Of the fool Killer unexplaiuable, Mr.
Waterloo punched his Bagby cor
resPondence into an envelope and addressed
i 10 himself at St Paul. This letter
fell into Riggs hands before Wsterloo's re-
turn and was opened Waterloo claims that
he (Rugg) had Photographic copies made Of
the letters and supplied them to the Di.pateh
ior Matchmaking purposes aud fearing that
they would be printed elsewhere be and
Miss Bagby concluded to get in a scoop by
printing them themselves. Nine Of these
epistles appeared in the Day Last night the
following being samples.
SUNDAY Pm
got your dear little note, and I am 80 very
homesick Tor yOn-so homesiek that IL seems
must get. 10 you somehow, Can't you hurry up
jEst little and come 70 your BAG.
ST. PAUL Nov 25, 1854.
Iwant you to come back just as quick as you
can because am 90 lonesome. / can't live
W h3ut you, aud don't ever want you to 20
away again. I didn't hear from you to-day and
II makes me sick. Please come. Your BAG
ST. PAUL, Nov. 20, 1884
Are You sicki Somehow feel ~ II you were.
W ny don't you write, IL only u line No letter
~ fr-rNnw and nufr fF Naa- Ill
You know / can't work when l don't hear from
yoa was nearly used mp the other, day butsI am
all right now, and oh, so anxious TO hear from
you. BAG.
Nov. 81, GEO p. m
] knew It. Kate just brought me your letter
Few minutes ago. and saw that you had been
i'll. Butt believe IL would be better Tor You The
relief and rest i what you need. don't like to
think Of part Of your surroundings IL seems 80
hard ana al wrong lie room is not rented and
hope you viii come-we miss you so much
and 1, more than 1 can tell. 1 am homesiek for
you. sAa.
ST. Paul, Nov. %, 1854.
wish you were here. The blizzard has mod
Grated and the keen air would do you good.
Mrs x l. saving the room for YOU Her other
daughter is here COW. shall hope TO see you
soon. think every day thai maybe you viii be
here AZ night. l waLt 10 see you 90 much-more
every minute. IL makes me feel so bad 10 think
you wanted 10 hear from me and there WAS no
letter bat know you have one by now. love
you and want you TO succeed but you will a ~
how. I'd love you anyway. BAG.
Dec, 1.
The room is being saved for you. / am so
glad. Be sure 10 get rid Of Rugg. He Is utterly
incompetent now, aud haven any use for him
now that see how he speaks about you. Please
don't let him stay here. He bluncers 30 ipexeus-
ably every day that it makes me frantic. Il wish
could know about when you viii get back We
must make the Day success. Your reputation
depends on il, and my happiness. But / still
think that you would do well TO let me take
Riggs place. l woud Ike to learn the business,
and l see already that / know good deal Of IT,
What do you sayf r NJ B.
write this feeling that you may have started
back. F.
The next letter renews her demand for
Riggs deeapitation, and concludes by saying
''if we fail now IL Is good bye to everything"
Another letter, dated Dec. 3, assures Wat
erlOo that she needs his help very much, and
adds:
l sat upon Hussey to-day. and ranted around
generally. You wonld not have objected know,
because 1 tore everything up regardless. You
must let me help you down stairs. But /
want you back, so much. Please hurry.
F. N. B.
The concluding is cheerful:
Your letters both came tonight, and they make
me rested / have been such = terror to the
Office all week, thai think they'll be glad 10 see
you back. Remove Rugg, get an advertising
man, and then on your money matters are in
shapel we shall work expecting TO accomplish
something. Won't il be pleasant We must
succeed. 1 have done the best possible since you
left. When shall look for your F. NJ. b. Il
love you.)
In publishing these letters the Day, or we
might say the parties to the correspon dence
say, ''She Miss Bagby.) under
stands the business thoroughly, and
has grown up in newspaper knowledge Of
late years side by side with Mr.. Waterloo
The two have as close relations as are right
10 exist between a married man and an I'M
married woman, aud trust and believe in
each other.''
Mr.. Waterloo appends the following certi-
fcate TO the letters:
These are the letters on which the blaekmail-
ers rely There is not human being in the
world, olaekmailer and thief though be may be,
who dare say anything against the personal char
acter or the reputation OF Miss Bagby. The
relations are clean and have always been. Her
standing and that OF her family are well known.
She herself requested the publication Of the let
tiers.
RUGG ARRESTED.
Mr.. Rugg accompanied by Hussey, the
editorial rooms about midnight to make
statement Of his side OF the case. United
States Marshal Denny arrived at the same
time, and, drawing q warrant from bis
pocket for the arrest Of Rugg, notified him
that be had been looking for him since
O'Clock.
''Ill read it to you" said the marshal.
''Let me read tn said Mr.. Rugg The
marshal handed him the document, and he
read a warrant accusing him of having
opened on, Dec. l, letter addressed to
Stanley Waterloo, Metropolitan hotel, st.
Paul"
Mr.. Rugg didn't seem to understand 1t
exactly while Hussey was very profuse in
assuring the marshal that Rugg ''would be
there" Mr.. Denny politely intimated that
he probably would as he was in his (Denny's)
charge.
Mr. Hussey, finding that bis midnight as
surauce was not a legal bail bond in Mime
sofa, rang the telephone for Capt Castles
house. II was very cold night, so cold
that the oil CONCEALED on the
wires when Castle responded. As he
resides mile from the GLOBE Office it
wasn't convenient for him TO make a mid
night trip. It might freeze his oleagenous
nose of, and no oil inspector could be ex-
pected 10 take such risks. So Castle, who
had been shivering at the other end of the
wire, until his chAttering teeth rang the tele-
phone bell, "hung up" and wrapped couple
Of oil barrels around him 10 get warm, the
GLOBE placed dripping pan under the tele-
phone to keep the grease from the floor, and
the Newspaper and official visitors departed