Milford chronicle., 1885-06-05
REV. YORK LETTER.

MN AOlth LII ALhs
How many people who sit down in the morn.
ing and carelessly scan the newspaper while
they SIP their coffee and MUNICH their toast, ever
pause to think what a wonderful thing modern
newspaper Isl Go through the Office Of the great
dailes here and in them you encounter scores Of
young men, keen, bright enthusiastic, who have
cast their lives with the press. Hundreds drift
into reporting from the different professions; few
ever leave it alive. They unite in themselves
all the attributes Of Briereus aud Argus, the gods
Of hundred eyes and hundred arms. They
are a strange lot these reporters, wild, daring,
dasling fellows, with no more sense Of danger
than a wooden Indian. All that you have to do
with New York reporter, is to say news"
and at that magic word hunger, thirst, fatigue
AID suffering are forgotten-and il it were nee.
essary to go to the North Pole be would start at
a moments warning. without packing his grip
sack-eyen if he happened to have one. There
is nothing yeur genuine reporter loves so much
as a good, knotty subject the tougher and more
mysterious the better. Some year ago, when
Chastine Cox murdered the laudlady Of a fash
onahle boarding house. by choking her TO
DEATH there was absolutely no clew left; the
murder seemed to be one ofthose uniathomable |
mysteries that the judgment.day alone could un.
ravel. The entire detective force of the city was
turned upon the case; theory after theory was
woven and exploded. II seemed as if the au- |
thortes had made up their minds to hunt down
the lady's husband kindly Old gentleman, who, |
in addition to the grief Of losing his wife, was
subjected TO the ignominy Of being branded as
her murderer. After days Of suspense, a young
Boston reporter. with only the fAintesr shadow
Of cew, followed it mp 50 successfully, that he
did what the assembled detectives Of the United
States could not do, and hunted the murderer to
the foot of the gallows. A few years previous
to that, we were thrown into the widest excite.
ment one day by beautiful young woman
throwing red pepper into the eyes OF a large
manufacturer down town, and when he was
blinded ,cowhiding him within an inch of his liie
She declared to the applauiing crowd that the
wretch had employed her in his fac
tory, and had there attempted to wreck her viz. ]
tue. The wretched man, blind and helpless,
could not escape, whichever way he turned the
crowd pushed him back till his face was covered
with welts and his clothes were cut in pieces with
The rawhde. The scandal became so public
that his customers all left him, and the man was
ruined. The loss OF property was bad enough, I
but the loss of friends and character was more
han he could bear. When all seemed lost, the
Ubiquitous reporter appeared on the scene. and
le gave him some clues to the lady's history. q
they followed the tangled thread from year to O
'eaT, from State to State, and across the ocean G
0 Europe, from there to the penal colony in Van /
)ieman's Land and back again to San Francisco, y
nd finally to New York, where this innocent y
irgin was assaulted. Aud it was discovered -
hat this poor, young unsOphsticated creature -
ad lived with seven different men-that she 4
'as the mother of four egitmate children and l.
Dung as she was, had passed seven years Of her d
me in prison for THEFT and blaclmail. and the "
DOR injured creature who had enlisted the sym Il
lthes Of the entire community, and had en-. y
aged herself as an innocent young maiden 10 be u
arned to an excellent and worthy young man, u
as safely landed in States prison for tour years.
What strange fatality is it that brings about
of like crimes and like accidents! -
nee the death OF Prof. Ojlum there have been
rec attempts to leap from the Brooklyn Bridge.
nee the suicide of Miss Bedient last Saturday.
iSS uthel young WOlcA nave SLOt tlenSelTess
ID since the fall Of Buddensiek's houSes,we have
d two other terrible disasters of the same
nd, one in Brooklyn and the other in Jersey
ty,
Tie weeks work of our police has been a
cd one, and it gives me great pleasure to re
I'd the departure Of Hungry Joe, the bunco
IN, to State-Prison; for years tins notorious
eal has detied the police, and carried on his
ndng games This Is the individual who =
,tured Oscar Wilde, Charles Frances Adams
numbers Of other celebrated men. He flew
the highest game and generally got them.
attempt to rob an English gentleman brought
a TO grief. And for four years, at least, the q,
will be rid OF him. Il has been a bad week
the confidence operators. Ellen Peck, who l
ndled Bahbitt out of So 900, and whose rob u
les altogether have amounted to nearly 5000.
was convicted OF forgery and the chances are ri
the best part Of her future life will be passed IA
de prison walls. As an adrot swindler. II is WI
btul il her equal is alive on the globe today CIC
her conviction this week promises a long i'm. co,,
and for the time closes one of the
Il remarkable criminal lives Of the century. we
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