Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-10
CUTTINGS CHGCKERED CAREER
His Nomadic History as Related by
His Brothers in Michigan.


From the Ee,o York World
DETROIT, MICH, Aug. Elm the town
OF Clinton, Mich, lives Charles j. and Il.
ID. Cutting, the only brothers of Editor
Cutting, who is now figuring as an inter-
national character. The elder, Charles,
is the village clerk ana express agent,
and the younger is President of the Mich
igan Bee Keepers Association. They
went there in the Cos and have been re-
spected citizens ever since. They tell the
following story of their brothers. life:
August Cutting was born in the little
town of Hudson, N. Y, IN 1889. After
few years in the public schools, at an
early age he went into the village news
paper office, the Star, to learn the trade of
printer. In those days printers edu-
cation in the art was not considered COM
plete until he had travelled from place to
place as a 'tjour." Young Cutting rounded
out his apprenticeship in the usual way,
and the rowing habits he contracted
then have chung to him more or less
through his career. He worked
In various newspaper offices
In The East, and was on the Albany
Evening journal for several years. In
1908, about the time the family moved to
Michigan, Cutting was employed on the
Cleveland Leader. Growing tired of the
place he drifted South. The war came on,
communication between the North and
South was cut off and the family lost all
trace OF his whereabouts. Finally they
heard that he was in Nashville. where ne
had joined an independent home company
formed to protect the city. When Nash
vile was taken by the Federal forces Cut
ting returned North. From this episode
In his career has arisen the various stories
tbnf hn fI,n n Il Ti.n
and deserted II, that he belonged to
Union Missouri regiment, and deserted to
| the enemy, etc.
After his return North Cutting worked
in Cincinnati at his trade, thence coming
to Detroit where he stayed short time.
Many of the old printers of the city still
retain dim recollection Of him. From
Detroit he went to Perrysburg, o.. thence
to Toledo. At Toledo he married. The
marriage proved an unhappy one and the
couple separated, a divorce being subse-
Quently obtained. Numerous papers have
said that Cutting once resided at Clinton
and learned his tradethere. Such was not
the case. In 1865 he paid visit to his
mother and brothers in Clinton, remain
ing perhaps a week. This, and his brief
sojOurn In Detroit, constitute the only
claim Michigan has upon Cutting for
| friendship.
his steps to the growing West as a fitting
field for his energy. He was located at
Kansas City for few years, and in part
nership with man named Williams pub
lished the Daily Times. Cutting married
again at Kansas City and his wife has
lived with him since, being now in Ell
| Paso, thus disposing of the story of his
| Digamous relations with four women.
! After disastrous fire in Kansas City, in
| yuh iah oil hiC nj
erty, he went to Colorado and started a
paper in Trinidad. After some of the Vicis-
STUDIES peculiar to journalism in West
ern frontier town, Cutting left Trinidad
and set up his editorial tripod at Las
| Vegas, New Mexico. Here, about three
years ago, the brothers once more lost
sight of him, and received no intelligence
Of him until the Tribune brought them the
news of his arrest and incarceration on
Mexican soil. The brothers have opened
communication with the Ell Paso authori-
ties and expect soon to have direct intor-
nation relative to the real facts IN this
! now famous case.
From b0yhood A. X. Cutting has dis
played marked characteristics that stamp
| him as man of more than ordinary
mold. Of nervous temperament and
restless, adventurous disposition, he
| could never remain long in one channel.
| His energy pushed him to constant ac-
tivity, and his oombative nature led him
into the fields where his talents found
congeniai exercise. AS a writer he is ex-
ceptionally vigorous, fearless and bold.
Some of his experiences in border jour
nalism were characteristic OF the man.
| While at Trinidad he fought to victory the
lawless element of the town through the
columns OF his paper, when such acourse
was intensely unpopular, If not person.
al haa
been told of Cutting by those who know
| him bear out the impression that he is
just such person most likely to get into
the ENHANCEMENT he now finds himself.