Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-04-04
SEMI-LOCAL NEWS.
A Scoop.

n Scoop.
Mention has been made of Roy L..
McCardells recent accession to the
staff of the New York SIN.
1t is now the JOURNALS pleasure to
record briefly an achievement in the
line of getting news which places Roy
in the front rank of daring inter
viewers.
1t became necessary for the Sun to
get a picture from the distrlct-attorney
of Staten 1sland-a picture which that
official had frozen onto with death like
grip.
The job was assigned to Roy.
Downing suit of corduroy, fore
and-aft cap, smoking a blackened clay
pipe upside down. eyeglasses, and
taking on Welsh Hill accent mixed
with a New Hope infection, he APP
peared before Messrs. Fitzgerald, at
torney, and Chief of Police Blake, pre-
tending to be a young Englishman
knowing nearly all about the Rutting-
err Wright murder. He told them of
a big English thug named Joe Welsh
who helped Wright kill Ruttinger and
substantiated the story by exhibiting
tintype of Jimmie Baxter, of Eek
hart; Henry FRESHMAN, of Frostburg !;
John Mccain, of Vale Summit, Joe
Welsh, of Eckhart, and himself, taken
in Il group. Pressman, it is said, look
ed like Wright, the suicide, and the
officials believed it was him. The
World came out next morning with a
full account of the interview, giving
Welsh and Pressman's pictures as
big Joe, the thug" and William
Wright, the murdered man, from the
tintype furnished by "Walters," Roy's
assumed name. The World spoke of
"Walters" as ''the mysterious young
Englishman who has helped solye the
mystery" Here is a sample of Roy's
talk:
We've 'ad our little time, We know, in
Whitechapel, hand hevery Hamerican hi
ever saw told ME how quick the blooming
Hamerican bobbys would put the Ripper in
quod. Now they cawn't find hout ow a
couple O poor blokes came to their deaths.
So hid give 'em a string
The object of Roy's adventure, as
intlmated, was to get possession of a
picture of German hunting party
then in the custody of the district
attorney. On this plate the true
figures of both Ruttinger and Wright
appear. 1t was found among Rut-
finger. effects. When this critical
point was reached "Walters" told
Fitzgerald that his sister, oyer at his
brother-in-law's in New Jersey, had
also met Ruttinger and Wright on
shipboard, and that he wanted the
loan of the picture to show her with a
view of obtaining her identification.
He promised to return it at night
when he proposed to give the attorney
more clues. So plausible was the
story, the attorney yielded. An hour
later the much coveted photo was in
the Suns engraving department. Two
hours later, true to his promise, Roy
returned the picture to the attorney.
The next morning the papers rang
with big Joe" "Clue at Last" "Our
District Attorney a Sleuth Hound"
IA Mysterious Young Englishmau
Places the Crime" etc. Next, at p.
M. the Evening Sun came out with a
full account of the lengthy ruse adopt
ed and carried out by Roy to obtain
the "German Hunting Party" picture.
And with this exposure down came Fitz-
gerald and Blake from their perches of
glcry and pride. Not only ii full ac-
count of the interview, but-horror of
horrors "a large cut of the hunting