Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-20
Chief Of Police Letcher Lusby
ExOnerated and COmpli-
mented and the Press
all I'm the COnsOmme.

HuCItCNA tunnNn tlMC
all i'm the COnsOmme.
1 have just received from Chief
of Police Letcher Lusby, the re-
port of the Committee that inves-
tigated the charges that were IN
sinuated against him by the Lex
ingtOn Press, in terms so strong
that they were, by the public, re-
garde as preferred; and that by a
party whose official position would
warrant that he kaeD whereof he
affirmed.
The insinuations of the Press
against Mr.. Lusby were the talk
of the city for day or two after,
and 80 general was the expression
of sentiment that l heard, that Mr..
Lusby had defaulted, and had now
been exposed, that though 1 had
never, in my life, known anything
against Chief Lusby that was not
thoroughly honorable, 1 admit,
that by the boldness of the insinu-
ations of the Press, l thought
that his was but another of the
many surprising instances in which
another man had gone wrong; and
though Chief Lusby has always
been a friend to me and a patron
of my paper, the allusion that l
made to him and Duncan in the
Blade showed that l thought that
where there was so much smoke
there was very likely to be some
fire.
If Chief Lusby, feeling the in
justice of the insinuatiOns against
him, had imprudently gotten mad,
and done some violence to either
of the Duncans, there would have
been thousands of people who
would have said that such conduct
indicated that he had been caught
up with. As it was he remained
quiet and undemOnstrative, and
there were many who said that
that indicated his admission of the
Justice of the insinuations made by
The Eressa which insinpations Were
most ingeniously, and plausibly
put, as those of one whose devO-
ton to the interests of the public
constrained him to speak words
detrimental to another that gave
him pain to utter.
Now a committee of which j.
B. Simrall was Chairman, he being
the most competent man in Lex
ington perhaps for the duty, has
Systematically Investigated the in
situations made by the Press
against Chief Lusby, the editor of
the Press being present in person,
and by counsel, and not only was
every suspicion of fraud by Chief
Lusby, thoroughly refuted, but
the committee went further and
paid Chief Lusby a high tribute
for the faithfulness and compe-
tency with which he had discharged
his duties.
Now here is an instance where
the reputation of a man of that
kind has been in the hands of a
beardless boy just out of school,
with all the freshness ofbread and
butter and bibs and fuckers and
states and spelling books still ex-
haling from his brain in the early
morn of his irresponsible life.
When l began the Blade this
pink CT journalistic adolescence,
who had never learned that an
editor could not shield himself un-
der the aegis of his delicate years,
in his zeal to squelch me reached
out like a regular Octopus, and
was going to take all my friends
into his insatiate esophagus.
Old gray bearded Major B. G.
Thomas who has one of the kind
est and gentlest natures of any
man in Fayette county is reported
to have gone up into the office of
the Press for the purpose of i'm
pressing some moral precepts upon
the mind of the senior Duncan in
a kind of a grown up kindergarten
object lesson style.
Upon inquiry it was found that
the elder Duncan was non est in
Uentus The old Major asked who
was responsible for what appeared
in the paper in the absence of the
senior Ducan, and the roseate
youth that has lately blasted Chief
of Police Lusby, replied that he
was. The Major smiled upon
him as benignantly as Santa Claus,
and saying to him 81 would just
as soon strike my sister as to
strike you,' he bid him kindly
"good morning aud walked down
stairs.
1t will be remembered that
when the plans had all been per-
tected, and the apparatus arranged
it was a child in its fathers arms
that blew up "Hell Gate" at New
York.
Not only is newspaper not a
thing to be intrusted into the
hands of children, but the law
should require that every editor
should be financially responsible,