The herald., 1894-01-29

planned the rest OF 1t. we TOOK car
riage and drove to the Herald Office IN
der high speed, and told the story to
the city editor. He ordered me to go
and break into the cottage. | demanded
q second man and Sullivan was sent
with me. We went round into Division
street and for 500 bought locksmith's
stock of keys. The cottage we had
noticed had two entrances-one up a
short fight OF stairs, the other in the
basement. AS we rode out Sullivan
and l drew lots as to which entrance
each would try. Sullivan drew
the upper end and l the basement.
You will remember that up to this
time We did not know who owned the
cottage, or whether or not it was as
deserted as it seemed. We put out the
lights OF our carriage and approached
the place as quietly as possible. 1t so
happened that the basement door wac
not difficult to open. and while Sullivan
was testing his armload of keys made
an entrance. The place was as dark as
q pot of ink. | had no lamp, but by
scratching matches found my way up
stairs and to the front door, and let Sui
Ivan in. With other matches-the
finding Of which by officers afterwards
on the stairs and through the halls has
figured in evidence at the trial as having
been left by the murderers-we discov-
cred the old lamp, and with its light
the broken chair, the marks of blood in
the room where the murder was done,
and all the rest of it that has become SO
familiar since.
1--WE came away convinced that we had
discovered the place where DR.. Cronin
was murdered. The next morning the
Herald alone of all the Chicago papers
introduced the now famous Carlson cot
tage on the scene, giving to the police
also the information for the first time.
This, consider, WAS my most important
SCOOP"
IRVING ]. LEWIS, REPRESENTING THE CHI
CAGo TIMES.
Irving J. Lewis is one of three bro
theirs, all journalists, and all on the
Times. They started in life with the
intention of being great lawyers, and
all studied to that end and reached
point where they put out sign in
Cleveland, o., reading: Lewis, Lewis,
Lewis & Co.
But that was as far as they got on that
tack, says one of the newspaper party
who knew them. They didn't make
money and soon split up the firm. One
went to lassoing cattle on the plains, an
other went to steamboating on the
Mississippi, and the other made an at
tempt at the newspaper business. He
succeeded; that was AL. He is now
famous in newspaperdom as "Dsn
Quinn" The others after time gray
itated back through different routes to
the same vocation and the Times.
"Bill'' is now night editor on that paper
and AL is Washington correspondent,
while Irving is all-round man, Just now
out to do the fair.
"The scoop which / consider my clean
eat piece of work." said the latter, twas
done some six years sgo for the Cleve-
land Plain Dealer. | was out on gen.
eral skirmish in the suburbs for election
returns. Fastening to the Office at night
l was attracted by crowd OF noisy Be-
hemians in a dark side street and
stopped to see what was up. found
that murder, one of the most atrocious
in my experience, had been just COM
mitted. Two brothers, Bohemians, had
tot to quarreling. They were strikers.
the Bohemians OF the district were out
on strike. Two brothers had got into
a quarrel in discussing the matter and
one had taken a Ratchet and literally
chopped the other to pieces, making a
CHASTITY story. They were all thoroughly
ignorant-did not know what to do in
The matter and simply allowed the body
go lie there while the other wandered of.
The police were not notified and they,
as well as the rest of the Woodland the
other newspapers-did not hear of it
until they read about it under big head
lines in the Plain Dealer. That was my
king SCOOP"
Mr.. Lewis has been with the Times of
Chicago for some years and been identi-
fed with much of the big news affairs of
that city.
GEORGE BOILING, WHO is HERE FOR THE
CHICAGO INTER'ocEAN.
zone night last July the telegraph
editor came into the city ROOM" said
George Boiling OF the Inter Ocean.
"Boys," said he. "the csravels are COM
ing down the lake." This was after
midnight. At a. m. was on the train
for Milwaukee, arriving there at 5
O'Clock. The boats were scheduled to
stop at Milwaukee, but owing to fear
ful gale were supposed to be " ind-b bound
somewhere up the lake. l waited there
all day while rumors that they were lost
brought in scores of anxious kilograms
from Chicago. At sunset the steam
yact OF rival paper arrived with an
artist and six newspaper men on board.
These gentlemen leaned over the rail
and made remarks of fretting nature
to me. amusing themselves until IL
O'Clock, when they turned in. The large
waiting newspaper contingent followed.
AS the night was too wild for boats to go
out, also turned in, but shortly
after arose and arming myself
with a bottle OF red liquor and a
box of cigars to cheer the hardy mar
liner, went again to the pier. l hired
the only tug on the river to go and hunt
for the missing caravela. Another
financial transaction ensued and
shipped as a deckhand, it being con-
trary TO rules to take passengers. We
went up the lske15 miles in the teeth of
the gale, the tug captain threatening to
go back every few moments. Finally
they we're sighted, laboring heavily. |
got aboard, secured talk from Captain
Conchas on the weather, while the tug
picked them up. On the way back l
bribed the captain to let go the tow and
put me ashore, which he did two miles
from telegraph Office. ran the two
miles through the pouring rain and got
my dispatch On the wires in time to
catch the last edition, with nothing to
spare. The other papers, including the
one with steam yacht and seven jour