Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1897-07-18
Reporters VS. Detectives,

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The successful p~nrav.liug + IT,,
murder OF William & / i.is p4 in
New York by tt" journal vas me u,
the greatest fea = o! re. ortnriai detect
I've work in Il. r,st.,, OF ur.ali~m.
When the uniuriGiti"d aut diymem-
berei remains Of the murdered man
were first discovered, the journal
placed t~wenty-four OF the h+st report
ers on the case aud it then became a
race between the five thousand police:
men and two hundred detectives of the
department to see who should first law
Its hands on the guilty person.
The d~ismeMbered trunk Of the MUIR
dered man found floating in the river
vas wrapped in a thin piece Of oil
cloth. 1t was Of a red and yellow pat
tern and had a ragged edge. This
was the only clew. The Journal
printed a fac-simile of the otlcloth in
colors and the twenty-four reporters
were assigned 10 various details GOV.
erlug he whole field OF
H. A. Kimbail, w. 8. LLOYD and
Bob Davis, formerly Of this city, were
assigned the work Of tracing tur Oil
cloth and George Arnold was detailed
to trace up ell the mysterious disap-
~pearances that had occurred ten DAYS
prior to the discovery of the remains
of the murdered man.
The three men VINO had the sales of
the peculiar oil cloth to trace secured
the country until they found that such
a piece OF cloth with a ragged edge
had been sold to Mrs. Mack. They
questioned her and from her lying,
evasive answers they felt satisfied that
she was the party to watch. =, evalso
learned that she had Quarrela1 with
her lover, William Guldeusppe, and
that be had disappeared. They tele-
phOned thia to the Journal office and
an hour later they got word from
George Arnold thai he had identified
the murdered man. He had grown
weary OF searching and at midnight
had gone to d Ham" am bath estab-
llshment to get a bath, a rub d WI
and a little sleep. when he eve: heard
some 1ubbers talking Of the disap-
pearance OF one of Tie help. The re-
porter asked for a description OF him
and they said he had tattoo marks on
his breast This was the man heyond
a doubt and he also learned that he
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phoned the Journal office and the
news from the men who had found
the who bought the oilcl0th
drifted in about the same tim4 and
the two clews Ginning from aifreren,
directions dovetaiiad together. The
city editor of the journal then wired
the police to arrest Mrs. Mack. The
reporters who had located her took
rooms III her house as dodgers.
The police were told to "grt a move
on. as h was preparing for fl ght.
Inc woman Was arrested AMI proved
to be the guilty party. The twenty
four reporters who were deta,Ird 10
unravel this mystery left no phase of
1t u uched and once more. as they
have often done before, showed The
police department Of New York that
WHEN the police KEEP news of crimes
from the press, for fear that the
publicity twill enable the guilty per-
sons to escape tina. they are doing a
very foolish thing.
"A staff OF w~ile-awake reporters with
their modern methods of work ARE
worth a thousand sleepy detectives
snch as are laying about the derarr-
lnents OF large cities. The Journal
10 Its account OF the affpir, prints the
Of all the reporters detailed
On the job.