The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-02-12
SPOILED HIS STORY.
Zeal for Truth was the Reporters
Ruin

Zeal for Truth was the Reporters
Newspaper reporters are sometimes
thrown against strange experiences in
getting the news that other folk COM
| fortably read next morning. But, be-
| lieving himself in a fair way to obtain
narrative which no other news wri-
ter is aware of, the reporter Is willing
to go sleepless and foodless and to un-
dergo all kinds of peril in order that
by all means he may get his piece Of
exclusive news.
| Such a man was Ezra Hemming,
who worked on a western paper--one
of the kind which would now be de-
nominated as "yellow"-and frequent
ly thrilled his town with startling sto-
ries of fact. Hemming had a reputa-
ton for alertness which was second to
none, and as he had a large circle of
friends who made it their business to
inform him upon privately known af-
fairs he was seldom at the short end
of an exclusive story. One day John
ooSo' VIM was tne 9iei 49, " 80
| ~ captured d morse tniel Mho was
oaoly "anted by community IN tiie
interior Oh Inc stale. lhe uepu'y iiolii
the county .he oiiiciais VI "iiie,i "eie
after the thief came down to the me-
tropolis, and in his conversation with
Boyd intimated that there would be
lynching when he got home with his
prlsoiier' Dosu 'oiu ihsi,iiiiiie :.
threatening aspec. VI .liiss' anu VIC
reporter hao d iolis lain WIN 'ne uep
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ins, an iioui WHICH pieoi'tuet .ne po'
slolilty Oh sooo STORY iieiiiiiiins
was d man u resources 'iiousn' "iiu
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the uelaiis VI ehe eoiiiins eeeu. i
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column aecouli' u ZIG ~ me- .ii
'ioiiiiis 'iie NAMES =. y oiiiiiiee
Gems preseii. anu auuliis iouiiaii ellu
orilaiiieii.a'ioii. ~ s'ie'oi, ou' ~ IN
pooiiis iehs ~ iie Iau'ei oii0 i'i.'h'
"hom ne was prudent enough 10 oesls-
hate as uhhhoWh' 70 mount DON
ana MAKE ah appear III DENIAL u 'ne
culPll.'
Despite tne prayer VI iiissihaoli >
teiiuei -iieaileu auvoeale' ho"eNe,'
f1eIhihlne "ro'e' the FARMERS VINO
liau sulleleo rom ms oepleoa'ioiis NJ
SISTED on Wreaklng vengeance ana
ne went On III Ina. eliail ioi seNeiai
pages iiiahihs liie iii'ei ee7eioh +"
strong point.
ne eApia'iieo 70 oia"iolu' ei'e cry
eullor' lhac there was ~ ioup. VI 'iie
.hlhs coming oul JUST 'S ile hao writ
zen H. put " We sure ne "ouiu WI
les " Nv iioiA ing eee''ioi. Witt
ms tram reacheo ,he lo"h' lol ne
planned 10 accompany 'he oepu's'
AZ three ocioch ~ 'iie mo- iiihs
ora"lora receiSeu 'iiie Juoiie'iie ouiie
| LII.
big thlrs. rive nuhoieu peopie.
Mlle or more Vi rope. 1No" ieaoeu ioi
Tall sycamore Tree.
ana JUST DIS Inc foreman was seiiu
ing TO the pressroo1h the page WIN
Hemmlnss glorious exclusive slorS'
came TINS announcement
II S all OIL 1hey re not going 10 40
Hemmlng came pack LOOKING IKE d
madman- FOR TWO Gays ne roVeo
around stopping at odd tlmes TO putt
MS heao against something haru' AL
last ne was lnduced by CRAWFORD TO eX-
PLAIN.
When we got there, ne sald, IT
was sure thlng. They mad IL all
ready, ana TOOK Hlgglnson away from
the deputy with YELL Ihen sent
my hrst bulletin. They rushed him to
the sycamore and were just about to
swing him up when 1T occurred to me
that 1t would spoil the story II some
body didn't rise up and make an APP
peal for mercy for the thief, L waited,
hoping for the usual intercession, till
else showed sign of talking for him,
l jumped up on something and started
| in on it myself. | lust wanted to make