Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-09-26
by sve~is It t efnore,

ment. for his chance TO distingr,,,
himself had not yet come.
| 1t was the scoop of the town
The Blazer with its vociferous ba,d
| lines leered at the sergeant before h..
men had come ir. "A wandering nigbt.
hawk had found the body and a detpI
lad gone for 1t He rang up the Blaro~
Office to know about it, but newsnan.r
office after the last form is down is
| like the echoing tomb. He sent 1lair
| clothes man around to see about it an.
roy had gone Where was he? Room.
ed uptown somewhere Two hours
! later the night editor was pulled fror,
| his bed to explain. "Space-writer
brought it in-don't know him--neysr
| saw him before-story was all right
wasn't it?'
well what in the blankity-blank.
blank are you up here, pulling me ont
of bed for" And that was all they
could get out of Gilroy.
1t was on morning nearly two
months after the big scoop.
The Blazer promised to be FROSTY
again. Gilroy was muttering: Wish
that scoop-fiend would show up again
with something as hot as that last
screed of his"
AS if in answer to his wish the mvs-
terious individual glided in. more wan
more seedy aud more wild-eyed than
before. He had another good scoop.
Tor V sir. only a ""
This time it was yachting accident
which had happened at nearby sum-
mer resort. Ten people were drowned.
oil wv n for al
ktropho with news in every line. Gilrov
fairly danced when he saw it, He pull
ed out the V and another dollar with it
He walked home on air that morning
singing praises of the scoop-f1end and
his cwn good judgment.
When he awoke from peaceful slum-
F, bers and languidly reached for the noon
edition of a rival sheet which had
, flown in over the transom to his as
constituent, dismay and almost nausea
he read an array of biting sarcasm to
the effect that the yachting accident
story published in a morning paper
was a fearful cold-booded fake. Not a
line of truth in it. The people alleged
to have been drowned were all alive
and we'll. The yacht which was said
to have gone down with all on board
was not even in commission.
Gilroy wrestled with his emotions
for some time before he had the cour-
age to go out and look the world in the
face.
About a month afterwards. Giroy
found upon his desk manuscript from
the 'scoop-fiend." Upon the outside
was scrubbed This is all right. Yours
without the ""
Gilroy read the story, 1t was an ac-
count of suicide; of the rash deed Of
an unknown man who had jumped
headlong from the Eagle building, ten
stories to the street at 2:30 that same
morning and it was then hardly one
o'clock.
Gilroy pitched the manuscript into
bottom drawer and it was soon far
from his thoughts. He was not the
man to be caught twice by some crazy
hobo, not he.
But in the rival sheet that noon he
read:
MYSTERIOUS SUICIDES.
Crazed by Morphine John Bond, Once
Famous English Journalist,
Jumps from Eagle Build
ing.
In his pocket found confession Of muir
der of Waterman in order to sell
story of crime to newspaper.
Gilroy reached for the brandy.
Here's to you, Bond. Crazy as you
We're, I'm worse"
The Blazer published some facts in
the suicide case which the other papers
didn't have. The editor was pleased to
think that he didn't destroy that last
communication from the scoop-flend.
And he vowed he would write a story
about the case some day. And he did.
Here it is.