Bisbee daily review., 1906-05-13
LOW Te<As AVENGED TREASON TO THE TRUTH.

q 1 The story about women's fingers cut off for the rings has come from Frisco, and 1t was published fs Den yer. have been Iooling for it. The first newspaper correspondent to send out the ghastiy tale about wumen's fingers cut on by thieves met tragic punishment. It waa at the Galveston cataeiysm. t. F. q don't remember the mans name. He was . New Orleans newspaper re- tportef Fhos by ~onderful forsnne. found himself the first outside writer to reach the death-laden town. Con trary to the newspaper mems nobly usual loyalty to their papers. this chap threw down the New Orleans journal he represented and offered his valu- | able first story to the New York Her aid. He knew that. in such emergen- cies. the great metropolitan newspa- pers will pay enormous prices for big beats on their competitors. And his calculation was correct, The New York Herald wired him a stunning sum of money to Houston and appointed him on its general stafY Up to that point the fellows treason l to his paper had been splendid stroke. He had better job and more money than ever before in his life and he was swollen with the desire to cinch his good fortune with startlingly good work.
 Some men can't conceive of vivid ! and emphatic writing through the pro cesses of sincerity and truth. Their idea of striking things is the ghastly I and the hideous. The thought that | noble deeds are more vivid than the horrid does not enter their minds. And such was the process of this chaps reasoning. Disloyal to his paper, he was a traitor to truth.
 'The truth that thousands of naked women and children gave colossal pa thos to the chaos, and that beauty and l refinement cluttered the gutters and hung in the very boughs of shattered trees was not enough. He sent to the
 Herald the story that ghouls were dishonoring the bodies of the women and that the gentle forms, priceless in their purity, were being mutilated for the jewels on their hands. The Her aid used the story.
 'Tn a few days the horror came back to the scene. Texan indignation is a terrible thing. The traitor had not counted what his lie-for it was an | unspeakably shocking lie-would cost He did not know what Texan rage was. Trigged out in jaunty white duck, with pith helmet on his head bought in Houston with the price ! of his treason-the fellow returned to Galveston feeling and looking like conquer;ng hero. ..
 He was a handsome young man strong and erect as king. For while he did not comprehend why peo- queerly and gave him wide room. Per haps 1t was awe over his wonderful achievement. He was suddenly unde- ceived.
 "A squad of the Dallas Rough Rid CTS strode into the lobby, their sabers changing on the stone floor. The off cer in command walked up to the mag nificent correspondent and unsheathed his saber as if he were about to cut of the mans head. You are under arrest said the officer chokingly.
 Surrounded by soldiers who did not say word, but only stared with msrciless eyes, the prisoner was brought before an aide of the adjutant general of Texas. The aide-de-camp was a newspaper man himself. He gazed for a moment at the prisoner and said: Its my duty to say some thing to you--and it is useless for you to reply
 Then, aside to a sergeant: If this man opens his mouth, knock, him on the head Next the officer read a message from Galveston citizens to the New York Herald, protesting in Tax- as style that the ghoui story was false and the reply of the Herald, express ing extreme regret over it's pubnca- tion and authorizing the proper au- thorities to deprive the correspondent of his credentials and no longer recog Eize him as representing the paper. Next a telegram from the New Orleans paper telling of the mans perfidy and withdrawing it's credentials.
 T would not and could not repeat what the officer then said to the pris- oner. Finishing an arraignment that would have burned the soul of Judas, the officer said to the troopers: Take him to the water front-my only or. der is that he shall not remain in Gal weston one moment longer than neces- Sary'