The Prescott daily news., 1907-04-11
THE REPORTERS
 STORY
Clever Detective Work
 That Proved Fruitless.

'I think 1 must have been born on Friday" said the disconsolate report CT, as he dropped into a chair neal the window in a downtown hotel re gently.
 "A blue envelope in the mail boz, I suppose?" said his brother scribe.
 No, l was not fired-at least, 1 was on the pay roll when left the office said the first speaker.
 For two days" he continued, T have been turning every angle to dig up story. To-day l got the first line on 1t, and I worked like a trojan. | Ten minutes ago 1 met the fellow who | knows the whole story. He laughed and showed me some newspaper clip | pings-the yarn was published three weeks ago."
 How long have you been in the newspaper gamer" asked the other man, as he slid little further down in the comfortable chair.
 Three years" was the reply, but this Is the first time I ever got on such sidetrack as this"
 Cheer up, old fellow. Let me tell you story-a true one-that hap pened to me five years before you be- came cub
 "One afternoon" he continued. "an anonymous letter came to the city editor. It told of woman held pris oner in Chinatown. Beyond stating that the writer had seen her in third-story window, and, further, that the writer shrank from publicity there was no clew to the writer. Parrish, who has long since quit the newspa- per game, was assigned to the story with me-"
 What do you make of this letter.? said he, as we stood at Harrison and Clark streets.
 Past me- said I, ready to get rid of the assignment.
 Hook again, said he. Cant you see that 1t was written by a woman? It Is written with stub pen. It is written on business stationery and the woman who wrote it is not accus- toned to writing with a stub pen. It was written from an office building, from an office that is on floor lower down than the tenth floor"
 How do you make that out? said l.
 "'Well, the stationery you will al- low. The finger print shows the girl got ink on her fingers, then left its imprint when she folded the letter. At the top here is about one-third of the last line on the letter head. Note the left end of that line-three figures or three letters are partly left on the margin. Ninety to one those are fig ures denoting the room number. Do you follow me-?
 'I replied that I did.
 "'Now, three figures being the con- lecture, the room must be between the first and the tenth floors of the build ing from which this letter came. The rest of that line shows seven type faces. Naturally. let us conclude that is the remnant of the buildings name -a seven-letter name.'
 "'Go ahead said I.
 "'Chinatown's back windows can be seen from Dearborn street only. The writer of this letter is employed in an office in building the name of which contains seven letters-that building is on the west side of Dearborn street and also north of Harrison street
 True enough, but how are you going to find the building and the room and the girl who wrote the note?
 "'We are going to make canvass of Dearborn street for building with seven letters in it's name. A very easy job, inasmuch as we have only one block to cover. This paper is peculiar blue. Janitors sell waste pa per, you know, and when we locate the building we locate the janitor Ask him from what office paper similar to this has come.
 "'Clever idea said I.
 ITO locate the building was an easy matter. A half dollar got the infor- nation from the janitor. There were four rooms in the building from which paper of such tinge had come. One of these rooms had window with a west view and vas on the eighth floor. Tn that room we found young wo- man of perhaps 23. Parrish and I walked in. He did not nince words with the girl.
 Kindly point out to us the window in which you saw that girl-a prison CT in Chinatown
 "The young woman gasped. But she was not to know how we located her. When assured that she would