The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-07

alone, too, because his boss, the "psy-
chic epileptic,' was resting. He rest
ed at his country home IN Lakeville,
and as n guest at Bar Harbor and at
his city home in Rutgers streets. He
rested all over the country. He was
help "Poor Jim, f" for when he was not
resting he was campaigning, which is
form of resting which makes other
people tired. The psychic epileptic -
campaigned for Office in the North, in
the South, in the East and in the
West. They say he is the greatest
campaigner since, a man by the name
called him. The psychic epileptc" is
very officious man, and has no
sense of humor. He even takes him
self seriously, but "Poor Jim - is good
natured. " Poor jim" would "kill
you-with laughter
Just to show you how clever Poor
jim is and what a fine lawyer, will
III his private capacity, that Mr.. Rice's
will which left all that money to Mr..
Patrick was a forgery, Ism e "Poor
Jim " smart' And then he put on his
hat and went around to the District
Attorneys 8 Office and in his official ca
pacity began to collect evidence to
prove this theory,
This is how he did it. There was Mr..
Patrick, the two men who witnessed
the will and myself, and "Poor Jim -
put us on trial at once to prove the
Forgery. | don't mean in court before
Judge and jury. We had not even
been arrested yet; 1 refer t!o, the ''saf-
"Poor Jim invented the saffron
trial 1t is very simple. In New
York they have newspapers called yel
low journals, and their reporters eat
out Of the District Attorneys hands.
How Press Handled Matter.
Well, it WASH U long before the yel-
low journals We're printing the state
ments which "Poor Jim - prepared for
them every half hour. No one IN the
single minute. The young men in
| polka dotted socks and fancy vests
| hardly had time TO smoke their cigar
| cites they were so busy working up
stories about the new and important
evidence against us. The way these
newspapers handled the subject was
caution. Great big headlines on the
first page, which were changed dozen
times during the day, The story was
! told on the second page and told over
again on the third page, and the whole
| paper was filed with our, pictures
| faxed ones Then on the fourth page
were printed a lot Of statements signed
|
about the case These were the opinions
of specialists and other old women who
make it their business to give advice
to people, aud everything they wrote
was dead against us. IT was cheap
wov TO get their names and pictures IN
! 10 the paper, and they worked it for all
| il was worth Those were great days Tor
Beatrice Black. Winnifrcd Fairfax, Ella
Diy and Dorothy Wheeler.
UfPoor JIM called this the - drag
net Of publicity which means that 1t
| cot the public interested and down on
ms. and It's from this very public that
thc iurv is to be drawn afterward,
! This was a snap for 81 Poor Jim,' be-
cause. in his official capacity as an AS
s;stant District Attorney. he could say
and nnblish things for which, III hls pri'
vate capacIty, he would be arrested.
Then a price was put upon our heads
Rewards for alleged missing evidence
were offered by those yellow Journals.
The only one who got any reward was
the man who sold red ink for the head
lines. but they were Joy to eranks
anil professional identifers while they
lasted Every now and then some fool
,yould come to "Poor Jim s office and
saw, WLook here, Mr., Assistant District
Attorney. YOU have made mistake.
ym said $50 and So about MIR, Pat-
rick Now ] know that isn't true, be
cause - They never got any ,tur-
tLcr. You should have seen how Foor
JimD sent those ducks about their busi'