Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-01-20
EVENING NEWS
CATCHES THIEF
Local Paper Falls Into Trap
Laid for 1t and Prints
Fake" Story Yesterday.
FROM NEWS lsT EDITION
Otto Swenbor Reversed Reads
Rob News" "--Exposes Dirty
Methods of Contemporary.
FROM NEWS lST EDITION

For months past the Perth Anboy
Chronicle has been buying the first
edition of the EVENING NEWS daily
and stealing from 1t its best stories.
To-day the EVENING NEWS is In a
position to expose the dirty and con-
temptible methods used by our con-
temporary to obtain q large part of
Tits news. Yesterday the EVENING
NEWS published a deliberate flake"
story for the purpose of tricking the
Chronicle into stealing 1t. Our
contemporary swallowed the bait
| and not suspecting the ruse In store
| for it, bought our first edition as
usual, rewrote the story and printed
lit in their second edition. No good,
| live, reliable, up-to-date newspaper
today uses such lowdown and despic-
able methods to obtain matter for it's
columns. The Chronicle has proved
by it's actions that 1t Is willing to
stoop almost to anything to gain its
ends. A real newspaper would be
ashamed to even think of such 4
rotten practice.
Apology to News Readers.
Before we go into detail as to how
we tricked the thief, we wish to
apologize to the EVENING NEWS
readers for publishing fabrication.
| We did not .-it to mislead you, but
to catch our unworthy contemporary.
Deeply as we regret 1t, We are COM
PEELED at this time to take notice of
the Chronicles actions toward u.s.
All Its petty attacks on us through
editorial and news columns we have
| ignored, deeming them unworthy OF
the slightest attention, but now that
we are In a position to expose one of
| the Chronicles vile ways of obtain
! ing news, we feel that in justice to
ourselves we should let our readers
know how our columns are rif1ed by
the King street pickpocke and
| lpickpocket seems an appropriate
name for 1t. The EVENING NEWS
| is proud OF its news service and in
tends to protect it to the limit.
While tt Is common practice for
evening papers to use stories that
have appeared in the morning papers,
and for morning papers to use the
evening papers, 1t Is held to be the
| lowest form of journalism for a
newspaper published at the same
time as its contemporary to steal
! from the others columns so as to
make its readers believe 1t had the
story when it did not. The Chroni-
Gle, along with all the other news
papers, Is welcome to use any article
published In the EVENING NEWS IL
| 1t Will use it on the day, following,
thus giving the EVENING NEWS
readers the exclusive news that they
are entitled to every afternoon.
Proof is Conclusive.
II we had made the statement
that the Chronicle was stealing news
from our first edition and did not
offer any proof to substantiate It,
the Chronicle would deny it. un-
! ldoubtedly, and some of our readers
might consider it an unwarranted at
tsck on our part to belittle the
Chronicle and make gains for our
| selves In view OF that fact we con-
cocted a huge fake story that we
might catch the thieves off their
guard. The story appeared in yes
lterday's EVENING NEWS, both in
the first and second editions under
the heading. In the first edition.:
RESCUE BOY ADRIFT
ON BIG CAKE OF ICE
Otto Swenbor, of Greenridge, s. l.,
has Thrilling Experience While
Skating of Prince Bay Yesterday
TUG PRENTISS DISCOVERS HIM
and in the second edition under the
following heading:
RESCUE BOY ON ICE FLOE
Staten Island Youth Was Drifting to
Sea.
The story told how a fifteen-year-
old boy, Otto Swenbor, of Green
ridge, S. T., while skating on the ice
OF Prince Bay, suddenly found him.
self afioat ON huge Ice doe. Con-
tinuing, it told how, after an hour
of hardship. he was rescued by the
crew OF the tug Prentiss, of New
York.
The Chronicles Story.
The Chronicle stole the story from
our first edition, rewrote 1t and
printed 1t in the seventh column OF
their second page as follows:
MAROONED BOY is RESCUED
FROM FLOATING ICE
Tottenville, Jan. 19-Cut off from
shore when the ice on which he was
skating broke into several pieces
and left him floating on one large
cake. otto Swenbor, fifteen years old,
of -reenrtdge, drifted with the foe
to Prince Bay and was picked up at
dusk yesterday by the crew of the
|tug Prentiss. OF New York, and
brought here. Captain Martin, of the
tug, revived him and sent him home.
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