The Washington herald., 1913-07-16

former Gov. Taylor Of Kentucky. beat
II across the line 10 Indiana to escape
arrest in connection with the murder of
Goebel. Taylor took up his residence in
indianapolis and there were all sorts OF
plots and counter-plots to get him back
into Kentucky. 1t was also desired TO
get Taylors testimony against some Of
the others who were accused Of being
his fellow-conspirators.
So they got Taylor into the Office of
the official court stenographer at In
dianapolis. and questioned him for about
a day and half. There was such a lot
of secrecy about the whole business that
nobody seemed to know anything for
sure. Everybody connected with the az
fair refused absolutely TO let the reporters
know even the slightest thing about II.
and they stuck to that policy. There was
not a single leak, and with the whole
country clamoring for news OF Tayior's
testimony. the reporters on the scene
were tearing their hair and running about
in circles muttering vain things.
Finally a cute little scheme occurred
to Ray Long, now editor OF the Red BOOK
Magazine. but at that time with one OF
the Indianapolis papers Long knew thar
carbon copies were being made OF Tay-
that. owing to the importance OF the
work, fresh carbon sheets would be used
every few pages. During the lunch hour
he and Kent Cooper, another reporter,
walked nonchalantly into the room where
the typists worked. As they expected.
all the written pages Of testimony mao
carefully been put away under lock ana
key, but strewn about, over the desks ana
elsewhere. were the sheets OF oiacK car
bon paper the stenographers nad oeen
using. Hastily Long and Cooper gathered
these all I'D and went into another room.
BY holding the sheets up to the light
they were able to decipher enough OF the
typevriting to get all they required OF
TayIor's testimony. Every man connected
with the case, including both tne stenos
raphers and lawyers. was under sus-
njcion from then on. Everybody thought
everybody else had leaked the news.
And the true story of how Long anu
Cooper got the testimony they never oiu
learn.
The late John vandercook, for num-
Der of years the European Representa-
tive of the United Press. and later presi-
IN, Of that organization. happened 10 oe
SANDING nearby when a bomb was hurried
:, King Alfonso and his queen rev
years ago.
II isn't every day that newspaper
man has the opportunity to be an eye
witness to an attempt to kill on a king
and queen, and naturally he was ek-
tremely anxious to follow up his advant-
ase BY getting on the first news OK tue
occurrence.
He lost no time-as the trite phrase
is-in getting to the cable once. linen
he paused for a second to consioer the
matter of codes. An idea struck MIN
ard he hastily wrote OIL q ntty-woro
bulletin. stating the facts briefly ana as
n,,iniv as he could, without using any
c,de. His rea soning was that the CEN
sor. not being able to read a code mes
SAGE. might hold 1t UP, no matter now
satisfactory II might be as to contents.
nc believed a message that the censor
could understand might stand better
chance. Having fled that. though, van
dercook then wrote a lot more messages,
in code, telling the same thing' ana sent
them by different routes.
An the other correspondents assumed
that the censor would stop all messages
relating to the attempted ASSASSINATION.
and they used the most intricate sort OF
code. a..
when the smoke had cleared away 1t
was found that Vandercooks guess was
correct The only message thae nao
PASSED the censor was the one wander
cook had written without the use OF cooe.
The censoring officials said that II seemed
a fairly good account, and inasmuch As
the news was certain to reach the United
States anyhow, they preferred to have
that account go rather than some otner
account that they couldn't read. I'M
rnediately after sending 1t they closed the
cables to all sorts of messages until they
got good and ready to open up again.
C. p. J. Mooney, editor Of the Memphis
Commercial Appeal, gave Job one nne
day to young man who declared that
he earnestly desired to ENTER Jouyhal-
ISM" The young mans preliminary edu-
cation for his life work had been . close
study Of raee-track sheets, fighting rec
ords, and baseball guides. He knew
what hersss bed track Eeeerds q Leuiae