The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-02-16

their idea of newspaper story. taking
. ont those parts which they thought I,
be uninteresting and interpolating sucl
matter as they conceived would make
sensational and highly diveriing mar
rativc
, IF tho United States marshal had
merely eliminated certain parts of the
confession ha would not now he subject
to so much criticism, but with the aid
and Imagination of his undcrstudy ho
ia abricatcd a confession which was pub
Iisbed in the Herald Republican as the
true confession. II bore only faint
resemblance TO tho real confession and
The Tribune pointed out this fact,
In an effort to bluff its way through,
the Herald Republican declared that it
had Photographic copy of Lee s con
fession and said that it would publish
this Photographic copy if the coufes-
sion were questioned The Tribune then
printed the false confession and tho real
confession in parallel columns, demon
strating to the public the hagrancy and
bra2enness of the Herald Republican
fake, In the hope Of still confusing the
| public mind, the Herald Republican OBJ
| tanned third confession, which is un
| like either Of the others. In the first
Herald. Republican confession Lee
was made to say that he had held up
''as many as one hundred and twenty
stages and some express trains besides
the horse'stealing and individual rob
berries, - This does not appear in the
second confession, Dor, of course, in
the genuine confession.
Still seeking TO hide it's dishonesty,
the Herald Republican forced the Uni.
ted States marshal 8 undcrstudy TO
make a sworn statement but this state
ment is so weak that it brands the
Herald Republican s famous copyright
story as thoroughly mendacious The
understudy. if he had wished to bring
conviction TO the public mind. naturally
would have sworn that the confession
as published in the Herald Republican
was the confession which Lee signed
Instead, he merely says that the article
in the Herald Republican "was written
entirely from information given him
personally by Milton II. Lee The
information given by Lee was contained
in a signed confession to which both
the United States marshal and his I'M
dcrstudy were witnesses. The Herald
Republican garbled the confession and
inserted falsehoods. At no time has it
JnI A
er to such an extent that he has cor
roboratcd the fake.
The Herald Republican promised TO
reproduce Photographic copy of Lee S
confession to substantiate the supposed
confession which they published in theiI
paper. This they have not done and |
they dare not do it, because If they |
did it would merely reveal what The |
Tribune has already disclosed-that the |
genuine confession bears little resem-
The Herald Republican processes to
be shocked because The Tribune used |
that part of the genuine confession
which contained the namo of Wertz, |
whom Lee accuses of being an accom-
plicc. cit is thought that he will now
mourns the writer. If the
United States marshal and the yellow
journalists spent as much time watching
the news as they do in preparing fakes
they would know that The Tribune
printed the name in its issue of Jan
nary 81, when ii told of Lee 3 arrest
Mr., Wertz has been in the city every
lay since then and has made no attempt
TO escape.
This disclosure of Herald Republican
: sbsurdities might be continued indef-
nitcly. but VIC are reminded that we
should simply be demonstrating that
which needs no proof-the Herald Re
publican is an invcterate and hopeless
prevarlcator.