The log cabin Democrat., 1916-01-29


 entire business office force of the newspaper prisoners behind their counters The intruders were threatening to shoot anybody who attempted to leave. Woolley had no gun. He entered the office and proceeded to address some remarks made up of words ordinarily considered of the lighting kind to the armed intruders
 Woolley reached for telephone, took it off the receiver and was laughed at by the gunmen who told him that they had cut the wire Wooey stood there with the receiver in his hand for minute while redhot verbage was exchanged. Then Woolley walked straight by the two armed men and went out of the door, and neither cared or dared to interfere with him.
 Later it developed that while the receiver was or, although the wire had been cut the chief editor of the paper at his home had taken off his own receiver to call up the office, and found he could not get it. But as only one wire was severed he heard large part of the conversa- tion in the office by means of the uncut wire connected with the office telephone. What he heard afterwards used in evidence, for court proceedings were brought.
 Now, it is just here that ordinary newspaper man would have become disgusted with the pro- fession which he was trying to follow and would have thought that the whole world was out of joint The mayor of the town and his son were editors of rival newspaper. This rival stood, of course, for the municipal ring, and it was things which appeared in it's columns which had
 
 put the lie in print. While things seemingly were still at white heat between the two camps the mayor and his rival editor whom he was ready to shoot or be shot by, made up their differences, combined the two papers, and thus Woolley, who had dared everything for his chief was forced out, and in the parlance of the street, left to hold the bag" In other words Bob Woolley stood for right and principle and then lost his job.
 There d celebrated law case in Kentucky that attracted worldwide attention. After the municipal ring episode and MT. Woolley had lost his place managing editor he became a re- porter and he handled this case There came down from Chicago at this time two newspaper men who since have become widely knCwn-Eu- gene Bertrand, of the New York Herald and William E. Lewis the editor of the New York Telegraph. They had been down from Chi cago to work on the matter Woolley had in hand, and they became acquainted with him. They found out lot of things about him which ap- peaed to their newspaper sense. They also dis covered that he was fond of American sports They went back to Ch-cago and a short time thereafter Wooley, who thew nothing about their interest in him, received offer from the Chi cago Tribune to become a reporter in the sport ing department of that :uper. He went to Chi. cago, and it not lofg before he became the sporting editor of the newspaper whose staff he joined
 From Cnlcago the pregont director of the mint went to New York, and ior long time was en- ployed on the New York World A little later as somebody else has put it. he yielded to the temp tation of a beautiful fruit plantation in Texas" The fruit not altogether golden, as far as the proceeds from the sale of the crops were con- cerned and MT Woolley went back into the news paper profession.