Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-01-28

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
fighting kind to the armed ntruders.
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. Woolley
stood there with the receiver in his hand for
minute while red-hot verbiage .'as exchanged
Then Woolley walked straight by the two armed
men and went out of the door, and neither one
cared or dared to interfere with him.
Later IT developed that while the receiver
Of although the wire had been cut, the chief
editor of the paper at his home had taken of
his own receiver to call up the office, and found
he could not get it. But only wire was
severed he heard large part of the converse
tion in the office by 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 an ordinary newspaper
would have become disgusted with the pro-
fession which he 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
caused the other editor. Mr.. Wooley's chief, to
put the lie in print. While things seemingly were
still at white heat between the two camps the
TO shoot, or be shot by, made up their differences
combined the two papers, and thus Wooley. who
had dared everything for his chief. forced
out. and in The parlance of the street. was left
to hold the bag" In other words, Bob Woolley
stood for right and principle and then lost his
Job.
There celebrated law in Kentucky
that attracted worldwide attention After the
municipal ring episode and Mr.. Woolley had lost
his place managing editor, he became a re-
porter and he handled this case. There
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 sent down from Chi
Cago to work on the matter Wooey had in hand,
and they became acquainted with him. They
found out n lot of things about him which ap-
pealed to their newspaper sense They also dis
covered that he was fond of American sports
They went back to Chicago and a short time
thereafter Wooley, who knew nothing about their
interest in him. received offer from the Chi
cago Tribune to become a reporter in the sport
ing department of that paper. He went to Chi
cago, and it was not long before he became the
sporting editor of the newspaper whose STAFF he
joined
From Chicago the present director of the mint
went to New York. and for long time
ployed the New York World little later,
somebody else has put 1t. he yielded to the temp
tation of a beautiful fruit plantation in Texas
The fruit not altogether golden. far the
proceeds from the sale OF the crops
cerned, and Mr. Woolley went back into the
paper profession