The Detroit times., 1916-07-15
Let Us All, As Peace
Lovers, Be Very Thankful
That Somebody Lied!

We have heard it remarked that no
news Is good news.
A preference for good news may ex-1
plain why some people take an evening
PAPER other than The Times.
But that is neither here nor there.
What we want to interest you in is a
dispatch which reached this office Fri
~, 70 prove that news. upon occasions,
Int news at all.
H dispatch came from Lima, Ohio,
~ 1O:16 p. M. and read:
LIZA. o.. July 14-Bandits who were
Il 6i13od "a IN effort to hold up the fast Broad
s.s xiny express Of the Pennsylvania railroad.
IS nooy Nourooville, Ind. today discharged
IA ho9neal loads Of buckshot at passengers rid
sssa q the observation platform at the rear
81 1. 5crts reaching here said that R. J.
Il NSc1 q Pittsburgh. was seriously injured
IS 1o6 that others sustained wounds. Wood
NJ hit In eight places.
This was what the telegraph editor
Immediately seized upon as some real
nows, but it was modified somewhat at
1O:4O when another dispatch was re-
,coived, reading as follows:
LIMA. o.. July 1.-TWO persons were
NJ PAINFULLY injured when an unknown man
0rod shotgun Of buckshot into group of
passengers on the rear platform of the OBJ
oorvatton car Of the east bound Broadway
81 limited, the Pennsylvania railroads 20 hour
train between Chicago and New York, late
yesterday The shooting took place near
1aDles. Ind The passengers did not see
~ man, but a. soon a. thu report Of the
/N&< zI<x~~z 81 q
# fciircad nom Pittsburgh and a young wo-
IAN on route TO Philadelphia cried out that
thy had been wounded. The train was
& noopped IN Lima Is minutes and DIR. ]. B.
vnN attended the victims They were I'M
ablo 70 describe the man who did the shoot
n, - the train was moving too rapidly.
0f0clals Of the railroad absolutely refused
" - givo out the names of the wounded per-
* cons end detectives declared there was no
evidence Of m attempt to hold up the train.
While there was an apparent DISPOSE
Non In that second dispatch to hedge, it
didn't begin to compare with the appar-
1T disposition in the third dispatch to
hedge some more. The third one, reach
ing 10 at 10:46, read:
CHICAGO. July 14-In an official state
ment issued today by the assistant general
passenger agents Office of the Pennsylvania
121lEVaos fSBSruinB the reported attack on
-. the broadway express, near Naples, Ind IL
was stated that small boy fred load OF
shot at the observation as 1t sped past
1T was Just boyish prank" the railroad
official said. "A boy was sitting on the
81 fence. He fred the shotgun at the passen.
ka gers on the observation platform r. j.
t Wood, Of Pittsburgh stenographer for Cen
sx erai Freight Agent Connolly, OF the Penn
gylvania road, one Of the passengers was
r& lift In the leg by one Of the shot No one
~ else was injured, so far as reported to us
Tho boy 10 being sought by officials al
l Though the train was going SO fast II must
(. have been mile or two beyond the spot be-
3 Tore anyone really knew what had hap
psned."
Only shattered fragment of what
promised to be 3 corlsing sensation re.
Y mained by this time, but at 1851 the
I whole thing dried up and blew away in
& the following final word:
FORT WAYNE, Ind, July 14--Pennsyl.
81 vonia railroad officials here denied today
< 1hot an attempt had been made 20 rob the
n n1Anlght Chicago to New York express near
naDoeo, Ind. and said that the story had
.movu nom an incident that involved small
- 3 shotgun and squirrels.
<3nrUno small boys shot at a squirrel az
re l1oih vas passing near Naples. Ind."
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