Judsonia weekly advance., 1916-01-26

entire business office force of the newspaper prisoners behind their counters. The ntruders were threatening to shoot anybody who attempted to leave. Woolley had no gun. He entered the office and proceeded to address remarks made up of words ordinarily considered of the fighting kind to the armed intruders
 Woolley reached for telephone, took it off the receiver and 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 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 off, although the wire had been cut, the chief editor of the paper at his home had taken off his receiver to call up the ofice 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 an ordinary newspaper man would have become dsgusted with the pro- fesson which he trying to follow and would have thought that the whole world out of joint The mayor of the town and his son were editors of rival newspaper. This rival stood, cf 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. was left to hold the bag" In other words, Bob Woolley stood for right and principle and then lost his job.
 There was celebrated law case in Kentucky that attracted worldwide attention. After the municipal ring episode and MT. Woolley had lost his place as managing editor. he became re- porter and he handled this case. There came down from Chicago at this time two newspaper men who since have become widely ncwn-Eu- gene Bertrand, now of the New York Herald and William B. Lewis, the editor of the New York Telegraph. They had been sent down from Chi cago to work on the matter Woolley had in hand, and they became acquainted with him. They found out a 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 Woolley, who thew nothing about their interest in him, receiveC an offer from the Chi cugo Tribune to become reporter in the sport ing department of that Japer. He went to Chi cago, and it was not lofg before he became the sporting editor of the newspaper whose staff he Joined.
 From Cn1cago the prefent director of the mint went to New York, and for a long time was e1n- ployed on the New York World. A little later, as somebody else has put it. The yielded to the temp tation Of beautiful fruit plantation in Texas" The fruit was not altogether golden. far as the proceeds from the sale of the crops were con cerned. and MT. Woolley went back into the news paper profession. 4