QoJ pity me, 1 eroery him Because I love him so. ■S. E. Kiser, In the Ublcaco Eeeonl-Ber-ald.

A REPORTER'S REROISM, | Pinned Under a Locomotive and Dy- Z

ilig lie DtcUled His 'story ♦ of the Wreck, •

Ey Maj. Geobok F. Wiixiaxs. Z

;aint—his face wet with the he was endurlnK. "What I that you write out my story tate It. and send the report t

* aaoay I BUYING “GREENGOODS.

want Is '

as I die-' ...

ti IKtnnx m ^ i DIFFICULTY IN PREViNTINC THI IntcrOeean: and L want you and all | P0RM 0F SWINDLE.

Few .Realise to What Extent This Pertlrular Calllnc of the Powers That Pevla Carried—Klnse Awonc the Cronle. The Methods of the Sharpers Are Many.

laps erery newspaper i what a "greengoods” n

Ever since the time when Froissart, that genial historian of the Middle Ages, .depicted. In his Inimitable and charming style, the deeds performed by steel clad knights In search of adventure on the roadside or In the melee of battle, heroism has been the ab- . aorblng and dramatic theme of poet and alng.-r. Today, when repeating rifles and rapid-firing field 'or naval guns are the weapons of war on land or sea, heroism displayed on the scene of conflict is always a theme for praise by writers of prose or poetry. In all the wars of ancient or modern history heroic acts have illumined the pages of each epoch or century and these deeds are embalmed In history as the most precious gifts, to human-

ity.

But it is-not alone on battle fields or In the hostile encounters that heroism is displayed. Heroism belongs to every age and generation. It is this quality that gives a nation or a people distinctive character or force. As it was during all of the centuries of the Christian era. so it was in the nineteenth century just closed.' Few men or women who read newspapers would look for heroism among the men whose efforts placed before them the news of the day from all parts of the world. I do not Intend to allude to or describe the work of war correspondents who participate in head-long charges or desperate encounters in search of material for glowing and rapid description of striking scenes, but to the work of every day life. jL , * In the summer of 1892, the ChlCagoA Alton railroad modernized two or three hundred miles of Its track, when the .officials of the company organized an excursion tralh for the purpose of showing how far they had pifigTcssed. Every prominent citizen of Cfil^ago was Invited to take the trip and most of them accepted. These gentlemen,- the railroad officers and a' repartee JrQm_ each of the Chicago morning papers,'formed the excursion

-party. .

The reporter representing the Chicago Inter-Ocean jss Eugene White 1 head, who made himself famous by Inventing what Is now known as baseball nomenclature. He was the first writer who wrote of “daisy cutters.” "aky-scraping fly-balls." “grounders" and similar phrases now So common In descriptions of the national game. As the "C. & A" excursion- was really a junketing expedition, Mr. Whitebead's managing editor assigned him to it as a special mark of favor. Eugene Whitehead was one of those men who are ever seeking a new sensation. and it struck him that a ride in the cab of a locomotive during a trip over an improved railroad would be something out of the common run in newspaper experience., Inviting Roy L. Quackenbush, a reporter for another Chicago newspaper, to Join him, they entered the cab. and, for nearly an hour, remained there, swallowing dust, cinders and smoke, until Quackenbush grew weary, Bnd"&t the first

stopping place r pleasant atmosph

cars.

The train had speed of from SO and the ex curs! about Whitehead locomotive amid I ing among them] The train went pace until it reac

enger at a hoar, it all n the feast-

dlong rhlch, rr the

being Imperfect, srelght of the eng

'crumbled the locomotive turned over and fell Into the creek.. The engineer and fireman were Instantly killed, bur

Whitehead was a •clous, despite t pinned TUrdw^he and could not be Every possible the excursion pa head's sufferings

tl

> wrecking outfit

by

had

it arrived he woi "That's all right, old man." said Whitehead. The wrecking train win not get here in time to save me; even if it does, I am going to die. Say. Boy, wUl yon do s»»e- a favor?" “Ill do - anything, 'Gene, for you. What Is it?~ exclaimed Quackenbush. withltpany tears running down his “Well. Roy.’’ replied the crushed and dying reporter, “it's thta way. 1 want yon to take down My dictated story of this accident and send it over the wire to the Inter-Ocean. 'WUl yon do nr ^"Of cewwe 1*^- .aid •a* aboat your duty to the laierOeeaa. Hi send year fiery myeatt." -Ten don’t aeea to wndwfl a*

the other newsiiaper boys to let me have a ‘scoop.’ 1 Want all of them to agree that my story shall be the only one published in Chicago. I shall never see It In print, but lt‘s a fancy of mine to scoop In just one more bit

of -news before I die."

"All right, old fellow," said Quack- . - .

enbush, taking out bis note book and | they were pretty well acquainted with pencil. "It shall be as you wish. I i ‘bo Intricacies of metropolitan llf< know that the boys will agree." | havc “Y Idea to what extent thlt •Thank you and them. Now are you 1 Particular calling of the "powers tha: ready" j PrcY” ** carried? The trade o! In loss than 20 minute, the heroic 0,0 ■'P-eengood." man is one of the

it clearly, described mo9t P>i“llng and mysterious will:

which detectives have to deal. Anc what is most astonishing of all Is tha' every day within a radius of a few miles from Now York City hundredr of daring schemes are being carried on and brought to full realisation. A New Work Tribune reporter i prompted to make Inquiries as to extent and workings of this practice by a Washington dispatch. This £itpatch said that J. L. Bristow, fourth, aislstant postmaster genera^ la his recent report, had advocated amendment to the interstate < morce law which would prohibit telegraph and express companies or theli employes from aiding and abetting "greengoods" or lottery swindles.

reporter slowly, but ic accident whicji > him. fie depleted

nations during the few seconds between apparent safety and the terrible sensation .of finding himself pinned. under the locomotive. Mr. Whitehead was particular In recording the names of the dead engineer and fireman, adding his own name as being fatally Injured. He also aUuded to the fact that not one of the passenger coaches had left the track and that none of the occupants had suffeied more than a severe shaking up. He ended his report by saying thjrt the disaster was unavoidable and dieted success for the new and

era system.

Poor Eugene Whitehead was dead before the story went over the wire. To It. under their respective signatures, was appended the attestation of the other reporters that the dlatch had been dictated by Mr. White-

1 p rein od-

mall and partly by common carrier In violation of the postal laws. The i.ecesalty for such a law, together with the probable difficulty of Us enforcement. was made evident by Theodore W. Swift, cbief of the New York postoffice inspectors. Mr. Swift said: The "greengoods" man is one who

he^d. and tbaf In compliance with hi. , promlMa t0 „ ve . cerUln dying request the Inter-Ocean would j count erfeit money for genuine mon, be the only newspaper to receive an ■ He one of ^ ollle8t , ndlv i duai8 account of the accident alth whom detective, have to deal. On the return of the surviving re- | j Ie „ d i fflcn ] t t0 apprehend, and when porter, to the Windy City, one and all be u caught it Is almost ImpoMlble'to received from their managing editors oblaln 8Ufflc i ent evidence to secure warm and hearty commendation for j t lg conviction. Every year he robs their deference to a dying comrade, innocent, trusting men. of largo sums This is probably the only instance ot money—how large we have no where a news "scoop" was voluntarily mean, of determining. He Is a highaccorded by living men to a dying j wayman. a true freebooter, who one. The heroism and devoUon to handles his revolver with as easy an duty of Eugene Whitehead met its : assurance as ho does his chief weapon full reward.—The Journalist. | —his tongue. We have fonght him

years, and we arc still cunning ways. He Is the

trickiest, nerviest, most desperate ruf-

Tiay cin* whirh Lad to ti>,« captor* of flan In good clothes with whom

deal. I could talk to you tor hours of

TACK PROVED A HO JDOQ.

su^ roga for j j learning his ct

O til*

I deal. I could talk to you 1

One of the most remarkable cap- ! hlg wom i QgBi h i s twisting and hr

lures in the history of my experience." j burrowings. but perhaps a descrlpUc_ said a well known detective, “hap- | of only onc of , hundred different pened some years ago. and I need not , rae thods by which he makes hi* living mention the place nor the clrcum- ; wlll gerve M an illustration, stance In connecUon with the case. It Practically all the "greengoods’ was In a case where *30,000 had sud- | of u,,, country operate from New York, denly and mysteriously disappeared j Th ey work In this city because the from a bank. The money was In a , great volume of mailing which goes package, and wns near Ujo ^ylng 0 n here makes detection more difficult, teller's window. The hank >waa open if a f ter they receive replies they and doing business, for the money dis- could be tracked'and watched, and Jf appeared before it was time for the wc knew from whom their mall comes, bank to close. In the rush of business I of course we could more readily drive the teller had left Jils post at the win- j them out of existence. As the system dow for a minute, end it was wnlle no is now woriced we have no means of was gone that the roll of money dis- | knowing who send letters to them appeared. He was dumbfounded ! at what point these letters to t when he discovered that a wad of sharpers are really written,

money amounting to *30.000 had disappeared fronj the amount ho had the counter behind the screen.

!i vtos i

Dill-

Let's .take the simplest case. The ‘greengoods’ man sends ont a clrcua man whose name he finds In

lar

>_ The w r ~ ■ ...

bank officials were badly puzzled.

,, c * an:1 “ atloD of to* 5 outside of liong may be obtained by telegraphing th« wooden framework revealed a to, ga y, -j w . eHIs, Greenville. N. verr small triangular scar' on the j.,- whlch , of cou^, , g a fictitious adwoodwork, as if some person had at- : drcga . The Innocent is told not to tempted to climb np to a position ; uge tie malls, but to telegraph all

where the money coulfibe reached. I communications to the crook unde: The money was several fort fn#n the .ig„aturo. say. for example. T*«."

window. The scar was freshly made. | m 0 . 736 accepts the bait and tcleand it. 1 poked very much like the 1m- gmlfcs as Instructed. In a short Ume print of a peculiarly shaped tack In ! a generous pile ot messages from the heel of a shoe. Probably 20 days . gullible persons, addressed to the lawr a member of the detective force ; crook, accumulate at Greenville. It is

happened to be passing through a eag y for us to find these telegrams

prominent hotel. A stranger was sit- that office, bnt we can't find the crook, ting In the lobby, and he was striking ; By collusion with the telegraph oper-

the heel of his shoe with a pencil with | ntor. copies of these

brass on the end of It which he v had : sent by mail, by express, or by hgpd In. his hand, and it made a sort of / to New York, where the crook has clinking sound. The detecUve's at- j all along kept himself. This scheme tention was arrested. He made in- ' prevents us from capturing him. It qulries of the clerk with reference to ia practically impossible to prove that

the man. The clerk knew nothing the operator, who receives ISO '

about him except that he had been ‘ his share In the transactions; Is an

at the hotel for some time. : accessory to the operation. “The detective concluded that he'}.. Each of these copies of telegrams would take a chance. He arrested the , represents to the crook ' a His trunk, valise and room were 1 -aucker.” The greengoods

searched. No money could be found, ‘ writes again to No. 736. the weakling, The prisoner all the time was giving and sends him 'a genuine one dollar out excited protestations. Finally the bill as a specimen of the eomtW.

a felt money which la U that for *500. In g

B<1 worth <

sample

The Innocent ia then instructed to

ipccimen of the counter-

vhlch is for 1

A-

money like the

enclosed may be purchased.

protestations. Finally the , bin as a

ught they would make a f e i t money which is for sale. He. adds close examination of the mattress. It j that for *500. In good money. *6000

worth of counterfeit money like the money, and the *30.000 was there, and the paying teUer was the hsppfest

1,1 the world. New Orleans | cone to Ne w York, but to first tele-

grapb, always in cipher, to the sharper's real address In New York tell-

Dlam.l.r of »*.. PI.*.. Marr.ry, | J B g pin When he Staffs.

A few minutes sJter No. 736, the

is to a room at an ap-

1 "stcerer." or as-

,The planet Mercury has been r ^ _ ured with the large t<le»cope of the ' Innocent, goes I United States Naval observatory at pointed hotel. 1 Washington by Dr. See. and Its dlam- aoclate, of .the

6.90.11', /corse- pear* The

r (then pik

; to 1278 kilometer*; (9658 man with the *600 Into the c miles). Dr. See calls attention'to Uw perhaps to a small Penns; fact that ho has never seen any town, where tie greengoods marked slots on the pfansiVdlac. not merts them. He is told that even when the iky was absolutely require* such a move. The crook pure and the image of the planet per. then a-MuaHy gives the "eueker" *Mm> iectly defined, noe has he seen any tn genuiae money for his #600. diminution of brighUMM at the edge* The* the crook telle Ne. ttfi of the disc, suck aa would be pro- ft would be better If h* did not Slir»e t hL we B S*2 UM M a

e pock* sst Incr

.ess likely to cause any one to au» loci their origin. Mind you. this propaltlon is made after the *600 is in :ket of the sharper. It is al ■credible, but It la a fact that ho countryman, in the majority ol ases. consents to give back his *5000 .•orth of genuine bills to the crook tubject it to the "process." After 1 celvlng the *5000 beck the sharper d tppears, the "ateerer" does likewii

tpp« and

re murmured an objection or heslated a moment, he would have been ■onfronted with a loaded revolver. In bla way theft by assault and battery Is not necessary, and the same object

:s achieved in the quiet suave fashli

the rict

Ms position as a would-be dispenser if false bills. Is blocked from comilalning lo the police. This Is the simples

1 escribed, and the victim, because t

aetbod of

theme,

or us to

eally 1 irally

. met

Tvcengooda procedure. Ther •housand variations to this aach of which is a hard nut I

'rack. You ask why cannot one of our men Impersonate a credulous person and then arrest the blackguards? We have done this, but have practl-

abandoned the idea, because gen we have been unable to pro-

Juce enough evidence to convict. The sending of the telegrams and letters Is so adroitly-managed that the train of evidence which we may collect is likely to break at an Important point. Of epurse. the detective’s life Is in constant danger when pursuing these

crooks.

"Where do the sharpers get the money witn which to play their trade? Where did the" man In the case cited set his *5000 in genuine money?" was asked. Mr. Swift replied: •That Is the most interesting part of the story. The system does not depend for Its success upon the resources of a few needy swindlers. These men are simply agerts of wealthy criminals, who manage their men. outline the plan, think of new schemes and pay their agents a generous percentage of the amount they steal from their victims. This wealthy criminal Is the king sharper of the crowd: it Is he who furnishes the capital. To prove my knowledge of tne existence of these facts. I’ll sa; that I know one of these king crooks. He lives In Pennsylvania where he hw a magnificent stock fsrm. Many acres of rich land, on which are costly cattle and horses, stretch on all sides from his baronlal-llke mansion. There are others like him, closer to New York human vultures, who by_the exercise of a peculiar cast of intelligence have been able to amass large fortunes. They have wrought so cunningly that, while we are certain that they are exceedingly dangerous to society, we are almost powerless to convict them. The very nicety of the law of. evidence renders almost Impossible the fulfilment of Justice. We have been fairly successful, how. ever, in driving these highwaymen from our pcstofflec. and what we want now Is just this amendment to the Interstate commerce law which will make telegraph and express companies—the former particularly— more heedful of their duty. We have

'' h pro

being

carried*on by telegraph or mail. All states should have such a statute, or else let us have a Federal law* to'the same effect. New Jersey has a statute pcphibltlng telegraph and express companies from aiding and abetting these swindlers. We have recently had a New Jersey operator Imprisoned for violating this law.

Bad Kmn Ther* All th« Time. One of the, "fly men" at the central police station was given instructions several weeks ago to "brii

young ir The det

Ictcctlve knew his man and had received Information that he was In

the city.

A detective working unfier an Instruction to arrest a man when found does not usually devote all his time to the, search. He pats the warrant Into

ocket a g his m

at you,” he said good-natured- ; I didn’t expect to find you

slonally drops as are usually favored with the presence of men who have been photographed side and front. One morning the "Ay man." while oh hit way to his room met the longbought crook, at the front stairway of the building ,T wont ly, “but I didn't expect to find yon

here"

•This is where I live.' “For how long?” "Since I came back, six weeks ago." "Well. yoi£-8 a bird; I live Jiefe, ten." Both men were touched in thelr professional pride—one that he could search for weeks to arrest a man in

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