Modern Newspaper Work.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 313, 18 June 1889, Page 4

Modern Newspaper Work.

A New Yobs correspondent writes :—A wild excitement was created here last week by the arrest of two ladies for shop lifting. They wore very fine ladies, handsomely drested and nothing about them but their underskirts to denote them as regular shoplifters. A shoplifter's skirt is made double; a series of huge poekets in which they can store an immense amount of plunder. In the pockets of the ladies in question were found stockings, neckties, handkerchiefs, towels, scarfs, jewellery, bric-a-brac, and an assortment of other things. Both woman turned out to be the wives of worthy and honest husbands, one of whom broke down completely when he heard of his wife's disgrace, Later on it was whispered that the whole thing was a newspaper fake, and that the alleged shoplifter was no other than the celebrated Nellie Bly of the New York World, who had attempted to put up a sensational job in the interests of that paper. I am not quite sure that this last revelation is true; but this erratic young person had already done some very extraordinary things. Two years ago she got herself shut up in a lunatic asylum, and after spending two weeks among the loonies, deceiving old doctors with her simulated madness, and raising Cain generally, she came out exposing the weak spots Of the institution and gave the attending medical faculty Hail Columbia. Later on aha entered into a conspiracy with another female reporter and got arrested at an hotel for stealing a pocket-book and spent a night in the cells, where she and her female friend made it exceedingly uncomfortable for a detective who tried to make love to them. If this last fashionable shop-lifter turns out to be the redoubtablellellie Bly, itwill certainly go to show an immense advance in modern journalistic enterprise, and we may confidently look forward to the day when, in the interest of our great dailies, a first class burglar may be engaged to crack a bank, or some disgruntled nihilist from Russia may be hired to blow up a house with nitro glycerine. Dere is no mistake de world do move.