Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1887 — A Clever Reporter. [ARTICLE]

A Clever Reporter.

This story is told of Julius Chambers, the managing editor of the Herald, by one of his own chiefs: “Some twelve years ago I sent Chambers to the insane asylum at Bloomingdale to report from acti al observations abuses which were said to exist there. He went tljere under due process of law. He ’pretended to be insane, and acted his part so well as to deceive two physicians, a professional nurse, the magistrate who committed him, and the expert doctors yho had charge of the asylum. He was in the asylum for two weeks and was released when a writ of habeas corpus was served on the keepers. When in Spain for the Herald,' some years since, Chambers got possession of a treaty between Spain and this country, which General Daniel E. Sickles was negotiating. He wished to telegraph it to the Herald, but knew he could not get the Spanish censor to approve it. He hit upon the queer alternative of telegraphing the points of the treaty as if it applied to some adventure of the Prince of Wales in India. It was all nonsense to the censor and to the man who received it at the Herald office, but Chambers, after the dispatch was sent over the wires, telegraphed a key to explain the hidden mean ng. I think it was the first (and last) instance on record of sending a cipher first and the key to it afterward.” —New York Graphic. Used Bed Star Cough Cure effectually. Dr. C. Fawcett, Union Protestant Infirmary, Baltimore, Md. No depressing efiects.