The Murder of the Century

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The colossal press inclusion of this issue, with once in a while in excess of a dozen newspapers handling correspondents without a moment’s delay—also the later diaries of its participants—permitted me to draw on many onlooker sources. All of the dialogue in quotes comes legitimately from discussions recorded in their accounts, and keeping in mind that I have openly altered out verbiage, not a word has been added the newsies along the East River docks still readied themselves on a singing summer Saturday for the approaching ship passenger from Brooklyn, outfitted with endless doing combating versions of Manhattan’s dailies for June 26, 1897. There were shocking “yellow papers” like Pulitzer’s World and Hearst’s Journal, the impressive leads of the Herald and the Sun, and strayrunts like the Post and the Times.