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EDENBURG: Going From Home to Phid-the-News— Tom Whitticker’s Wile Gatling Gan Published in Edenburg, Where Its Publisher was Arrested Yesterday, Special to the Derrick by WC. T. Evernote, November 1. This morning there arrived in town Michael Harrison, Roger O'Mara and Philip Demmet, three of Pittsburgh's best detectives, on the mission of secur ing the publisher of Tom Whittaker’s Gatling Gun, which made its appearance on the streets of the Smoky City last Tuesday. The reason of their coming here was from the fact that they held conclusive evidence that the paper was published here. This clue was gained by telegraphic correspondence last Wednesday and Thursday between a well known criminal lawyer, of Pitts burgh and a citizen of this place. On their arrival here the detectives were not long in finding a young man whose services had been eolicited to help set up the infamous sheet. This young man led the detectives to a house on the Columbia firm, where lived Sam Tipton. The officers found Tipton at home and aut once arrested him, over which they proceeded to take possession of many articles, such as Whittaker’s manuscript, the cuts used on the sheet, the tympan sheet from the pross, a sample of type and a number of copies of the paper which they found in the room. Tipton at once confessed that he did the publishing, so he was brought to town and locked up, the officers refusing to take bail. A search of the town was then made for Whittaker, but without any re sult,so the officers with their prisoner proceeded to Pittsburgh on the 3:15 train. Over seven hundred copies were captured in Pittsburgh by the authori ties, but as yet none were circulated in this neighborhood, Tipton has the sympathy of many, since it is thought he was really ignorant of what the publish ing of such a sheet might lead to. Tie leaves a wife and family in circumstances that are not very flattering. The con tract was to publish five thousand copies of the sheet. The arrest caused no little excitement about town. The sheet is six by nine, with twenty-two columns, n.
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Oil City Daily Derrick
Oil City, Pennsylvania, US
Sat, Nov 02, 1878
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