On the Trail of the Bomb Man

IF you doubt that this story is true, ask any newspaper reporter in Park Row. Carrere, former city editor of the Globe, told it after a midnight dinner in a private dining-room of the Newspaper Club. He told it to Landsdown, a London editor, here to study American newspaper methods; to Captain Ames, the new police commissioner, who did not know that for a decade the only clever detective work in New York City has been done by the big newspapers; and to me, who knew the story of old.

As to Trafford, whose name is not Trafford at all, he is still with the Globe, which, of course, is not the right name of the paper. The story is told here without break or side incident and as near as possible in the words of Carrere...