Editor Covers Story When His Son Is Drowned.
Editor Covers Story
When His Son Is Drowned.

EDITOR COVERS
STORY WHEN HIS
SON IS DROWNED

    NEW YORK, July 10.--[Special.]--Garner P. Roney is a newspaper man by instinct and by virtue of long training. He recovered the body of his only son from a creek near Kinderhook today, but even while he was broken by the greatest sorrow of his life, he realized that the finding of the boy's body was news and that his paper should have it. So he went to the telegraph office and wrote the story for what it was worth as news, wrote it calmly and as dispassionately as if the boy had been a stranger. Here is his dispatch:
    "Kinderhook, N. Y., July 10.--Sought by State troopers, Boy Scouts and posses of citizens since his disappearance Wednesday, James Wynkop Roney, 9 year old son of Garner P. Roney, an assistant city editor of the New York Herald-Tribune, was found drowned in Kinderhook creek here today.
    "The boy, whose parents live at 200 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, had been living here with his grandmother, Mrs. Helena G. Roney. He left his grandmother's home Wednesday afternoon for a bike ride. When he did not return state troopers were notified and the search began.
    "Early Thursday, Boy Scouts searching along the creek came upon the boy's bike and clothes on the bank. Divers at once went to work to locate the body and after hours of effort it was found."


Source:

Unknown, "Editor Covers Story When His Son Is Drowned," Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Saturday, 11 July, 1925, p. 1.

Created April 27, 2006; Revised April 27, 2006
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wynkoop/index.htm
Comments to [email protected]

Copyright © 2006 by Christopher H. Wynkoop, All Rights Reserved

This site may be freely linked to but not duplicated in any fashion without my written consent.

Site map

The Wynkoop Family Research Library
Home