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    THE EDITOR of the Boulder News has been robbed. He lost his all. He had his pocket picked of fifty cents. We are sorry for Wynkoop, and yet our pity must be tempered with censure. He occupies a position that should make him very careful about indulging in practices that are calculated to corrupt the community in which he resides; and surely holding out tempting allurements to those who are unfortunately afflicted with kleptomania is of this class. An editor who will deliberately walk the streets with four bits in his breeches, deserves to lose it, and also to lose caste with the fraternity for thus putting pickpockets on the track of men whom they have hitherto avoided.

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Unknown, "The Editor of the Boulder News Has Been Robbed," Daily Colorado Miner, Georgetown, Clear Creek County, Colorado, Thursday, 18 September, 1873, Page 3.

    Wynkoop, in the above article, is William Conklin Wynkoop, a well known newspaper publisher, (of the Boulder News at this point in time), and mining expert.

    Richard Wynkoop, in the 1904 edition of the Wynkoop Genealogy in the United States of America, had this to say about William Conklin Wynkoop and his family, on pages 157-159:

    790. Legrand Wynkoop, (John 445, Benjamin 178, Benjamin 53, Benjamin 8, Cornelius 1,) born September 15, 1809: married, 1st, January 4, 1830, Lucretia T. Conklin, of Chemung, N. Y., who died November 26, 1853, aged 41 years; married 2d, June 20, 1854, Maria Darker, born September 23, 1827, in Quorndon, Leicestershire, England.
    Legrand removed, in 1837, to Dixon, Lee County, Ill. His second wife is mentioned as an easy and graceful writer for the magazines.
    Children of Legrand and Lucretia T. Wynkoop:
1344. Adelaide: b. May 18, 1831: d. Dec. 21, 1832.
1345. Helen: b. Aug. 24, 1833: m., 1st, Samuel H. Leidy; m., 2d, John Van Ornam.
1346. Orpah: b. May 26, 1835: d. July 8, 1835.
1347. Alasco: b. Aug. 21, 1837: d. Sept. 1, 1838.
1348. Arthur: b. Aug. 27, 1839: d. Dec. 16, 1841.
1349. Cecilia: b. Apl. 11, 1843: m. Robert E. Bailey. He enlisted as a private in the 2d Reg. Minn. Vol. Inf. He re-enlisted, with nearly all the regiment, and served, as hospital steward, until the close of the war.
1350. William Conklin: b. Aug. 6, 1845: m., Apl. 26, 1874, Johanna Caroline Van der Leeuw, b. Dec. 25, 1851, d. Aug. 28, 1887, daughter of Rev. J. W. Van der Leeuw, of Amsterdam, Holland.
    He served in the 2d Reg. Minn. Vol. Inf., and was wounded, in July, 1862, at Corinth, and was sent home. While he was on a furlough, the Indian war broke out, and he served six weeks against the Indians, in a company of independent rangers, called "Old Company," which was never mustered into the service. He was, for seven months, with the 1st Reg. Minn. Mounted Rangers, organized to fight the Indians.
    He rejoined the 2d Reg. Minn. Vol. Inf., and served until the close of the war, and was promoted to the place of Sergeant-Major, for meritorious conduct, in the charge on Kenesaw Mountain. He had a commission as First Lieut. in the engineer corps, but did not muster in on it.
    He studied mining engineering, and followed it as a profession, after 1867, in the Western States and Territories. In 1873, he studied, in Europe, mines and mining methods. He was author of Ancient and Modern Mining Methods; and of The Old Mines of Mexico.
    While he was in Holland, he was in communication with a Wynkoop, of Amsterdam, whose sister was interested in the history of the family, and who gave him information from old manuscripts and tradition, which has been used elsewhere herein.
1351. Henry Legrand: b. Jan. 8, 1850: lived in Bellevue, Iowa.
    Children of Legrand and Maria Wynkoop:
1352. Lillie May: b. Nov. 16, 1858.
1353. Mary Darker: b. Oct. 15, 1860.
1354. John Frederick: b. Jan. 15, 1869: d. Nov. 26, 1869.

    Chris