ts of him in the various _Who's
Who_ volumes and probably a rather full obituary all ready in the
morgue. One must be careful in using the morgue write-up, however, to
bridge naturally and easily the gap between the new and the old
material, so that the reader shall not suspect he is reading a story
partly written years ago. The following is an illustration of poor
coherence between the two parts:

|Paris, August 12.--Pol Plancon, the opera singer, |
|died to-day. He had been ill since June. |
| ------- |
|Pol Plancon was a bass singer and made his Paris |
|debut in the part of Mephistopheles in 1883. He came|
|to the Metropolitan Opera house in New York in 1893,|
|where he sang with Melba, Calve, Eames, Nordica and |
|Jean and Edouard de Reszke. Plancon sang for many |
|years at Covent Garden, London.... |

In this case it is too obvious that the first two sentences constitute
the bare cable bulletin and that the second paragraph is the beginning
of the morgue story.

=227. Crime Lead.=--In the lead to a crime story, one may feature
either the names of the persons involved, the number of lives lost or
endangered, the motive of the criminal, the nature of the crime, clues
leading to the identification and arrest of the criminal, possible
effects of the crime, or even public sentiment resulting from the deed.
Of the possible leads, probably the names of the persons involved,
either of the criminal or of those whose rights were infringed, are most
often played up. Thus:

|Leo M. Frank was lynched two miles outside of |
|Marietta, the home of Mary Phagan, at an early hour |
|this morning. |

|Mrs. Allie Detmann, 1409 Broad St., was shot and |
|killed yesterday by Stanley Mouldan, 1516 |
|Philadelphia Ave. The man then shot himself in the |
|right temple, dying an hour later in St. Elizabeth's|
|Hospital. |

The other features, however, may be found at random in any paper.
Illustrations are:

_Number of Lives Lost_

|Two women are dead at the Good Shepherd's Rest |
|because Pat Nicke kept the back door of his saloon |
|open on election day. |

_Motive_

|To get money to pay for his grandmother's funeral, |