trial. He also covered Prohibition, gangland killings, Daddy Browning and Peaches, and the Lindbergh flight to Paris.

Wary of desk jobs, he once said: "Never be a rewrite man, because it's a killing job. Never be a press agent. There's nothing on earth lower than a press agent -- unless maybe it's a copyreader."To illustrate the point to his son, he recalled what had happened to him when he covered the Pancho Villa insurrection