e the source of many of the stories of crime,
mentioned before, but many stories turn up at the police courts which
are not concerned with crime, although in some cases they are concerned
with criminals. In this field of reporting there are many opportunities
for the human-interest story which will be taken up in a later chapter.
When the incident is reported in an ordinary news story the feature is
usually in some attendant circumstance and the story might well be
classed with one of the above groups. Here are two examples from the
daily press:

| Because he did not have sufficient |
|money to buy flowers for his sweetheart, |
|Henry Trupke, aged 21 years, forged a |
|check for $22.50 on a grocer, J. |
|Sieberlich, 781 Third street, and after a|
|week's chase was caught last night as he |
|got off a Wisconsin Central |
|train.--_Milwaukee Sentinel._ |

| But a few hours before receiving a |
|sentence of two years in the house of |
|correction for stealing furs from the |
|store of Lohse Bros., 117 Wisconsin |
|street, John Garner, self-confessed |
|thief, was married to Rose Strean, one |
|of the witnesses in the case, which was |
|tried yesterday in the municipal |
|court.--_Milwaukee Free Press._ |

=7. Reports of Meetings, Conferences, Decisions, etc.=--This group
includes all reports of meetings, or conferences, of bodies of any sort,
political or otherwise, reports of judicial or legislative hearings or
decisions, or announcements of resolutions passed. Such as:

| WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.--Acquisition of |
|the telegraph lines by the government and|
|their operation as a part of the postal |
|system is the latest idea of Postmaster |
|General Hitchcock. Announcement was made |
|today that a resolution to this effect |
|will be offered to Congress at the |
|present session.--_Wisconsin State |
|Journal._ |

There is always one thing in these stories that gives them news
value--the purpose or result of the conference, hearing, or
announcement. This