presumably Black Hand members, |
|in Lincoln Road, near Flatbush, early |
|yesterday morning, the police arrested |
|three men yesterday. |

Very often the present condition of the victim of an attempted murder
calls for a new story. The stories following the attempted murder of
Mayor Gaynor of New York are good examples of the latter. If a mystery
surrounds the crime a possible solution is grounds for a new story. The
stories which might follow the unraveling of the mystery surrounding the
fictitious death of the grocer, mentioned at the beginning of this
chapter, would be second-day murder stories. The original story, let us
say, was something like this:

| James White, a groceryman, was found |
|dying yesterday with a bullet wound in |
|his abdomen, in the cellar of his grocery|
|store at 1236 Park street. |

The next story on the murder would be concerned with the unraveling of
the mystery, thus:

| The preliminary inquiry yesterday by |
|Coroner John F. Donalds, into the |
|mysterious death of James White, the Park|
|street grocer, resulted in the conclusion|
|that White was murdered. |

And so the stories might run on day after day following the solution of
the case like the succeeding chapters of a continued novel, and each one
gives the synopsis of the preceding chapters in its lead, as every good
follow-up story should do.

Suicide stories seldom offer material for follow-up stories unless there
is some mystery surrounding the case. Sometimes the present condition of
a resuscitated victim of attempted suicide or the disposition of the
estate of a suicide offers material for rewriting.

Serious storms and floods are usually followed up for several days.
Readers are always interested in the present condition of the devastated
region. Very often the list of dead and injured is revised from day to
day, and any attempt to lend aid to the unfortunate victims is always a
reason for a later story.

Any meetings, conferences, trials, conventions, or the like must be
followed up day by day with succeeding stories. Each story is complete
in itself, but each one adds one more chapter to the report of the
meeting. This method of following a continued proceeding calls for a
series of follow-