ing |
|love," "honey," "sweetheart," "dear beloved," |
|"little love," and just plain "love." Boynton |
|claimed that the letters were forged. |

=113. Boxed Summaries and Features.=--When a story is unusually long and
complicated and the number of details numerous, or when important points
or facts need particular emphasis, it is customary to make a digest of
the principal items and box them in display type before the regular
lead. Boxed summaries at the beginning of a story are really determined
by the city editor and the copy readers, but a grouping of the
outstanding facts for boxing is often a welcome suggestion and a
valuable help to the sub-editors. If the reporter is in doubt about the
need of a boxed summary, he may make it on a separate sheet and place it
on the city editor's desk along with the regular story. Types of stories
that most frequently have boxed summaries are accidents, with lists of
the dead and the injured in bold-face type; important athletic and
sporting events, with summaries of the records, the crowds in
attendance, the gate receipts, etc.; speeches, trials, and executions,
with epigrams and the most important utterances of the judges, lawyers,
witnesses, or defendants; international diplomatic letters, with the
main points of discussion or most threatening statements; lengthy
governmental reports, etc. An illustration of the boxed summary is the
following, featuring the last statement of Charles Becker, the New York
police lieutenant, electrocuted in 1915 for the death of Herman
Rosenthal:

=POLICE OFFICER PAYS PENALTY WITH HIS LIFE=
+----------------------------------------------------+
| |
| "MY DYING STATEMENT." |
| |
| "Gentlemen: I stand before you in my full senses, |
| knowing that no power on earth can save me from the|
| grave that is to receive me. In the face of that, |
| in the face of those who condemn me, and in the |
| presence of my God and your God, I proclaim my |
| absolute innocence of the foul crime for which I |
| must die. |
| |
| "You are now about to witness my destruction by the|
| state which is organized to protect the lives