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Updated: May 4, 2025
Clarence flung the boy a halfpenny, tore a paper from his grasp, and scanned it eagerly. There was nothing to interest him in the body of the journal, but he found what he was looking for in the stop-press space. "Stop press news," said the paper. "Fry not out, 104. Surrey 147 for 8. A German army landed in Essex this afternoon. Loamshire Handicap: Spring Chicken, 1; Salome, 2; Yip-i-addy, 3.
He was recalled to his surroundings by a hand laid on his arm. He started and looked round. The man next to him, with a glance at the paper in his hand, asked him if he could tell him the winner of the second race at Lingfield. "It ought to be in the stop-press," he murmured.
But this fear passed from her in the matchless fascination of reading and re-reading five words in the stop-press column: "MINCHIN CASE Verdict, Not guilty." Not guilty! Not guilty! And to see it in print! Her eyes filled at the sight, and she dried them to gloat again.
Marrier showed him the stop-press news of a penny evening paper, which read: "Sir John Pilgrim has abandoned his ceremonious departure from Tilbury, in order to lay the corner-stone of the new Regent Theatre on Wednesday week. He and Miss Cora Pryde will join the Kandahar at Marseilles." "You needn't do any advertaysing," said Mr. Marrier. "Pilgrim will do all the advertaysing for you."
On the same evening, I was returning from the hospital and saw the following words on a poster: "Blue Disease in Birmingham." I bought a paper and scanned the columns rapidly. In the stop-press news I read: "The Blue Disease has appeared in Birmingham. Cases are reported all over the city. The Public Health Department are considering what measures should be adopted.
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