This was a big beat, for the young men of the _Courier and Enquirer_, and perhaps of the _Herald_, had been trying to get a yarn from the criminal, a Spaniard who had served in foreign wars, had been captured by savages in Africa, and had had many other adventures. Fernandez was convicted of killing another sailor for his attention to Fernandez’s mistress, a Mrs. Schultz; and for about three weeks Locke spent several hours a day in the condemned man’s cell. The “Life and Adventures,” which was printed on the first page of the _Sun_, ran serially from November 14 to November 25, and was read with avidity. It was ironical that the hero of the story, who had expressed to Locke an eagerness to have his career set before the public in its true light, was prevented from reading the later instalments; for the law, taking no cognizance of the literary side of the matter, went about its business, and Fernandez was hanged in the Bellevue yard on the 19th, a morning when the _Sun’s_ narrative had wrecked the sailor off the coast of Wales. Mr. Locke reported the execution and drew upon the autopsy to verify the “Adventures.” It is an interesting fact that the corpse of Fernandez exhibited marks of all those serious injuries which are recorded in the course of our narrative of his life, more particularly that dreadful fracture of his vertebræ which he suffered in Leghorn. The mere word of a “medical gentleman immediately from Scotland” was no longer to be relied upon! The _Sun’s_ story of the great fire of December, 1835, sounds like Locke, but it may have been written by one of the other bright young men who worked for Benjamin H. Day. Among them were William M. Prall, who succeeded Wisner as the court reporter, and Lucius Robinson. “Robinson seemed to be a young man of excellent ideas, but not very highly educated,” Mr. Day remarked about fifty years later. Perhaps the Day standards were very high. Robinson was twenty six when he worked on the _Sun_. He had been educated at an academy in Delhi, New York, and after that had studied law and been admitted to the bar. He was too poor to practise at once, and went into newspaper work to make a living. After leaving the _Sun_ he was elected district attorney of Greene County, and in 1843 was appointed master of chancery in New York. He left the Democratic party when the Republican party was organized, but returned to his old political allegiance after the Civil War. In 1876 he was elected Governor of New York--an achievement which still left him a little less famous than his fellow reporter, Locke. “Give us one of your real Moscow fires,” sighed the _Sun_ in the first week of its existence.