This appeared on May 18, four weeks after Sam Houston had taken the Mexican president; but it was the first intimation New York had had of the victory at San Jacinto. During the investigation of the murder of Helen Jewett and the trial of Richard P. Robinson, the suspect, the _Sun_ attacked Bennett for the manner in which the _Herald_ handled the case. Bennett saw a good yellow story in the murder, for the house in which the murdered girl had lived could not be said to be questionable; there was no doubt about its character. Bennett’s interviewing of the victim’s associates did not please the _Sun_, which pictured the unfortunate women “mobbed by several hundred vagabonds of all sizes and ages--amongst whom the long, lank figure of the notorious Bennett was most conspicuous.” When it was not Bennett, it was Colonel Webb or one of his men. The _Sun_ went savagely after the proprietor of the _Courier and Enquirer_ because he led the hissing at the Park Theatre against Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wood, the English opera-singers. The offence of the Woods lay in giving a performance on an evening when a benefit was announced for Mrs. Conduit, another popular vocalist. The town was divided upon the row, but as the Woods and Mrs. Conduit were all English-born, it was not a racial feud like the Macready-Forrest affair. The _Sun_ rebuked Colonel Webb particularly because, after booing at the Woods, he had refused Mr. Wood’s offer to have it out over pistols and coffee. Wood was not a lily-finger. He had been plain Joe Wood, the pugilist, before he married the former Lady Lennox and embraced tenor song in a serious way. Society rather took the part of the Woods, for after the Park Theatre row a dinner in their compliment was arranged by Henry Ogden, Robert C. Wetmore, Duncan C. Pell, John P. Hone, Carroll Livingston, and other leading New Yorkers. The fearlessness of the _Sun_ did not stop with saucing its contemporaries. When Robinson was acquitted of the Jewett murder, after a trial which the _Sun_ reported to the extent of nearly a page a day, the _Sun_ editorially declared: Our opinion, calmly and dispassionately formed from the evidence, is that Richard P. Robinson is guilty of the wilful and peculiarly atrocious murder of Helen Jewett.... Any good-looking young man, possessing or being able to raise among his friends the sum of fifteen hundred dollars to retain Messrs. Maxwell, Price, and Hoffman for his counsel, might murder any person he chose with perfect impunity.