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Times, under Jones's supervision, was given to
George Shepard, who for some time had been one of
the political editorial writers. In the 1901 Jubilee
Supplement of The Times Shepard's editorship was thus characterized: "The decorum and solid ability which had long characterized The Times were perfectly safe in his hands, but sprightliness was undoubtedly lacking." There were those on the paper, however, who had perhaps an excess of sprightliness, and chief of these was Louis J. Jennings, a man with a great deal of talent, a great deal of temperament, and a character so commingled of opposite qualities that one wonders alternately why he did not achieve brilliant success, and how he managed to get as far as he did. Jennings was an Englishman, who had edited The Times of India, served as American correspondent of The London Times just after the Civil War, and then written London correspondence for The New York Times. He seems to have had an affection for the name, and during Bigelow's brief editorship he had been added to the editorial staff of the paper.
Shortly after Shepard took over the direction of the editorial page, on November 25, 1869, there was a murder in the Tribune office. Albert D. Richardson, one of the stockholders in and contributors to that paper, was shot and mortally wounded by a gentleman whose wife had left him for a complex of reasons of which Richardson was one. Mrs. McFarland had obtained a divorce in Indiana, her husband having been served by publication in local papers, and she was married to Richardson on his deathbed. Two or three eminent clergymen signalized
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