James Gordon Bennett

…It's clear Ned's little blackmailing scheme has come to an end. But the greatest indignity Ned suffers comes when the publisher of the major New York newspaper, The Herald, a man named James Gordon Bennett, runs a story mocking Ned for what happened on Broadway and in court. Now, people all over the city know his shame. Ned already can't stand Bennet.…

…They took her to Manhattan's prison, the Tombs, and transferred her to the Staten Island Jail. That day, the editor of the New York Herald, James Gordon Bennett, published a story about Polly.…

…But James Gordon Bennett published that a gang had killed Emmeline and her daughter.…