3. As a police reporter, Nusbaum had many memorable escapades, but the one he recalled most fondly dealt with a 1912 murder case where the police were searching the city of Newark for the sole eye-witness to a murder, a mysterious "woman in red." He delighted in telling how he used his nose for news and found her.

He then put her up in a hotel room and infuriated the police by writing her first-person eye-witness account of the murder in his newspaper.