A. B. MacDonald was a journalist for the Kansas City Star who won a Pulitzer Prize for Reporting

Pulitzer Prize for Reporting

The Pulitzer Prize for Reporting was awarded from 1917 to 1947.-Winners:*1917: Herbert Bayard Swope, New York World, for articles which appeared October 10, October 15 and from November 4 daily to November 22, 1916, inclusive, entitled, "Inside the German Empire."*1918: Harold A...

 in 1931 for "his work in connection with a murder in Amarillo, Texas

Amarillo, Texas

Amarillo is the 14th-largest city, by population, in the state of Texas, the largest in the Texas Panhandle, and the seat of Potter County. A portion of the city extends into Randall County. The population was 190,695 at the 2010 census...

." On that assignment, he "solved a murder mystery . . . and brought a guilty man to justice."

Earlier, he had been "sent to Oklahoma to cover the chase of Harry Starr, a bandit who rode safely through a surrounding posse

Posse

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 because his sweetheart was on the horse with him and the possemen were too gallant to shoot."

After he was assigned to interview evangelist Billy Sunday

Billy Sunday

William Ashley "Billy" Sunday was an American athlete who, after being a popular outfielder in baseball's National League during the 1880s, became the most celebrated and influential American evangelist during the first two decades of the 20th century.Born into poverty in Iowa, Sunday spent some...

, he took a leave from the Star to go to New York to work as Sunday's publicity agent

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.