 The media seized upon the story; news spread to Philadelphia, Boston and beyond, with papers focusing on Crane's courage.The Stephen Crane story, as it became known, soon became a source for ridicule; the "Chicago Dispatch" in particular quipped that "Stephen Crane is respectfully informed that association with women in scarlet is not necessarily a 'Red Badge of Courage' ".A couple of weeks after her trial, Clark pressed charges of false arrest against the officer who had arrested her.