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sal, to grasp or comprehend anything more than the barest outline of this remarkable case. The object of this volume therefore, is to present in consecutive form and as a complete narrative all the facts which have been brought to light from the day of the disappearance of Dr. Cronin, to the close of the trial of those accused of his murder. Many circumstances have combined to make the task a difficult and laborious one, but the results are submitted in the belief that as the only effort of its kind, it will prove not only a story of thrilling interest to the general reader, but also valuable, by its accuracy and continuity, as an historical work. THE AUTHOR. CONTENTS. PAGE. CHAPTER I. A Crime That Shocked the Civilized World--The Mysterious Stranger--A Sudden Summons--The Instincts of Humanity Triumph over Personal Considerations--Last Moments at Home--Parting Words with a Friend--Dr. Cronin's Eventful Life--How He Worked His Way Upward on the Ladder of Honor and Fame, 15 CHAPTER II. Dr. Cronin Fails to Return Home--Anxiety of His Friends-- The Early Morning Ride to the Ice House--O'Sullivan's Surprise and Ignorance--The Mysterious Wagon and Its Occupants--A Bloody Trunk is Found--The Search Commenced-- "It is His Hair," 27 CHAPTER III. An Accidental Clue--Frank Woodruff's Arrest--How He Was Hired to Get a Wagon to Carry the Mysterious Trunk to Lake View--A Corpse is Dumped Out--He Thinks It was That of a Woman--His Sensational Confession--The Police on a Wild-Goose Chase, 46 CHAPTER IV. "It is a Conspiracy"--Dr. Cronin's Friends Claim the Murder was a Political Assassination--The Public Skeptical until Startling Developments Are Made--The Physician in Danger of His Life for Years--Previous Attempts to Remove Him--The Trouble in the Clan-na-Gael--Charges and Counter Charges--The Buffalo Convention--Why His "Removal" became a Necessity to Certain People, 57 CHAPTER V. Strange Influences at Work--Miss Anna Murphy Thinks She Saw the Doctor on a Street Car--His Long and Mysterious Ride with Conductor Dwyer--Reporter Long also Encounters Him, This Time in Toronto--The Police and Public Satisfied, but His F
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