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
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
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
"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
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 Friends Still Anxious--Efforts to Prove Him a British Spy--A Big Reward Offered 101
Hoping against Hope--The Stench in the Sewer--"Murder Will Out"--A Ghastly Discovery--Where the Body was Found--The Recognition by Captain Wing--Its Horrible Appearance--Evidences of a Foul Crime--The Corpse at the Morgue--Pitiable Scenes of Grief--The Official Autopsy--The Brutal Way in Which the Physician had been Done to Death 126
The Crime Creates An International Sensation--Discovery of the Lonely Cottage Where the Irish Nationalist Met His Death--Evidences of a Terrible Struggle--The Tell-Tale Blood Stains and Broken Furniture--The Mysterious Tenants and Their Movements--The Furniture Bought and Carted to the Assassins' Den--What Milkman Mertes Saw--The Plot as Outlined by the Surroundings--Iceman O'Sullivan Under Surveillance 154