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 Friends Still Anxious--Efforts to Prove Him a British Spy--A Big Reward Offered 101 CHAPTER VI. 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 CHAPTER VII. 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 CHAPTER VIII. The White Horse and Buggy--Detective Coughlin Hires It for a "Friend"--The Trouble in the Stable--Dinan Goes to Schaack--The Captain's Peculiar Movements--Scanlan Identifies the Horse--The Detective and O'Sullivan are Jailed--The Grand Jury Indicts Them with Woodruff--The Accused Arraigned in Court 195 CHAPTER IX. The Lying in State--An Impressive Scene--The Imposing Procession--At the Cathedral--An Eloquent Voice from the Pulpit--Clerical Denunciation of the Crime--Laid to Rest in Calvary Cemetery 220 CHAPTER X.