True Stories of Crime From the District Attorney's Office

With them and all they had, 'twas lightly come and lightly go; and when we left them my master said to me: "This is thy first lesson, but to-night we shall be at Hamburgh. Come with me to the 'rotboss' there, and I'll show thee all our folk and their lays, and especially 'the loseners,' 'the dutzers,' 'the schleppers.'"... "Enow!" cried I, stopping him, "art as gleesome as the evil one a-counting of his imps. I'll jot down in my tablet all these caitiffs and their accursed names; for knowledge is knowledge. But go among them alive or dead, that I will not with my good will."

PREFACE

ILLUSTRATIONS

I. The Woman in the Case

II. Five Hundred Million Dollars

III. The Lost Stradivarius

IV. The Last of the Wire-Tappers

V. The Franklin Syndicate

VI. A Study in Finance

VII. The "Duc de Nevers"