The Crime of the Century; Or, The Assassination of Dr. Patrick Henry Cronin

CHAPTER VI.

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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