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