This volume, which is the first history published of the celebrated criminal cases in America, includes the most important cases during the past eighty years. They have been collected after years of systematic investigation and verified with the assistance of police officials throughout America, without whose co-operation an authentic history would be impossible. The hundred and ten cases presented in this volume should prove interesting to the general reader because of the psychological and, in many cases, the historical interest which attaches to them. This book also contains a brief...