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 history of the San Francisco Police Department from the
date of its organization; an accurate history of the far-famed
Vigilance Committee; the Kearney riots; the life of Chief Justice
Terry, including the famous duel in which he killed United States
Senator Broderick and his tragic death while assaulting Justice
Field of the United States Supreme Court; also a synopsis of the
police and municipal history of the great earthquake and fire,
which contains much information which has not heretofore been
published. While this volume will show that in some instances
fabulous amounts of money have been unlawfully obtained, it will
also show that retribution invariably overtakes the professional
criminal and brings with it untold misery and degradation. Although
there are isolated cases where the perpetrator of an atrocious
crime succeeds in escaping the iron hand of the law, there is one
court he cannot escape, and that is the one "whose findings are
incontrovertible and whose sessions are held in the chambers of his
own breast." Watch for: The True Story of the Lindbergh Kidnapping
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