"YOU look as if you was going to cut your throat." "Funny, Min, I was thinking of it." "Got any beer or gin-a mouthful of the real 'knock me down'?" "No, I haven't." "Oh, ain't it shocking.
Even where fiction has to follow fact as to type in dealing with detective, magistrate, landlady, waiter, etc., the characters that fulfil these parts are fictional and in no way even based upon those of the persons who were involved in the circumstances on which the first part of this novel is founded. Nothing but the bare outline and a few unimportant details have been used, and all the characters are entirely imaginary and are not portraits, in any way, of those connected with the actual crime of 1872 and the two arrests that followed. The facts of this case can easily be ascertained an account of the crime is included in several collections of studies in criminology.
SOME of the early incidents in the following novel are founded upon a well-known murder mystery which took place in 1872.
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