In May 1889 Dr. Patrick Henry Cronin, a Chicago physician active in Irish nationalist circles, was lured from his home on a false sick call and never seen alive again; his battered body turned up in a sewer. This contemporary account traces the disappearance, the investigation into feuds within the Clan na Gael, and the long trial of the accused.
A detailed period record of one of the most notorious American murders of the Gilded Age, for true-crime and Chicago history readers. Download the free EPUB.