BY ANNA KATHARINE GREEN (MRS. CHARLES ROHLFS) Author of “The Leavenworth Case,” “Hand and Ring,” “Marked ‘Personal,’” etc., etc. G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS NEW YORK LONDON 27 West Twenty-third Street 24 Bedford Street, Strand The Knickerbocker Press 1895 Copyright , 1895 BY ANNA KATHARINE ROHLFS All rights reserved Electrotyped, Printed and Bound by The Knickerbocker Press, New York G. P. Putnam’s Sons...

O n the 17th of July, 1851, a tragedy of no little interest occurred in one of the residences of the Colonnade in Lafayette Place. Mr. Hasbrouck, a well-known and highly respected citizen, was attacked in his room by an unknown assailant, and shot dead before assistance could reach him. His murderer escaped, and the problem offered to the police was, how to identify this person who, by some happy chance or by the exercise of the most remarkable forethought, had left no traces behind him, or any

W hen I related to my superiors the details of the foregoing interview, two of them coincided with the wife in thinking that Dr. Zabriskie was in an irresponsible condition of mind which made any statement of his questionable. But the third seemed disposed to argue the matter, and, casting me an inquiring look, seemed to ask what my opinion was on the subject. Answering him as if he had spoken, I gave my conclusion as follows: That whether insane or not, Dr. Zabriskie had fired the shot which te

T he cause of this sudden move was soon explained to me. Mrs. Zabriskie, anxious to have an end put to the present condition of affairs, had begged for a more rigid examination into her husband’s state. This being accorded, a strict and impartial inquiry had taken place, with a result not unlike that which followed the first one. Three out of his four interrogators judged him insane, and could not be moved from their opinion though opposed by the verdict of the young expert who had been living i

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