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Blood runs green : the murder that transfixed gilded age Chicago / Gillian O'Brien

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Historical studies of urban AmericaCopyright date: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, ©2015Description: xiii, 303 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780226248950 (hardcover)
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Contents:
Prologue : Requiem -- "City of big shoulders" : the convergence of the Clan -- The United Brotherhood -- The "Dynamite war" -- "Secret hatreds" : a tale of two trials -- "Boys, I give up" -- "The darkest and bloodiest mysteries of secret crime" -- "The whisper of silence" -- "Truth in essentials, imagination in non-essentials" : the press and public -- Entertainment -- "A theatre of great sensations" -- "Remember Cronin"
Summary: It was the biggest funeral Chicago had seen since Lincoln's. On May 26, 1889, 4,000 mourners proceeded down Michigan Avenue, followed by a crowd 40,000 strong, in a howl of protest at what commentators called one of the ghastliest and most curious crimes in civilised history. The dead man, Dr P.H. Cronin, was a respected Irish physician, but his brutal murder uncovered a web of intrigue, secrecy, and corruption that stretched across the United States and far beyond. Gillian O'Brien tells the story of his murder from the police investigation to the trial.
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Includes bibliographical references and index

Prologue : Requiem -- "City of big shoulders" : the convergence of the Clan -- The United Brotherhood -- The "Dynamite war" -- "Secret hatreds" : a tale of two trials -- "Boys, I give up" -- "The darkest and bloodiest mysteries of secret crime" -- "The whisper of silence" -- "Truth in essentials, imagination in non-essentials" : the press and public -- Entertainment -- "A theatre of great sensations" -- "Remember Cronin"

It was the biggest funeral Chicago had seen since Lincoln's. On May 26, 1889, 4,000 mourners proceeded down Michigan Avenue, followed by a crowd 40,000 strong, in a howl of protest at what commentators called one of the ghastliest and most curious crimes in civilised history. The dead man, Dr P.H. Cronin, was a respected Irish physician, but his brutal murder uncovered a web of intrigue, secrecy, and corruption that stretched across the United States and far beyond. Gillian O'Brien tells the story of his murder from the police investigation to the trial.

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