A Servant of Satan: Romantic Career of Prado the Assassin — page 13: what you’re looking at

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PREP AO Ey. = “<Prado was a wonderful fellow,” said Chief Inspector Byrnes, of the New York police, recently, ‘‘and for crim- inal ingenuity and devilishness stands without a peer. I question whether cupidity lay at the foundation of his dia- bolical work, inclining to the belief that some great wrong worked on his mind and embittered him against the wealth- ier members of the class of women whom he selected as his * victims. Certainly the opening chapters of the story would indicate as much. ‘The fact that this recital of Prado’s crimes is made up from notes furnished by the man him- self makes it unusually interesting, and the splendidly writ- ten and graphically illustrated story will find a place in the scrap-book of every police detective in the country. ‘“{ do not think a career like Prado’s in Paris could be possible in this city. Our police system isso different from _ that of Paris that we can weave a net about criminals much easier. Wedo not have tounreel miles of red tape before starting out on a hunt for criminals, but are at work with scores of detectives, aided by the entire force, if necessary, before a victim of murder is fairly cold. Weseek motives, study the antecedents and acquaintances of the slain, and, following clew after clew, we make it so warm for an assassin that he seeks safety rather than a duplication of crime. Prado, however, was an assassin far above the average of men in intelligence and ingenuity, and gave evidence of having moved in high circles of society, and I should not be surprised if the story will make clear his identity to stu- dents of the ‘ Almanac de Gotha.’”—WNew York World. ‘4 } , es Eomicbooks:com