THE ASTOUNDING CRIME ON TORRINGTON ROAD

THE ASTOUNDING CRIME ON TORRINGTON ROAD

BEING AN ACCOUNT OF WHAT MIGHT BE TERMED “THE PENTECOST EPISODE” IN A MOST AUDACIOUS CRIMINAL CAREER

BY William Gillette

HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS New York and London, Mcmxxvii

THE ASTOUNDING CRIME ON TORRINGTON ROAD COPYRIGHT, 1927, BY WILLIAM GILLETTE PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. E-B

THIS RECITAL

—AS TAKEN DOWN AND THEN SET FORTH HEREIN—IS DIVIDED INTO SEVEN PARTS OR SECTIONS WHICH MAY BE ROUGHLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:

PART I: Leading up to the arrangement that Andrew Howard Barnes finally succeeded in making with Horace McClintock for the Reporting of the Facts in This Most Unusual Series of Events. Page 1

PART II: Introducing Hugo Pentecost and his Partner Stephen W. Harker, with a side light thrown on the Business Methods employed by this firm. Also defining the Steps which led Mr. Pentecost to call at the House on Torrington Road. Page 20

PART III: Dealing with old Michael Cripps and his Synthetic Family—thus making it clear how Charles Haworth came to be the Sole Occupant of the old Cripps Mansion. Page 44

PART IV: Attempting to convey Some Idea of the Overwhelming Passion that swept upon Charles Haworth and Edith Findlay when the Findlays came to live at the House on Torrington Road. Page 67

PART V: Wherein is set forth the Painful Predicament which soon involved the Young Couple, and the Vast Relief which ensued upon the Sale of the Haworth Machine to Harker and Pentecost. Page 112

PART VI: Touching on the Amazing Preparations for and the Hideous Details of the Crime that took place in the Cripps Mansion and Describing the Activities of the Police in connection therewith as well as the Behavior of Others Concerned in this Appalling Affair. Page 169

PART VII: Giving an account of the Attempts of Certain Persons no longer enjoying an Earthly Existence to take part in the Investigation of the Crime and the Final Result of this Most Amazing Interference. Page 259

THE ASTOUNDING CRIME ON TORRINGTON ROAD