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THE LOCK AND KEY LIBRARY
THE MOST INTERESTING STORIES OF ALL NATIONS
Edited by Julian Hawthorne
REAL LIFE
Table of contents
PART I--DETECTIVE STORIES FROM
REAL LIFE
ARTHUR TRAIN
A Flight into Texas
P. H. WOODWARD
Adventures in the Secret Service of the Post-Office Department
An Erring Shepherd
An Aspirant for Congress
The Fortune of Seth Savage

A Wish Unexpectedly Gratified
An Old Game Revived
A Formidable Weapon

ANDREW LANG
Saint-Germain the Deathless
The Man in the Iron Mask
The Legend
The Valet's History
The Valet's Master
Original Papers in the Case of Roux De Marsilly

PART II--TRUE STORIES OF MODERN
MAGIC
M. ROBERT-HOUDIN
A Conjurer's Confessions
Self-Training
"Second Sight"
The Magician Who Became an Ambassador
Facing the Arab's Pistol

DAVID P. ABBOTT
Fraudulent Spiritualism Unveiled
A Doctor of the Occult
How the Tricks Succeeded
The Name of the Dead
Mind Reading in Public
Some Famous Exposures
HEREWARD CARRINGTON
More Tricks of "Spiritualism"
"Matter through Matter"
Deception Explained by the Science of Psychology
ANONYMOUS
How Spirits Materialize


PART I--DETECTIVE STORIES FROM
REAL LIFE

Arthur Train
A Flight into Texas

The flight and extradition of Charles F. Dodge unquestionably involved
one of the most extraordinary battles with justice in the history of the
criminal law. The funds at the disposal of those who were interested in
procuring the prisoner's escape were unlimited in extent, and the arch
conspirator for whose safety Dodge was spirited away was so
influential in political and criminal circles that he was all but successful
in defying the prosecutor of New York County, even supported as the
latter was by the military and judicial arm of the United States
Government. For, at the time that Dodge made his escape, a whisper
from Hummel was enough to make the dry bones of many a powerful
and ostensibly respectable official rattle and the tongue cleave to the
roof of his mouth in terror.
(The District Attorney's office in New York City is undoubtedly one of
the best watch-towers known from which to observe "Real Life
Detective Stories."
Arthur Train, sometime member of this prosecuting staff, has
opportunity to record several of these curious and exciting "True
Stories of Crime" (copyright, 1908, by Charles Scribners Sons). None
yields less to fiction save in the fact that it is true, and not at all in
quality of dramatic interest, than "A Flight into Texas," here given.
Readers of the newspapers a few years ago will remember the names of
Abraham Hummel and Charles F. Dodge. The latter, a railroad
conductor, was alleged to have committed perjury at the dictate of the
former, known as one of the brightest, least scrupulous lawyers in this
city. It was one of District Attorney Jerome's great ambitions to bring
Hummel to justice. Here was an opportunity. If Dodge could only be
forced to testify to this perjury before a court, Hummel could
undoubtedly be convicted of a crime that would