TALE OF A PHYSICIAN: OR THE SEEDS AND FRUITS OF CRIME.
IN THREE PARTS. COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME.BYANDREW JACKSON DAVIS.
"Truth is stranger than Fiction." SECOND THOUSAND.
BOSTON:
WILLIAM WHITE & COMPANY,
BANNER OF LIGHT OFFICE, 158 WASHINGTON STREET.
NEW YORK AGENTS—AMERICAN NEWS COMPANY.
1869.Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by ANDREW JACKSON DAVIS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the District of New Jersey. McCREA & MILLER, STEREOTYPERS, 50 Greene Street, N. Y.
- PART ONE. PLANTING THE SEEDS OF CRIME.
- PART TWO. TREES OF CRIME IN FULL BLOOM.
- PART THREE. REAPING THE FRUITS OF CRIME.
INTRODUCTORY.
THE following series of strange and startling and tragical events, which I am now called upon to make public for the first time, are, even to the minutest details, founded upon facts, with only a thin veil between the reader and the real characters whose temperaments, circumstances, temptations, virtues, vices, and crimes, are herein truthfully recorded.
The principal facts concerning the manifold causes which developed the "Mysterious Association of Criminals" in New York and vicinity, came to my knowledge about twenty-five years ago. The investigating reader, who is curious to know more on this interesting point, is referred to a volume by the author, entitled "The Present Age and Inner Life," pp. 259-265. The strange incident therein narrated will repay perusal.
It is believed that so long as mothers and daughters shall exist, such disclosures as are made in this volume can not but be productive of the best results. Not less are these fearful scenes important to fathers and sons. Because, if to be fore-warned is to be fore-armed, these horrible and truthful pictures of the causes of crime, and these faithful delineations of the ways of professional criminals, will serve as beacon lights and guideboards by which maidenhood and manhood can avoid the evil and choose the good.
A. J. D.
NEW YORK, April 20, 1869.