Taleverna

Cranmer’s notebook, though written in a precise hand, yet betrayed the man’s insanity by incoherence and frequent repetitions. My statement has been accepted now, both by alienists and by detectives who had entertained different theories in respect to the case. It quashes the noisome hints and suspicions regarding three of the finest Americans who ever lived--and also one queer supposition dealing with supposed criminal tendencies in poor Joe, the octoroon. John Corliss Cranmer _went_ insane for sufficient cause! *…