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Prado.
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A SERVANT OF SATAN.
Romantic Career of PRADO the Assassin.
From Notes Communicated to a Friend on the Eve of His Execution.
An Extraordinary Record of Crime in Many Lands—He was Reared in a Royal Palace.
The Great Riddle which the French Police were Unable to Solve.
By LOUIS BERARD.
NEW YORK:
STREET & SMITH, Publishers,
31 Rose Street.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1889,
By Street & Smith,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.
PREFACE.
“Prado was a wonderful fellow,” said Chief InspectorByrnes, of the New York police, recently, “and for criminalingenuity and devilishness stands without a peer. Iquestion whether cupidity lay at the foundation of his diabolicalwork, inclining to the belief that some great wrongworked on his mind and embittered him against the wealthiermembers of the class of women whom he selected as hisvictims. Certainly the opening chapters of the story wouldindicate as much. The fact that this recital of Prado'scrimes is made up from notes furnished by the man himselfmakes it unusually interesting, and the splendidly writtenand graphically illustrated story will find a place in thescrap-book of every police detective in the country.
“I do not think a career like Prado's in Paris could bepossible in this city. Our police system is so diffe