The Mystery of Elizabeth Canning: The Great Riddle of the Law Courts

xi, 209 pp. Introduction by John Henry Wigmore. Frontispiece removed. Illustrative sketches by Barrett R. Wellington. "A young girl of excellent reputation vanished one evening in the gloom of London's old streets. What actually took place, even with the help of her own account on her reappearance in a starved and almost dying state, and even with the evidence of a hundred and thirty three other witnesses, has never been determined to this day. Sympathized with as an innocent victim, she was also denounced as a heartlessly unscrupulous liar. Two juries brought in diametrically opposed verdicts."