One day last week an old Sicilian jumped off a Weehawken ferryboat and drowned himself. That is the proem. Here is the story.

[Proem. I didn’t know that word. It means prologue.]

HOW FLYNN FOILED THE SICILIAN COUNTERFEITERS: A Dime Novel in Real Life Is the Story of the International Conspiracy Which Came to an End Last Week With the Suicide of the Head of the Plot. (PDF)

From July 16, 1911