In November 1874, a Scranton newsboy found a man dying at the foot of an embankment on Mifflin Avenue. What followed was a murder investigation that led straight to the city's own Chief of Police, and then, stranger still, a year-long political war over who actually held that job. This one has it all: a mob beating, a bribed mayor, three simultaneous police chiefs, and a family legacy that outlived the scandal.