This is the fourth in a series.

During 1922, Ellis Parker, the famous Burlington County detective, was repeatedly in the national spotlight as he was instrumental in solving three highly publicized murder cases. In December of that year, the murder trial of a nationally known circus owner, John T. Brunen, began as the victim sat in an easy chair in Riverside, N.J.

Parker had uncovered a conspiracy among Brunen’s wife, her brother Harry Mohr and a third man, Charles Powell, from whom Parker had gotten a confession.

On the eve of the trial, a New York paper had obtained an exclusive interview from the Mount Holly jail.