On December 2, 1919, on the same day that Canadian theater tycoon Ambrose Small received a check for one million dollars, he vanished in the streets of downtown Toronto, leaving his money behind safely deposited in a nearby bank. Small's bizarre disappearance captured the imagination of the press worldwide and was for the longest time dubbed "Crime of the Century." Headlines in London, New York, Los Angeles and Chicago announced that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, was to consult the investigation. Frustrated Toronto Police hired clairvoyants in their desperation. A $50,000 reward was offered for information about Small's disappearance, an extraordinary sum in those days. No trace of the vanished millionaire was ever found. This was a fun stone to tour, this was the detective that was tasked to finding him. #cemetery #headstone #graveyard_dead #tv_churchandgraves #graveyard_life #grave_affair #aj_graveyards #project_necropolis #grave_gallery #grave #burial #voodoo_society #headstone #graveyard_freaks #mountpleasantcemetery #toronto #tours #cemeterytours (at Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpzNmdOHLMC/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=164z4e0whaeud