[Gutenberg 47445] • Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World

The Devil and the Grafter

AND HOW THEY WORK TOGETHER TO DECEIVE, SWINDLE AND DESTROY MANKIND

AN ARMY OF 600,000 CRIMINALS AT WAR WITH SOCIETY AND RELIGION

The World-Famous Criminologist and Detective

"The Incorruptible Sherlock Holmes of America"

After twenty years of heroic warfare and scores of hair-breadth

escapes, in his unceasing battle with the devil and the grafter,

Mr. Wooldridge tells in a graphic manner how Wildcat Insurance,

Fake Mines and Oil Wells, Turf Swindlers, Home Buying Swindlers,

Fake Bond and Investment Companies, Bucket Shops, Blind

Pools in Grain and Stocks, Pool Rooms and Hand Books, Fake

Mail Order Houses, ordinary Gambling Houses, Panel Houses,

Matrimonial Bureaus, Fake Underwriting, Fake Banks, Collecting

Agencies, Fake Medicine Companies, Clairvoyants, Fortune Tellers,

Palmists and other criminals of all classes operate, and how their

organizations have been broken up and destroyed by hundreds.

CONTENTS

Preface

Testimonials

Biography of the Author

Graft Nation's Worst Foe

The "Never-Fail" System to Beat the Get-Rich-Quick Swindles

The Best Rules for Health

Matrimonial Agents Coining Cupid's Wiles

The Great Mistake. Our Penal System is a Relic of Early Savagery

Vagrants, Who and Why

The Young Criminals and How They Are Bred in Chicago

Wiles of Fortune Telling

Wife or Gallows

A Clever Shop Lifter (Fainting Bertha)

Front

The Criminal's Last Chance Gone

Burglary a Science

Cell Terms for "Con" Men

Panel-House Thieves

Gambling and Crime

A Heartless Fraud

The Bogus Mine

A Giant Swindle

Quacks

Fabulous Losses in Big Turf Frauds

Fake Drug Vendors

Bucket-Shop

On "Sure Things." How to Learn Their Real Character

Huge Swindles Bared

The Social Evil

Suppress Manufacture and Sale of Dangerous Weapons

Getting Something for Nothing

Want Ad. Fakers

Millionaire Banker and Broker Arrested

Dora McDonald

Mike McDonald