[Gutenberg 47445] • Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World
- Authors
- Wooldridge, Clifton R.
- Tags
- crime -- illinois -- chicago , police -- illinois -- chicago
- Date
- 2014-12-03T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 11.59 MB
- Lang
- en
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