20,000 ARRESTS MADE
12,900 CONVICTIONS ON STATE AND CITY LAWS
200 PENITENTIARY CONVICTIONS
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
BY CLIFTON R. WOOLDRIDGE
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.