$1,500,000 was stolen annually from 1889 to October, 1896.
At that time there were 64 uniformed officers stationed
in front of the panel houses. Detectives Wooldridge
and Schubert were assigned to break them, which was
accomplished in three weeks' time.
100 bucketshops raided and closed; $5,000,000 lost through
them.
July 31, 1900, Detective Wooldridge, in charge of 50
officers, arrested 415 men and landed them in the Harrison
Street Police Station, and dismantled the following
bucketshops:
10 and 12 Pacific avenue, 25 Sherman street, 14 Pacific
avenue, 10 Pacific avenue, 210 Opera House Block, 7
Exchange court, 19 Lyric Building, and 37 Dearborn street.
It was one of the largest and most sensational raids ever
made in Chicago, and will be long remembered.
73 opium joints raided and closed; $100,000 spent, and hundreds of
persons were wrecked and ruined by the use of opium.
75 girls under age rescued from a house of ill fame and a life of
shame, and returned to their parents or guardians, or sent to the
Juvenile School or the House of Good Shepherd.