This broke the panel-house keepers' backbone and they never recovered
to resume business again.
Emma Ford, sentenced to the penitentiary April 5, 1902,
for five years. Pearl Smith, her sister, sentenced to the
penitentiary June 19, 1893, for five years. Mary White, May
20, 1893, for two years. Flossie Moore, March 27, 1893, for
five years. Seventy-five thousand dollars is said to have
been stolen by her in eighteen months.
$8,000 bribe was offered Detective Wooldridge to let Flossie Moore
slip through his fingers.
$3,000 bribe was offered by the same woman for the address of Sadie
Jorden, who was an eye witness of the robbery of E. S. Johnson, a
retired merchant, aged 74 years.
28 wire tappers were raided and closed. These men secured the
quotations from the Board of Trade and pool rooms, and hundreds of
thousands of dollars were secured from the speculators who were
victimized; $200,000 lost.