The misdemeanor was based on Sullivan's doing business without being
properly registered at Harrisburg, and he was charged with violating
a city ordinance for running a brokerage office without taking out a
city license. He was held, for court in $1,000 bail on the misdemeanor
charge and was fined $25 on the other.
George T. Sullivan, the Napoleon of frenzied finance, cut a large
figure in Chicago. From a telegraph operator in the pool rooms and
bucketshops at a salary of $18 per week, he acquired enough in the
short space of two years to own and operate the largest bucketshop in
the United States.
He soared high in the money circles, but at last was brought crashing
to the earth, a financial wreck. He was convicted of keeping a
bucketshop and gambling house. He went bankrupt, hounded to death by
his creditors, many of whom he had wrecked.
He was cited to appear in the United States Court for violating an
injunction, and warrants had been sworn out by the postal authorities
for using the mails to defraud the public.
He took his freight from Chicago to new fields of pasture. Wine, women
and high financing brought his downfall.
[Illustration: DORA McDONALD.]
DORA McDONALD.