Page 137: Changed "is" to "it."
(Orig: give it the consideration is deserves.)
Page 140: Retained "Caverley," possible typo for "Caverly."
(Orig: was arrested and fined $15 by Caverley.)
Page 173: Changed "shoudl" to "should."
(Orig: to find if there shoudl be a chord)
Page 203: Changed "vigliance" to "vigilance."
(Orig: he is under the eternal vigliance of our police)
Page 222: Changed "snoke" to "smoke."
(Orig: I don't snoke.)
Page 240: Changed "nof" to "not."
(Orig: "Sophomoric" period is nof fully passed.)
Page 283: Changed "Dicharged" to "Discharged."
(Orig: Insane asylum, Nevada, Mo. Dicharged after several escapes.)
Page 294: Changed "indentification" to "identification."
(Orig: the finger print indentification.)
Page 296: Changed "lot" to "lost."
(Orig: sailor has lot his honorable discharge paper)
Page 301: Changed "rougues" to "rogues."
(Orig: spreading through the rougues' galleries)
Page 347: Opening quotes retained; no closing quotes in original.
(Orig: each witness claimed that the "contract was covered up and
they were shown just the part of the paper on which was the space for
signature; and Daubach performed many acts in furtherance of the
conspiracy.)
Page 351: Changed "slighest" to "slightest."
(Orig: It makes not the slighest difference)
Page 360: Changed "is" to "it."
(Orig: This is not merely because is loosens general morality)
Page 370: Changed "cildhood" to "childhood."
(Orig: toward speculation, even from cildhood.)
Page 373: Changed "nickle's" to "nickel's."
(Orig: good for a nickle's worth)
Page 378: Retained "sideway," possible typo for "slideway."
(Orig: clamp referred to down through the sideway)
Page 382: Sentence possibly missing "do" after "to."
(Orig: Very few are expert enough to this trick without detection.
Page 387: Changed "sailers" to "sailors."
(Orig: the goods were sold to soldiers and sailers.)
Page 406: Changed "torents" to "torrents."
(Orig: the rain which was beating down in torents)
Page 408: Incomplete sentence in original book.
(Orig: His counsel asked for the arrest of judgment so he might
have time to write up the record and present it to the)
Page 419: Changed "mammonth" to "mammoth."
(Orig: Prisoner accused as principal in mammonth swindling plot)
Page 462: Changed "numerious" to "numerous."
(Orig: clear Chicago of its numerious "Fake" patent medicine)
Page 465: Changed "Lavatories" to "Laboratories."
(Orig: Columbus Lavatories conducted the tests.)
Page 465: Retained "either," possible typo for "ether."
(Orig: Aristol is soluble in either, and makes a dark brown)
Page 467: Changed "sppply" to "supply."
(Orig: I have in stock and can sppply without delay.)
Page 468: Changed "Sargeant" to "Sergeant."
(Orig: Desk Sargeant Mike White)
Page 471: Retained original 300,000,000 but the math is incorrect.
Page 494: Changed "felling" to "feeling."
(Orig: the trusting investor the felling that there is a strong hand)
Page 514: Retained "grizzy," possible typo for "grizzly."
(Orig: look out for Indians and grizzy bears.)
Page 563: Retained Joseph Koehy/Koehly variations.
Page 565: Changed "answr" to "answer."
(Orig: to answr for the murder of Webster Guerin)
Page 568: Changed "women" to "woman."
(Orig: Dora McDonald was a wonderfully beautiful and younger women)
Retained spelling variations: R. W. McClaughrey and R. W. McClaughry.