Twenty Years
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共 744 题- Twenty Years a Detective
- IN THE WICKEDEST CITY IN THE WORLD.
- THE WORK ALSO CONTAINS
- Detective Clifton R. Wooldridge's "Never-Fail" System
- PREFACE.
- TABLE OF CONTENTS.
- Preface 7-8
- Testimonials 11
- Biography of the Author 27
- Graft Nation's Worst Foe 51
- The "Never-Fail" System to Beat the Get-Rich-Quick Swindles 112
- The Best Rules for Health 116
- Matrimonial Agents Coining Cupid's Wiles 119
- The Great Mistake. Our Penal System is a Relic of Early Savagery 192
- Vagrants, Who and Why 204
- The Young Criminals and How They Are Bred in Chicago 230
- Wiles of Fortune Telling 246
- Wife or Gallows 267
- A Clever Shop Lifter (Fainting Bertha) 272
- Front 284
- The Criminal's Last Chance Gone 288
- Burglary a Science 311
- Cell Terms for "Con" Men 341
- Panel-House Thieves 348
- Gambling and Crime 358
- A Heartless Fraud 401
- The Bogus Mine 409
- A Giant Swindle 418
- Quacks 426
- Fabulous Losses in Big Turf Frauds 448
- Fake Drug Vendors 462
- Bucket-Shop 471
- On "Sure Things." How to Learn Their Real Character 482
- Huge Swindles Bared 487
- The Social Evil 500
- Suppress Manufacture and Sale of Dangerous Weapons 508
- Getting Something for Nothing 517
- Want Ad. Fakers 527
- Millionaire Banker and Broker Arrested 533
- Dora McDonald 551
- Mike McDonald 581
- PUBLISHER'S PREFACE.
- WORDS OF COMMENDATION.
- SHERLOCK HOLMES IN REAL LIFE.
- Mary White, Flossie Moore
- FOUR FAMOUS NEGRO WOMEN GRAFTERS
- CLIFTON R. WOOLDRIDGE
- AMERICA'S FOREMOST DETECTIVE.
- BORN IN KENTUCKY.
- AN UNPARALLELED RECORD.
- 200 of these were convicted and sent to the penitentiary.
- 60 wagon loads of literature seized and destroyed.
- 185 wildcat insurance companies raided and closed.
- 129 slot machines seized and broken up; valued at $10,000.
- 125 matrimonial agencies raided and broken up.
- 105 panel houses raided and closed.
- 50 home-buying swindles raided and closed; $6,000,000 lost.
- 48 palmists and fortune tellers raided and closed; $500,000 lost.
- 45 spurious employment agencies raided and closed; $200,000 lost.
- 40 bogus charity swindles raided and closed; $300,000 lost.
- 38 blind pools in grain and stock raided and closed; $500,000 lost.
- 35 bogus mail order houses raided and closed; $3,000,000 lost.
- 34 sure-thing gambling devices raided and closed; $2,500,000 lost.
- 33 fraudulent and guarantee companies raided and closed; $900,000 lost.
- 30 fraudulent book concerns raided and closed; $1,000,000 lost.
- 28 panel-house keepers were indicted and convicted.
- 15 owners of the property were indicted and convicted.
- 27 dishonest collecting agencies raided and closed; $200,000 lost.
- 25 swindling brokers raided and closed; $800,000 lost.
- 23 lotteries raided and closed; $1,700,000 lost.
- 22 promoters raided and closed; $1,000,000 lost.
- 22 salted mines and well companies raided and closed; $2,000,000 lost.
- 20 city lot swindles raided and closed; $1,000,000 lost.
- 20 spurious medicine concerns raided and closed; $300,000 lost.
- 16 fraudulent theater agencies raided and closed; $100,000 lost.
- 5 mushroom banks raided and closed; $500,000 lost.
- CANNOT BE BRIBED.
- TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF WORK DONE.
- LIFE HISTORY OF WOOLDRIDGE.
- NUMBERLESS HAIR-BREADTH ESCAPES.
- SAVES WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN FIRE.
- RIDES TO STATION ON PRISONER'S BACK.
- HANGS ON WINDOW SILL.
- A PLOT TO KILL DETECTIVE WOOLDRIDGE.
- DETECTIVE WOOLDRIDGE ROUGHLY HANDLED.
- FINE WORK IN A THIEVES' RESORT.
- MAKES HIGH DIVE.
- STORY RIVALS POE'S "BLACK CAT."
- ON DUTY IN GREAT STRIKE.
- REMARKABLE WORK AS A RAGPICKER.
- HERO OF SOME FIERCE FIGHTS.
- CROOKED GAMBLING TRUST.
- TRY TO CORRUPT SCHOOLBOYS.
- DETECTIVE WOOLDRIDGE SECURES EVIDENCE IN NOVEL WAY.
- ACTS AS VENDOR OF FIGHTING "CHICKENS."
- BRIBERY TACTICS OF NO AVAIL.
- JAMES P. WILSON.
- GRAFT NATION'S WORST FOE.
- THE REIGN OF GRAFT.
- ARE YOU A GRAFTER?
- GRAFT IS OVERLORD.
- SCORES OF PROUD NAMES SMIRCHED.
- LIFE OF NATION IMPERILED.
- A GRAFTER IN EVERY ROAD.
- NATION, STATES AND CITIES AROUSED.
- PRESIDENT LEADS FOES OF GRAFT.
- FORCES OF GRAFT HARD PRESSED.
- HIDEOUS PERIL IS REVEALED.
- IDOLS COVERED WITH SLIME.
- THE UNCONSCIOUS GRAFTER.
- WAR ON GRAFT JUST BEGINNING.
- WHOLESALE SWINDLING GRAFTERS.
- RELIGIOUS GRAFT PAYS.
- FINANCIAL YIELDS ARE LARGE.
- MYSTICISM DRAWS MANY CONVERTS.
- AMERICAN FAKER GETS THE COIN.
- FAITH IN CHARLATAN STRONG.
- PAWN TICKETS ON DIAMONDS.
- VICTIM ANXIOUS FOR INTEREST.
- NEW LAW BADLY NEEDED.
- POSTAGE STAMP GRAFTER.
- THE CLERK GRAFTER.
- PLAYS ON TARDY VICTIM.
- FALL GUY TAKES BAIT.
- SUCKER DIGS OUT COIN.
- FLEECING INVALIDS AND CRIPPLES.
- WRITE SMOOTH LETTERS.
- ESTEEMED FRIEND:
- ROB BED-RIDDEN WOMEN.
- SHARKS RUIN BUSINESS MEN.
- NEW LINE OF FINANCIAL GRAFT.
- OFFER OF CASH AROUSES INTEREST.
- GETS $800 FOR $1,000.
- BEGINS TO SHOW HIS TEETH.
- LOSES HIS 20 PER CENT.
- TRADE STATEMENTS TO CUSTOMER.
- SHREWD BEGGAR GRAFT.
- PARALYTIC A BAD ACTOR.
- EASY MONEY FROM KIND HEARTS.
- FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE HEATHEN.
- GAVE THE MONEY TO CANVAS BOSS.
- WORKED THE GAME ONCE A MONTH.
- IN NAME OF CHARITY.
- THIS ONE MADE FORTUNE.
- OFTEN WORTH THE PRICE.
- RAFFLES BANK ROBBERY.
- HOW SKIN RAFFLE IS WORKED.
- POPULAR GAME IN SALOONS.
- RAFFLE IS LOTTERY BY LAW.
- RAFFLES THAT ARE STEALS.
- GRAFT OF TRAIN BUTCHER EASY.
- WHAT WAS HIDDEN UNDER SEAT.
- HOW THREE BOOK MONTE IS PLAYED.
- SHOWS CORNER OF BILL.
- ALL SUCKERS NOT IN DAY COACHES.
- COUNTRY TOWN "SPORT" EASIEST MARK.
- WOMEN VICTIMS OF OLD COUPON SCHEME.
- THE OLD "WAREROOM" TALE.
- BOOK LOVERS EASY PREY OF FRAUDS.
- BOGUS ART WORKS FINE GRAFT.
- MISERABLE LITTLE SHORT MEASURE THIEVES.
- CRIME A FINE ART.
- CITIES BREEDING SPOTS OF CRIME.
- AMERICA'S EDUCATED CRIMINAL CLASS.
- REFINED CRIMINALS MOST DANGEROUS.
- PRISON POOR CURE FOR CRIME.
- MACONOCHIE'S EXPERIMENT.
- FACES PORTRAY CHARACTER.
- CRIMINAL HEADS NOT EXTRAORDINARY.
- DETECTIVE CLIFTON R. WOOLDRIDGE'S
- THE ONLY SURE WAY TO BEAT:
- TURF FRAUDS.
- WILD CAT INSURANCE.
- BOGUS SECURITIES, CONFIDENCE GAMES.
- CITY-LOT SWINDLES.
- HOME-BUYING SWINDLES.
- DISHONEST DEBENTURE BOND COMPANIES.
- FRAUDULENT PROMOTERS.
- BUCKET SHOPS.
- BLIND POOLS IN GRAIN AND STOCKS.
- PANEL HOUSES.
- BOGUS MAIL ORDER HOUSES.
- POKER, FARO AND OTHER GAMBLING GAMES.
- MATRIMONIAL BUREAUS.
- COUNTERFEIT UNDERWRITERS.
- FRAUDULENT BOOK CONCERNS.
- DISHONEST COLLECTION AGENCIES.
- ADULTERATED MEDICINE DEALERS.
- WIRE TAPPERS.
- FAKE BROKERS.
- BOGUS CHARITIES.
- SPURIOUS EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES.
- SWINDLE PROMOTERS.
- MUSHROOM BANKS.
- CLAIRVOYANTS.
- FORTUNE TELLERS.
- PALMISTS.
- LEAVE SPECULATION TO THOSE WHO CAN AFFORD TO LOSE.
- LARGE RISKS INCUR LARGE LOSSES.
- PROMOTERS ARE NOT IN BUSINESS TO MAKE MONEY FOR YOU, BUT "OUT OF YOU."
- DO NOT PAY OUT YOUR OWN GOOD MONEY FOR ANOTHER MAN'S BOGUS DOLLARS.
- DO NOT INVEST YOUR HARD-WON SAVINGS IN VANISHING AIR CASTLES.
- WHEN IN DOUBT DO NOTHING.
- USE CAUTION, REASON AND COMMON SENSE.
- PROSECUTION OF THE SWINDLERS WILL SURELY FOLLOW.
- THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN HONEST GAMBLER.
- GIVE IT ALL UP AND ADOPT HONEST MEANS OF PROCURING WEALTH!
- THEY ARE WORTH THE ATTENTION AND THOUGHT OF ALL READERS.
- 1. Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
- 2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
- 3. Never spend your money before you have earned it.
- 4. Never buy what you don't want because it is cheap.
- 5. Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.
- 6. We seldom repent of eating too little.
- 7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
- 9. Take things always by the smooth handle.
- 11. Watch the small things.
- 12. Laziness is a vice--fight it.
- 13. Do your honest best--it pays.
- 14. Without self-respect you cannot gain respect.
- 15. Trickery's triumph is fleeting.
- 16. Remember that opportunity waits only on worth.
- 18. It is not enough to be honest and lazy.
- PRIDE COSTS MORE THAN HUNGER, THIRST AND COLD.
- COINING CUPID'S WILES.
- HUMAN DERELICTS ARE DUPES.
- MATRIMONIAL AGENTS' METHODS.
- NO TRUST HERE.
- WORKING THE DOUBLE CROSS.
- TWO WELL-DEFINED FORMS.
- CONCRETE EXAMPLES.
- TYPE NO. 1.
- I herewith enclose $1.12 as full payment on the above offer.
- Name---- Postoffice----
- Street, or Box No---- State----
- COMMITS SUICIDE.
- SECONDARY TYPES.
- MATRIMONIAL AGENCIES' STOCK LETTERS UNDER THE GUISE OF MINISTRY.
- WANTED A RICH HUSBAND.
- Hoping to hear from you soon, I remain
- MATRIMONIAL AGENCY UNDER THE GUISE OF AN ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
- Awaiting your immediate reply, I am
- EDWARD MORRIS.
- EDWARD MORRIS.
- EDWARD MORRIS.
- MATRIMONIAL AGENCY UNDER THE GUISE OF EMPLOYMENT EXCHANGE.
- G. H. CANNON.
- A PERSISTENT OFFENDER.
- BOBS UP AGAIN.
- TURNS CLAIRVOYANT.
- AGENTS OF THE UNDERWORLD A NEST OF POLE-CATS.
- SHERIFF DUPED--ATTEMPTS ROLE OF LOTHARIO.
- BIGAMY AND THE BUREAU.
- THE CASE OF COUNT LARISCH.
- DESERTS WIFE AFTER THE FIRST DAY.
- IDENTIFIED IN CHICAGO; WEDDING STOPPED.
- BREAKING INTO THE NOBILITY.
- HOW TITLED RAKES USE THE AGENCIES.
- WOES OF COUNT LARISCH.
- LORD BERTIE CAVENDISH--CHAMPION MATRIMONIALIST.
- MARKET FOR AMERICAN HEIRESSES.
- SAME LITERATURE USED AS IN MARION GREY CASE.
- CLIENTS ALL WEALTHY; TAKE THEIR WORD FOR IT.
- WITNESSES NEED A SHEPHERD.
- NICE LETTERS LACK RICH TONE.
- SOUTHERN BEAUTY SENDS $2.
- THE HORRIBLE GUNNESS FARM.
- THE RIPENED FRUIT OF THE MATRIMONIAL AGENCY.
- A Crop on the Gunness Farm.]
- LOMBROSO DISCUSSES MONSTER.
- LIST OF THE VICTIMS.
- PARTIAL CATALOGUE OF MRS. GUNNESS' 180 VICTIMS.
- 3. Her infant child, whom she strangled to death.
- 5. Olaf Limbo, Norwegian farm hand.
- 6. Ole Budsberg, a hired man, from Iola, Wis.
- 10. A horse trader from Montana.
- 17. Crippled man from Medina, N. D.
- 28. E. J. Tiefland, retired railroad man, of Minneapolis.
- IN LIGHTER VEIN.
- COULD LIVE AND DIE ON LOVE.
- NOT A FLIRT.
- LOVELORN WAILS.
- HER IDEAL HUSBAND.
- THIS ONE IS REAL FRANK.
- ONE OF THE LUCKY ONES.
- SWIFT COURTSHIP BY EDWARDS.
- THE FESTIVE FARM HAND FRIVOLS.
- THE FAKER AND THE PRESS.
- SOME NEWSPAPERS ARE BUNCOED, WHILE OTHERS WILLINGLY ASSIST RASCALS.
- MATRIMONIAL AGENCIES' ADVERTISEMENTS FOR RICH WIVES AND HUSBANDS.
- BEFORE.
- AFTER.
- PENNSYLVANIA.
- NEBRASKA.
- OHIO.
- KENTUCKY.
- BOSTON, MASS.
- CHICAGO, ILL.
- MONROE CO., PA.
- DOVER, N. H.
- NEW YORK CITY.
- UTAH.
- SAME THING NEARER HOME.
- THE GREAT MISTAKE.
- OUR PENAL SYSTEM IS A RELIC OF EARLY SAVAGERY.
- INTELLIGENCE IN PUNISHING CRIME.
- THE "SILENT SYSTEM" IS A CRIME AGAINST CRIMINALS.
- EXTREME METHODS FAULTY.
- JAILS MAKE 50,000 CRIMINALS A YEAR.
- CRIME BASED ON SUGGESTION.
- SUGGESTS GREAT PRISON FARM.
- IMPROVING THE PUBLIC HEALTH.
- ROAD WORK FOR CONVICTS.
- SOLVES "GOOD ROADS" PROBLEM.
- EXTEND THE PAROLE SYSTEM.
- VAGRANTS; WHO AND WHY.
- WHAT WILL WE DO WITH THE VAGRANT AND TRAMP?
- TRAMP A RAILROAD PROBLEM.
- BETTER LODGINGS FOR HOMELESS MEN.
- TRAMPS LIKE JAIL.
- HOBOS CLASSIFIED BY RACES.
- NEW FOREIGNER NOT A HOBO.
- JEW RECRUIT IN TRAMPDOM.
- GET OUT AMONG THE PEOPLE.
- BARNS NOW LOCKED.
- VICTIMS OF FAKERS.
- HARDENED BY LOSSES IN "PROSPERITY" TIMES.
- HIS FEELINGS HURT.
- DRIVEN TO THE CITIES.
- THINGS ARE CHANGED NOW.
- FARMERS DOWN ON TRAMPS.
- SUSPICIOUS OF CALLER.
- HOBO LOOKS LIKE BUSINESS MAN.
- TRAMP AN ARTIST.
- COLONIES FOR TRAMPS.
- THE YOUNG CRIMINAL
- HOW HE IS BRED IN CHICAGO.
- PREVENTING CRIME BETTER THAN CURE.
- THE END OF THE GAMIN.
- CHICAGO HAS HER CHILDREN.
- GRADUATE OF THE STREETS.
- 10,000 BOYS WORSE THAN HOMELESS.
- SCHOOLS FOR PICKPOCKETS.
- MODERN BOYS ARE GAMBLERS.
- REMEDIES SUGGESTED BY SOME.
- FAILURE TO RULE CHILDREN MAKES CRIMINALS.
- RESPECT RIGHTS OF OTHERS.
- REFORMATORY AFTER FIRST CRIME.
- GUIDE CHILD OF FIFTEEN CAREFULLY.
- CHILD LIKE A PLANT.
- REAR CHILD IN LOVE.
- THE GREATEST REFORM MOVEMENT OF THE DAY IS THE CHICAGO JUVENILE COURT.
- ILLINOIS IN THE LEAD.
- WILES OF FORTUNE TELLING.
- FORTUNE TELLERS HAVE EXISTED SINCE RECORDS OF EVENTS BEGAN TO BE KEPT.
- Lower Row (left) Fake Ghost & drawings by von Marx Showing Make up]
- PANDERERS TO DEPRAVITY.
- PROGNOSTICATIONS ARE VAGUE.
- PREDICTS LIKE A SPELLBINDER.
- WARNED OF THE ENEMY.
- PREDICTIONS CHANGE LITTLE.
- MAKE ENOUGH TO RETIRE.
- ANSWERS QUESTIONS FOR A DOLLAR.
- MARRIED TWO WIVES; WHAT WILL HAPPEN?
- ROOMFUL OF PATRONS.
- GETS POINTERS FROM CUSTOMER.
- SPOOKS RAIDED.
- DETECTIVES WOOLDRIDGE AND BARRY DESCEND ON A WEST SIDE MEDIUM'S PLACE.
- PLANS ARE WELL LAID.
- CATHERINE NICHOLS, JENNIE NICHOLS]
- DETECTIVES ATTEND SERVICE.
- CALLING UP THE SPIRITS.
- SPIRITS BEGIN TO MOVE.
- KEYS UP THE SPECTATORS.
- WOOLDRIDGE TAKES A HAND.
- WOMEN REFUSE TO TALK.
- WOOLDRIDGE MAKES GHOST WALK IN POLICE COURT.
- ARREST SOUTH SIDE MEDIUMS.
- OFFICER SERVES PAPERS.
- WIFE OR GALLOWS?
- PREFERS HANGING TO LIVING WITH HIS WIFE.
- WOMAN WAS ROBBED AND MURDERED.
- DEVEL CONFESSES TO THE CRIME.
- POLICE LEARN HE IS NOT GUILTY.
- SEARCHING FOR MOTIVE OF CONFESSION.
- She called him "pig."
- A CLEVER SHOPLIFTER.
- DETECTIVE WOOLDRIDGE FINDS A FAIR CRIMINAL.
- SLEEPS ALL DAY; MAKES NIGHT HIDEOUS.
- STOLE $1,000 WORTH OF GOODS IN TWO DAYS.
- KEPT AT SOUTH BARTONVILLE WITHOUT LOCKS.
- HISTORY OF "FAINTING BERTHA."
- CRITICISES THE LINEN PURCHASED BY THE STATE.
- BERTHA SAYS GUNTHER PROMISED TO MARRY HER.
- MOST UNRULY PRISONER IN JOLIET.
- PENITENTIARY GLAD TO BE RID OF HER.
- PALE BLUE COLOR SCHEME OF BERTHA'S WARD.
- DELIGHTED AT CHANCE OF GOING TO TOWN.
- TOOK PIE AND CANDY BACK "HOME."
- DETENTION RECORD OF "FAINTING BERTHA."
- FRONT.
- STANLEY FIELD'S BUGGY.
- FAKE PRIDE LEADS TO CRIME.
- LAST CHANCE GONE.
- IDENTIFICATION BUREAU AIDED BY NATURE.
- The Bertillon System of Identification by Measurement.]
- PERFECTED IN LONDON.
- INSTRUCTIONS FOR TAKING FINGER PRINTS.
- SCOTLAND YARD METHOD.
- MOST POSITIVE IDENTIFICATION.
- APPLIED TO IMMIGRANTS.
- KEEP BAD MEN OUT OF SERVICE.
- SECURE PRINTS OF ALL CRIMINALS.
- FINGER PRINT SYSTEM FURNISHES COMPLETE IDENTIFICATION.
- BROKEN GLASS PROVES GUILT.
- IMPORTANT IN WILL CONTESTS.
- HOW TO DETECT A FORGER.
- USED IN ANCIENT TIMES.
- SAFEGUARD ON SEALS OF LETTERS AND MONEY PACKAGES.
- IDENTIFYING STRANGERS.
- SIGNING BONDS AND STOCKS.
- OBJECTS TO HAVING FINGER IMPRESSIONS RECORDED.
- MURDER REVEALED BY FINGER PRINTS.
- SENT TO GALLOWS BY BLOODY THUMB PRINT.
- GOVERNMENT TO KEEP WATCH ON CRIMINALS.
- BURGLARY A SCIENCE.
- ELECTRICITY NOW A FACTOR.
- OLD-TIME STRONG BOX.
- JIMMY IS NECESSARY.
- SCIENTIFIC BURGLARY.
- INVENT NEW DEVICES.
- MELTS HARDEST STEEL.
- TESTS WITH ELECTRICITY.
- SOME CONCRETE EXAMPLES.
- BURGLARS USE ACETYLENE FLAME TO OPEN SAFE DOOR.
- THE BANK SNEAK.
- CIRCUS DAY BRINGS A HARVEST.
- BLINDING VICTIM WITH MOLASSES.
- RARELY USE PISTOLS.
- THE LORD BOND ROBBERY.
- JUSTICE--"I CAN'T SEE IT."]
- ONE MAN'S BOLD OPERATIONS.
- HIRE A BAND TO HELP THEM.
- IMPORTANCE OF BEING ON GUARD.
- LOOKED LIKE COLEMAN'S WORK.
- DIAMONDS BURIED IN JAR.
- JOE KILLORAN'S SMOOTH WORK.
- THE HOTEL SNEAK.
- THE USE OF FALSE KEYS.
- CAPTURED BURGLARY IMPLEMENTS AT CENTRAL POLICE STATION]
- CELL TERMS FOR "CON" MEN.
- FOUR ARE SENTENCED FOR LONG "GRAFT" RECORDS.
- TRIUMPH FOR WOOLDRIDGE.
- PANEL HOUSE THIEVES.
- MUST HAVE PRETTY WOMAN.
- MALE ACCOMPLICES GET BUSY.
- THE PHOTOGRAPHIC CATCH.
- SCARE MONEY OUT OF VICTIM.
- BLACKMAIL THE WIFE AS WELL.
- STOREKEEPER SCAMPS.
- HOW FAKE "JOURNALISTS" WORK.
- FEW "BEATS" AMONG REPORTERS.
- THE NEW YORK WAY.
- GAMBLING AND CRIME.
- BEST CURE FOR GAMBLING: TEACH PUPILS IN SCHOOL LAWS OF CHANCE.
- WHY GAMBLING MAKES MEN COMMIT CRIMES.
- NO BASIS FOR LIVELIHOOD.
- TEMPTATION TO EMBEZZLE.
- HOW COMMERCE CONDONES CRIME.
- WHEREIN SPECULATION DIFFERS.
- WHEN IT WILL CEASE.
- GAMBLING DON'T PAY.
- HOW TO END RACE-TRACK GAMBLING.
- LEARN EARLY NOT TO GAMBLE; TEACH PUPILS LAW OF CHANCE.
- PUBLIC LAX; GAMBLERS ACTIVE.
- ARE WE FOLLOWING ROME TO THE PIT?
- FATE'S CARDS ALWAYS STACKED.
- CHILDREN THROW AWAY MONEY.
- CONFEDERATES USED.
- CHEATING DEVICE IN A SLOT MACHINE.
- HOLD OUTS.
- MARKED CARDS.
- CARDS MARKED WITH FINGER NAILS.
- THE DOUBLE DISCARD.
- CHECK SIGNS.
- USES TO WHICH A PACK OF CARDS MAY BE PUT.
- THE BILL HAND.
- TOOTHPICK OR CIGAR SIGNS.
- GAMBLING DEVICE SWINDLE IN ARMY AND NAVY.
- TRY TO CORRUPT SCHOOL BOYS.
- FORTS INFECTED BY EVIL.
- MANY VICTIMS SUICIDES.
- KING DEATH.
- BODIES THROWN IN OCEAN.
- BANISH THE DEAD BROKE.
- BONAPARTES BIG STOCKHOLDERS.
- PRINCE OWNS NO STOCK.
- RECEIVES ENORMOUS INCOME.
- GAMBLING KINGS GO BROKE; OFTEN DIE IN THE POORHOUSE.
- MUST HAVE FORTUNE TO INVEST.
- STORY OF ONE GAMBLER KING.
- DICE, FARO AND ROULETTE.
- MORE NERVE TO WIN THAN LOSE.
- IT'S UP TO YOU, YOUNG MAN.
- A HEARTLESS FRAUD.
- SWINDLER JUMPS BAIL.
- THE BOGUS MINE.
- PROMOTER'S WORD VALUELESS.
- INVESTIGATION NECESSARY.
- KEEP LISTS OF SUCKERS.
- PECKSNIFFIAN TEARS DELUDE.
- DIFFICULT TO CONVICT.
- POWER OF UNCLE SAM.
- WOOLDRIDGE FINDS SMOOTH SCHEME.
- FIRST PRINCIPLES IN MINING PURCHASES.
- A GIANT SWINDLE.
- BANKS IN CHICAGO, NEW YORK AND LONDON BADLY FLEECED.
- CHICAGO CONCERNS ARE VICTIMS.
- LOSES ALL OF SAVINGS.
- ONE CAPITALIZED AT $1,000,000.
- SHERIFF IN CHARGE OF AFFAIRS.
- LIST OF BOGUS FIRMS.
- OPENED MANY BANK ACCOUNTS.
- OFFER BOND IN A SETTLEMENT.
- FIVE MEN ARE ARRESTED BY DETECTIVES WOOLDRIDGE AND BARRY.
- C. F. McGuire, 40 years old, arrested at the Great Northern Hotel.
- TOOL TELLS TRUTH--USHER OF CHURCH IN CRIME CLOUD.
- CUNNINGHAM TELLS THE STORY.
- BANK ACCOUNT OVERDRAWN.
- OFFER OF BRIBE ALLEGED.
- QUACKS.
- RASCALS WHO PREY UPON THE IGNORANT.
- PHYSIC TO THE DOGS.
- UNNECESSARY OPERATIONS.
- SLEEK AND UNCTUOUS CHURCH MEMBER.
- THE "OPTICIAN" FAKE.
- CONSUMPTION CURES.
- HUMAN GHOULS.
- THE MORPHINE CURE.
- ENCOURAGING THE MORPHINE HABIT.
- THE CANCER CURE.
- PATIENTS FROM EVERYWHERE.
- THE RUPTURE CURE.
- FEMALE DISEASES.
- THE ELECTRIC BELT FRAUD.
- THE VARICOCELE CURE.
- THE "NERVOUS DEBILITY SPECIALIST."
- A MONUMENTAL SWINDLE.
- BLACKMAIL AN ADJUNCT.
- SWINDLER A "DOPE" FIEND.
- CONSULT DR. R----
- ALL DISEASES AND WEAKNESSES PECULIAR TO MEN.
- CONSULT DR. R----
- JUST PLAIN FRAUD.
- FABULOUS LOSSES IN BIG TURF FRAUDS.
- E. J. Arnold & Co. $ 4,000,000
- John J. Ryan & Co., St. Louis, Mo. 1,500,000
- Brolaski & Co., Chicago 200,000
- Benedict & Co., Chicago 200,000
- The Mid-Continent Investment Company, Chicago 150,000
- The Mason-Teller Company, Chicago 50,000
- The Money-Maker, C. A. Pollock, manager, Chicago 15,000
- Investors' Profit-Sharing and Protective Association, Chicago 12,000
- J. J. Shea & Company, Chicago 10,000
- Standard Investment Bureau, Chicago and San Francisco 25,000
- The Security Savings Society, W. R. Bennett, Chicago 1,500,000
- D. W. Moodey & Co., Chicago 50,000
- Co-Operative Trust Co., L. M. Morrison, Chicago 150,000
- Edward L. Farley & Co., Chicago 75,000
- Inter-Ocean Commission Co., J. T. Mitchell, Chicago 75,000
- Hugo Morris & Co., Chicago 50,000
- Al Fetzer & Co., Co-Operative Turf Pools, Hammond, Ind. 500,000
- Co-Operative Investment Association, L. H. Myers, New York 150,000
- American Stock Co., W. M. Nichols, New York 100,000
- Mutual Security Co., C. Dudrey, New York 100,000
- Henshall, Bronner & Co., New York 75,000
- W. W. O'Hara & Co., Cincinnati 50,000
- Crawford & Co., New York 35,000
- Paul Pry's Investments 70,000
- The Belt Company, N. S. Goodsill, Hammond, Ind. 150,000
- Drake, Allison & Co., Hammond, Ind. 175,000
- New York Co-Operative Company, New York 20,000
- W. J. Keating Company, New York 20,000
- The Fidelity Trust, Wm. J. Young, San Francisco 25,000
- C. E. Cooper & Co., Cincinnati 15,000
- C. E. Cooper & Co., Covington, Ky. 10,000
- GIGANTIC TURF SWINDLE.
- GET-RICH-QUICK SCHEMES.
- HERE ARE PLAUSIBLE ARGUMENTS.
- NO ACCOUNT RECEIVED OF LESS THAN $50.
- THE POLICE, AROUSED BY TURF SWINDLERS, RAID AND CLOSE UP THEIR PLACES.
- D. W. Moody, 182 and 184 Dearborn street.
- FAKE TURFMEN INDICTED.
- M. J. Beck, "Benedict & Co.," 225 Dearborn street.
- PREY ON CHICAGO TEACHERS.
- HOW ARNOLD INSPIRED CONFIDENCE.
- DIRECTORS.
- TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
- FAKE DRUG VENDORS.
- A MOST DANGEROUS FORM OF RASCALITY.
- WHAT THE TEST SHOWED.
- DANGER TO THE PATIENT.
- BUCKET-SHOP.
- WHAT IS A BUCKET SHOP.
- READY TO MAKE ALL DEALS.
- NAME COINED IN LONDON.
- GAME NEATLY FIXED.
- HOW THE SUCKERS ARE SKINNED.
- OTHER "FAKES" "BOOST" THE GAME.
- BIG DIVIDEND PROMISES FALSE.
- And the Chicago man's letter, in substance, reads: "No!"
- ON LEVEL WITH LOTTERY AND FARO BANK.
- OPEN GAMBLING UNDER BAN.
- OPEN DOOR TO RUIN.
- ON "SURE THINGS."
- HOW TO LEARN THEIR REAL CHARACTER.
- ALL "BRITE & FAIR."
- DODGE UNCLE SAM AND CONSPIRACY LAWS.
- WILDCATS GIVE GOOD REFERENCE.
- HUGE SWINDLES BARED.
- DID HEAVY BUSINESS.
- SCHEME OF THE COMPANY.
- THE GUARANTEE CO. METHODS.
- GOOD ADVICE ON "GUARANTEE."
- DO BOOMING BUSINESS.
- THE SOCIAL EVIL.
- AMERICA FOLLOWS OLD LINES.
- ONLY BURNED ORPHAN ASYLUM.
- GIVE ALL HONEST CHANCE.
- AVERAGE EVIL LIFE VERY SHORT.
- ARGUMENT AGAINST SEGREGATION.
- EVIL NOT NECESSARY.
- NOBLER WOMANHOOD THE GOAL.
- QUEERS THE TOWN.
- GETTING SOMETHING FOR NOTHING.
- HOW THE WORTHLESS CERTIFICATE WORKS.
- How the Rhodus Boys Worked the Old "Come-On."
- TRYING THEIR HAND AT LIFE INSURANCE.
- ASSURANCE GIVEN INVESTORS.
- PURCHASES "GUARANTEED."
- WANT AD. FAKERS.
- HOME WORK SCHEME CATCHES MANY.
- MONEY CHARGED FOR FAKE "OUTFITS."
- A SMOOTH SCHEME.
- FINANCIAL "JOURNAL" FRAUDS.
- MILLIONAIRE BANKER AND BROKER ARRESTED.
- LIST OF BRANCH OFFICES.
- EXCLUSIVE OFFICES FOR LADY SPECULATORS.
- SULLIVAN'S
- George T. Sullivan."
- ON THE "OIL EXCHANGE."
- REASONS WHICH CAUSED INVESTIGATION, RAID AND ARREST.
- WOOLDRIDGE'S RAID.
- OFFICES FILLED WITH PATRONS.
- NAMES OF PRISONERS ARRESTED.
- CROWD GATHERS.
- PATRONS TOLD THEY WOULD NOT LOSE IF ADVICE WAS FOLLOWED.
- SULLIVAN HAS RECORD.
- MILLION-DOLLAR GAMBLER'S WIFE ARRESTED FOR MURDER.
- NO WITNESSES OF KILLING.
- WOMAN CUT BY BROKEN GLASS.
- MYSTERY TOO MUCH FOR CORONER.
- FRIENDS GET BUSY QUICKLY.
- GUERIN'S LIFE STORY.
- DORA MCDONALD DIVORCED WIFE OF "SAM" BARCLAY.
- BEAUTY OF WEST SIDE.
- BOY OF 14 ENTERS.
- STOLE HIM AS A BOY, SLEW HIM AS A MAN, SAYS ARCHIE GUERIN.
- MIKE MCDONALD DELUDED BY WIFE.
- PROVIDES FOR THE DEFENSE.
- DRAMATIC MEETING OF MCDONALD AND FIRST WIFE.
- TRIAL BEGINS.
- NAMES OF THE JURY.
- PACKED COURTROOM.
- DRAMATIC SCENE IN COURTROOM.
- BLOOM GONE FROM CHEEK.
- NO MADNESS IN HER EYES.
- TRACES OF SIREN LEFT.
- A "SAPPHO" AND "SALOME."
- TRAGEDY OF A SOUL IN POEMS OF PASSION BY DORA MCDONALD.
- WRITTEN AS TRAGEDY APPROACHED.
- POEM WRITTEN ON DATE OF THE GUERIN TRAGEDY.
- PEARLS BEFORE SWINE.
- ANOTHER POEM OF PASSION.
- NEVER AGAIN.
- I gave you sweetest love, etc.
- SOUGHT VINDICATION TO SPARE HER AGED MOTHER.
- STRONG DEFENSE BY LEWIS.
- STRIKES HARD AT ARCHIE GUERIN.
- O'DONNELL MOVES TO TEARS.
- QUOTES THE GOSPEL.
- ACQUITTAL CREATES THRILLING SCENES.
- SUSPENSE FRIGHTFUL.
- MCDONALD JURORS TELL OF THE VERDICT.
- WOMAN SERENE AS VERDICT IS READ.
- FROM THE PAINTING BY BURNE-JONES]
- BEGINS LIFE AS "CANDY BUTCHER."
- PATRIOTIC FOR A PRICE.
- SOLVED GAMBLING PROBLEM.
- ONCE RULED ALL CHICAGO.
- NEAR TO PENITENTIARY.
- CASE FINALLY "FIXED."
- RISES IN HIS PROFESSION.
- THRONE IN "THE STORE."
- THE BIG COURTHOUSE "JOB."
- DOMESTIC LIFE ROUGH.
- SAM BARCLAY TELLS "HOW MIKE MCDONALD'S COIN WON DORA AWAY."
- OPENS SALOON IN CHICAGO.
- LIKELY LAD OF 200 POUNDS.
- NOTHING LIKE REAL LOVE.
- DAY OF HARRISON FUNERAL.
- DEEP GAME WELL PLAYED.
- WIFE GETS DIVORCE.
- SECOND WEDDING IN MILWAUKEE.
- INDUCES HUSBAND TO DISINHERIT SON.
- THE STING AND CURSE OF ILL-GOTTEN MONEY.
- WIFE NO. 1, WIDOW; NO. 2, REPUDIATED.
- MARY NOONAN NOW CLAIMS INNOCENCE AND FIGHTS TO PROVE DIVORCE ILLEGAL.
- FIRST WIFE DENIES CHARGES.
- REPUDIATION OF SECOND WIFE.
- CHURCH NOT INTERESTED IN WILL.
- MRS. MARY MCDONALD CHANGED.
- TELLS HER STORY AT LAST.
- SAYS CHARGES WERE INVENTED.
- NO CHAPEL IN HOUSE.
- LEAVES HUSBAND; GOES TO SISTER.
- PAWNS HER DIAMONDS.
- DRIVEN TO HIDE IDENTITY.
- OPPOSED BY DOCUMENTS.
- JOINT LETTERS IN EVIDENCE.
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- Transcriber's Notes
- Page 136: Changed "Los Angelese" to "Los Angeles."