Оглавление
Clifton R. Wooldridge. Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World
Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World
Table of Contents
PREFACE
PUBLISHER'S PREFACE
WORDS OF COMMENDATION
SHERLOCK HOLMES IN REAL LIFE
CLIFTON R. WOOLDRIDGE. AMERICA'S FOREMOST DETECTIVE
Born in Kentucky
AN UNPARALLELED RECORD
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
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
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
Rob Bed-Ridden Women
"Operators" Cringing Cowards
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
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 "Never-Fail" System
The Best Rules for Health, Happiness and Success
PRIDE COSTS MORE THAN HUNGER, THIRST AND COLD
COINING CUPID'S WILES
How Matrimonial Agencies Prey on the Public—Their Degeneration Into the Worst Forms of Crime
Human Derelicts Are Dupes
Matrimonial Agents' Methods
No Trust Here
Working the Double Cross
Two Well-Defined Forms
CONCRETE EXAMPLES
Type No. 1
Commits Suicide
Secondary Types
Matrimonial Agencies' Stock Letters Under the Guise of Ministry
Wanted a Rich Husband
Matrimonial Agency Under the Guise of an Attorney-at-Law
Matrimonial Agency Under the Guise of Employment Exchange
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
Where the Professional Bigamists Find Wives
The Case of Count Larisch
Witzhoff's Confession—Bought Fifteen Wives From One Agent—Takes $4,000 From His First Wife
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
Government Officials Roused to Many Frauds by the Matrimonial Agencies and Bureaux Throughout the Country, "Agencies" to Put Under Ban the Swindling Operations. Mrs. Jennie Scott, Arrested by Postal Inspectors, Tells Secrets of Her Matrimonial Agency
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
Lombroso Discusses Monster
List of the Victims
Partial Catalogue of Mrs. Gunness' 180 Victims
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
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
Talks of the Tramp—Why Dilapidated Gentleman Does Not Give Up Wandering and Settle Down—Likes the Care-Free Life—Mingles Among the People and Gets to Know Them Well—Changes in Community
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
Teaching Vagrants a Trade
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
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
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
"Spook" Wooldridge Demonstrates
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
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
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
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
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
"Bogus Detective" Game
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
An Average of 200 Suicides a Year at Monte Carlo—Many Bodies Are Secretly Thrown Into Sea by Authorities of This, the World's Greatest Gambling House
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
"Holy Moses" Rises?
"Holy Moses" Falls
First Principles in Mining Purchases
A GIANT SWINDLE
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
Tool Tells Truth—Usher of Church in Crime Cloud
Cunningham Tells the Story
Bank Account Overdrawn
Offer of Bribe Alleged
Check "Kiters" Heavily Fined—George F. Johnston and C. F. McGuire Assessed $2,000 Each
QUACKS
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
Just Plain Fraud
FABULOUS LOSSES IN BIG TURF FRAUDS
"INVESTMENT" COMPANIES OF LAST FEW YEARS NETTED $10,162,000
Gigantic Turf Swindle
Get-Rich-Quick Schemes
Here Are Plausible Arguments
The Police, Aroused by Turf Swindlers, Raid and Close Up Their Places
FAKE TURFMEN INDICTED
Prey on Chicago Teachers
How Arnold Inspired Confidence
FAKE DRUG VENDORS
A MOST DANGEROUS FORM OF RASCALITY
WHAT THE TEST SHOWED
DANGER TO THE PATIENT
HASTENED McKINLEY'S DEATH
LETTER FROM EDWARD A. KUEHMSTED, THE PRINCIPAL DEALER IN SPURIOUS DRUGS; IT IS SELF-EXPLANATORY
THE STATE LAWS COVERING THE FRAUDULENT ADULTERATION OF DRUGS AND MEDICINES FOR THE PURPOSE OF SALE, READS AS FOLLOWS
BUCKET-SHOP
"Speculation" an Unmeaning Term
"Board of Trade" Falsely Blamed
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
"Outsider" Has No Chance
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
$300,000,000 Capital
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
SUPPRESS MANUFACTURE AND SALE OF DANGEROUS WEAPONS—THEY ARE A CONSTANT MENACE TO LIFE AND GOOD ORDER
MADE SOLELY FOR UNLAWFUL USE—ENGENDER CRIME, INCREASE ACCIDENTS AND MAKE SUICIDE EASY—CARRYING CONCEALED WEAPONS A VICIOUS AND INEXCUSABLE HABIT
QUEERS THE TOWN
GETTING SOMETHING FOR NOTHING
HOW THE WORTHLESS CERTIFICATE WORKS
Trying Their Hand at Life Insurance
Assurance Given Investors
Purchases "Guaranteed."
WANT AD. FAKERS
THE PETTY DOLLAR SWINDLERS PUT OUT OF BUSINESS IN CHICAGO BY DETECTIVE CLIFTON R. WOOLDRIDGE
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
On the "Oil Exchange."
Reasons Which Caused Investigation, Raid and Arrest
Wooldridge's Raid
Offices Filled with Patrons
Names of Prisoners Arrested
Crowd Gathers
"Red Letter" Well Known. Patrons Told They Would Not Lose If Advice Was Followed
Sullivan Has Record
DORA McDONALD
MILLION-DOLLAR GAMBLER'S WIFE ARRESTED FOR MURDER
Important Dates in Mrs. McDonald's Life Tragedy
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
"Kill Me If You Will," She Says in a Verse
Pearls Before Swine
Another Poem of Passion
Never Again
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
The Vampire
MIKE McDONALD
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
Burial of "Mike" McDonald Serves to Open New Chapter in His Troubles—Old Scandals Denied. 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
