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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?

FLEECING INVALIDS AND CRIPPLES.

SHARKS RUIN BUSINESS MEN.

SHREWD BEGGAR GRAFT.

BOOK LOVERS EASY PREY OF FRAUDS.

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.

CONCRETE EXAMPLES.

BIGAMY AND THE BUREAU.

BREAKING INTO THE NOBILITY.

THE HORRIBLE GUNNESS FARM.

IN LIGHTER VEIN.

ONE OF THE LUCKY ONES.

THE FAKER AND THE PRESS.

MATRIMONIAL AGENCIES' ADVERTISEMENTS FOR RICH WIVES AND HUSBANDS.

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?

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.

SPOOKS RAIDED. DETECTIVES WOOLDRIDGE AND BARRY DESCEND ON A WEST SIDE MEDIUM'S PLACE.

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.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR TAKING FINGER PRINTS.

BURGLARY A SCIENCE.

ELECTRICITY NOW A FACTOR.

CELL TERMS FOR "CON" MEN.

FOUR ARE SENTENCED FOR LONG "GRAFT" RECORDS.

PANEL HOUSE THIEVES.

Must Have Pretty Woman.

GAMBLING AND CRIME.

BEST CURE FOR GAMBLING: TEACH PUPILS IN SCHOOL LAWS OF CHANCE.

HOLD OUTS.

GAMBLING DEVICE SWINDLE IN ARMY AND NAVY.

KING DEATH.

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.

FAKE TURFMEN INDICTED.

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.

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."

"Kill Me If You Will," She Says in a Verse.

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.