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قراءة كتاب Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World
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Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World
Twenty Years a Detective
in the Wickedest City in the World.
Twenty Years a Detective
IN THE WICKEDEST CITY IN THE WORLD.
20,000 ARRESTS MADE
12,900 CONVICTIONS ON STATE AND CITY LAWS
200 PENITENTIARY CONVICTIONS
The Devil and the Grafter
AND
HOW THEY WORK TOGETHER TO DECEIVE,
SWINDLE AND DESTROY MANKIND
AN ARMY OF 600,000 CRIMINALS AT WAR WITH
SOCIETY AND RELIGION
By CLIFTON R. WOOLDRIDGE
The World-Famous Criminologist and Detective
"The Incorruptible Sherlock Holmes of America"
After twenty years of heroic warfare and scores of hair-breadth
escapes, in his unceasing battle with the devil and the grafter,
Mr. Wooldridge tells in a graphic manner how Wildcat Insurance,
Fake Mines and Oil Wells, Turf Swindlers, Home Buying Swindlers,
Fake Bond and Investment Companies, Bucket Shops, Blind
Pools in Grain and Stocks, Pool Rooms and Hand Books, Fake
Mail Order Houses, ordinary Gambling Houses, Panel Houses,
Matrimonial Bureaus, Fake Underwriting, Fake Banks, Collecting
Agencies, Fake Medicine Companies, Clairvoyants, Fortune Tellers,
Palmists and other criminals of all classes operate, and how their
organizations have been broken up and destroyed by hundreds.
THE WORK ALSO CONTAINS
Detective Clifton R. Wooldridge's "Never-Fail" System
For Detecting and Outwitting All Classes of
Grafters and Swindlers
Copyright, 1908,
BY
CLIFTON R. WOOLDRIDGE.
Chicago Publishing Co.,
83-91 Plymouth Place,
Chicago.
PREFACE.
In presenting this work to the public the author has no apologies to make nor favors to ask. It is a simple history of his connection with the Police Department of Chicago, compiled from his own memoranda, the newspapers, and the official records. The matter herein contained differs from those records only in details, as many facts are given in the book which have never been made public. The author has no disposition to malign any one, and names are used only in cases in which the facts are supported by the archives of the Police Department and of the criminal court. In the conscientious discharge of his duties as an officer of the law, the author has in all cases studied the mode of legal procedure. His aim has been solely to protect society and the taxpayer, and to punish the guilty. The evidences of his sincerity accompany the book in the form of letters from the highest officers in the city government, from the mayor down to the precinct captain, and furnish overwhelming testimony as to his endeavors to serve the public faithfully and honestly. No effort has been made to bestow self-praise, and where this occurs, it is only a reproduction, perhaps in different language, of the comments indulged in by the newspapers of Chicago and other cities, whose reporters are among the brightest and most talented young men in all the walks and professions of life. To them the officer acknowledges his obligations in many instances. Often he has worked hand-in-hand with them. They have traveled with him in the dead hours of the night, in his efforts to suppress crime or track a criminal, and have often given him assistance in the way of suggestions.
He now submits his work and his record to the public, hoping it will give him a kindly reception.
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 |