PREFACE.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
PUBLISHER'S PREFACE.
WORDS OF COMMENDATION.
CLIFTON R. WOOLDRIDGE AMERICA'S FOREMOST DETECTIVE.
GRAFT NATION'S WORST FOE. THE REIGN OF GRAFT.
DETECTIVE CLIFTON R. WOOLDRIDGE'S "Never-Fail" System
The Best Rules for Health, Happiness and Success.
COINING CUPID'S WILES. How Matrimonial Agencies Prey on the
THE GREAT MISTAKE. OUR PENAL SYSTEM IS A RELIC OF EARLY SAVAGERY.
VAGRANTS; WHO AND WHY. WHAT WILL WE DO WITH THE VAGRANT AND TRAMP? (various tramps)
THE YOUNG CRIMINAL HOW HE IS BRED IN CHICAGO.
WILES OF FORTUNE TELLING. FORTUNE TELLERS HAVE EXISTED SINCE RECORDS OF EVENTS BEGAN TO BE KEPT.
WIFE OR GALLOWS? PREFERS HANGING TO LIVING WITH HIS WIFE.
A CLEVER SHOPLIFTER. DETECTIVE WOOLDRIDGE FINDS A FAIR CRIMINAL.
FRONT.
LAST CHANCE GONE. IDENTIFICATION BUREAU AIDED BY NATURE.
BURGLARY A SCIENCE.
CELL TERMS FOR "CON" MEN. FOUR ARE SENTENCED FOR LONG "GRAFT" RECORDS.
PANEL HOUSE THIEVES.
GAMBLING AND CRIME. BEST CURE FOR GAMBLING: TEACH PUPILS IN SCHOOL LAWS OF CHANCE.
A HEARTLESS FRAUD.
THE BOGUS MINE.
A GIANT SWINDLE.
QUACKS.
FABULOUS LOSSES IN BIG TURF FRAUDS. "INVESTMENT" COMPANIES OF LAST FEW YEARS NETTED USD10,162,000.
FAKE DRUG VENDORS. A MOST DANGEROUS FORM OF RASCALITY.
BUCKET-SHOP.
ON "SURE THINGS." HOW TO LEARN THEIR REAL CHARACTER.
HUGE SWINDLES BARED.
THE SOCIAL EVIL.
SUPPRESS MANUFACTURE AND SALE OF DANGEROUS WEAPONS THEY ARE A
GETTING SOMETHING FOR NOTHING. HOW THE WORTHLESS CERTIFICATE WORKS.
WANT AD. FAKERS. THE PETTY DOLLAR SWINDLERS PUT OUT OF BUSINESS
MILLIONAIRE BANKER AND BROKER ARRESTED.
DORA McDONALD. MILLION-DOLLAR GAMBLER'S WIFE ARRESTED FOR MURDER.
MIKE McDONALD.
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
