Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World — John Shaqi
Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the WorldWooldridge, Clifton R. (Clifton Rodman)
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Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World
Wooldridge, Clifton R. (Clifton Rodman)
Crime -- Illinois -- Chicago; Police -- Illinois -- Chicago
$3,000 bribe was offered by the same woman for the address of Sadie
Jorden, who was an eye witness of the robbery of E. S. Johnson, a
retired merchant, aged 74 years.
28 wire tappers were raided and closed. These men secured the
quotations from the Board of Trade and pool rooms, and hundreds of
thousands of dollars were secured from the speculators who were
victimized; $200,000 lost.
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.
$100 per month bribe to run his lottery was offered Detective
Wooldridge, April 21, 1900, by J. J. Jacobs, 217 Dearborn street, who
conducted the Montana Loan & Investment Co. He was arrested and fined
$1,500 by Judge Chetlain, June 21, 1903.
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.
* * * * *
$30,000 worth of poison and bogus medicines seized October 29, 1904,
as follows:
$12,000 worth of spurious medicines seized by Detective
Wooldridge from Edward Kuehmsted, 6323 Ingleside avenue.
$5,000 worth of spurious drugs seized from J. S. Dean, 6121
Ellis avenue.
$2,500 worth of spurious drugs seized from Burtis B.
McCann, 6113 Madison avenue.
$500 worth of spurious drugs seized from J. N. Levy, 356
Dearborn street.
$2,000 worth of spurious medicines seized from W. G. Nay,
1452 Fulton street.
* * * * *
17 women arrested for having young girls under age in a house of
prostitution.
16 fraudulent theater agencies raided and closed; $100,000 lost.
15 procurists of young girls for houses of ill fame and
prostitution arrested and fined.
$8,000 bribe offered Detective Wooldridge, September 27,
1895, by Mary Hastings, who kept a house of prostitution
at 128 Custom House place. She went to Toledo, O., and
secured six girls under age and brought them in the house
of prostitution.
One of the girls escaped in her night clothes by tying a
sheet to the window. There were six in number, as follows:
Lizzie Lehrman, May Casey, Ida Martin, Gertie Harris,
Kittie McCarty and Lizzie Winzel.
After Mary Hastings was arrested and she found out that she
could not bribe Wooldridge she gave bonds and fled. Some
months later she was again arrested, and the case dragged
along for two years.
The witnesses were bought up and shipped out of the state.
The case was stricken off, with leave to reinstate. It is
said it cost her $20,000.
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