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
The "Doctor" writes back and says that he must pay for it. It will
require three months to effect a cure, and the whole treatment has
been prepared. If he does not take it the office will be subject to a
loss of many hundreds of dollars. They also threaten him with a suit
for the recovery of the amount.
BLACKMAIL AN ADJUNCT.
The poor victim, almost frightened to death at the prospect of
exposure, usually compromises and pays all the money he can raise,
taking the three months' "treatment" which he is assured has been
specially prepared for his case.
It is not an uncommon thing for Dr. S. to get several thousand dollars
out of one patient. Men have been known to mortgage their farms to
get out of the clutches of these cormorants. They never let go until
the last dollar has been extracted from the poor patient. After his
experience with Dr. S. he wants no more. He thinks that they are all
alike and carefully avoids them in the future.
Dr. S. himself is not in Chicago. He is said to live in Philadelphia.
He operates offices in this city and several other places. Three men
comprise the office staff--one man who "takes" the case, another a
physician, usually a dummy engaged at a salary of fifteen to twenty
dollars a week, and a druggist.
The main guy of every medical quack office is the "case taker." He is
always a "confidence man" skilled in the business. He plays upon the
fears and credulity of his victims. He pictures the most dreadful
fate awaiting the unfortunate patient. If a case of private disease,
he knows that the patient will rot on his feet and become a charnel
house of infection.
If a "Lost Manhood" case, he pictures the horrors of impotency, a
trusting girl deceived, a divorce, together with the scandals that
precede and follow.
The old Reliable B---- Doctors Cure Men--Men only.
NO PAY UNTIL CURED. $5 FEE FOR CURE, $5. NEWLY CONTRACTED
SPECIAL DISEASES.
Consultation and Examination Free Whether You Take
Treatment or not. Come to Expert Specialists.
We cure Varicocele, Nervous Debility, Urethral Troubles,
Blood Poison, Private Diseases, Phimosis, Piles, Skin
Diseases, Rupture and other Wasting Diseases of Men.
Call or send for free question list. Hours--Daily. 9 to 8;
Sundays, 10 to 2. J. B. McG----, M. D., Medical Director.
B---- MEDICAL INSTITUTE.
Chicago, Ill.
The above advertisement appears right along in the Chicago dailies. If
Dr. S---- is the "Prince of swindlers" the B---- Medical Institute is
a good second.
It is owned and run by a Bohemian, who changed his name from an
almost unpronounceable one to that of Hansen. He employs cheap
doctors--mostly dope fiends--men who could not get employment
elsewhere. His pay is about fifteen dollars per week. This man also
runs a "dental" Institute where equally cheap dentists are employed.
Both institutes rob the unsuspecting.
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