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
Among other advertisers are Dr. L. R. W----, Dr. H. J. T---- and Dr.
D----. The last named was recently arrested and held to the grand jury
on the charge of defrauding a patient. It might be asked in the light
of the above exposés of so-called specialists, are there no honest
ones? Detective Wooldridge says yes, there are several in Chicago who
deliver the goods. To any earnest seekers after the truth he will be
glad to give the names of several men of whom he can say, "They do not
misrepresent."
FABULOUS LOSSES IN BIG TURF FRAUDS.
"INVESTMENT" COMPANIES OF LAST FEW YEARS NETTED $10,162,000.
This is a sad, sad story, because it is an obituary, the death notice
of one of the meanest and most abominable frauds that has ever taken
the hoarded pennies of children and working girls, the "late lamented"
"turf syndicate."
Several years ago the turf syndicate was in its glory. A poor girl,
fresh from the old country, would scrub floors for a week or take in
washing for a month in order to pour money into the pockets of these
swindlers. Thanks to the efforts of Detective Clifton E. Wooldridge,
of Chicago, and others, this particular fraud is now a thing of the
past.
[Illustration: (Horses racing)]
But the enormity of this tremendous crime against the poor may be
appreciated from a study of the following figures.
Turf "investment" companies that have failed, absconded or have been
driven to the wall by prosecutions during the last few years and the
amount of money estimated to have been lost in the swindles give the
following astonishing record:
E. J. Arnold & Co. $ 4,000,000
John J. Ryan & Co., St. Louis, Mo. 1,500,000
Brolaski & Co., Chicago 200,000
Benedict & Co., Chicago 200,000
The Mid-Continent Investment Company, Chicago 150,000
The Mason-Teller Company, Chicago 50,000
The Douglas-Daly Company, R. S. Daly and N. C. Clark,
Chicago 125,000
The Armstrong-Baldwin Turf Commission, J. P. McCann
and O. L. Wells, Chicago 100,000
The Money-Maker, C. A. Pollock, manager, Chicago 15,000
Gulf Pacific Trust Co., F. Lehman and R. G. Herndon,
Chicago, New Orleans and San Francisco 50,000
Investors' Profit-Sharing and Protective Association, Chicago 12,000
J. J. Shea & Company, Chicago 10,000
Standard Investment Bureau, Chicago and San Francisco 25,000
The Security Savings Society, W. R. Bennett, Chicago 1,500,000
The Investors' Protective Association, Frank E. Stone,
Chicago 200,000
D. W. Moodey & Co., Chicago 50,000
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