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
"I had about twelve answers to this advertisement, and I
picked out a boarding house mistress, and ten days after
she was Mrs. Westfield, and as she was a vulgar woman,
I left her two days after. She had given me $500 before
marriage.
"I returned to New York to wife No. 2, and a week after I
went to St. Louis and inserted an 'ad.' as previously, and
got fifteen answers. There I selected a farmer's daughter
and married her as Dr. Doesser. I married and left her all
within a week.
"I came to Detroit, and with her money, $350, I started
a dental practice as A. Houser. In answer to my
advertisements in a German paper, Mrs. Piser came.
"We went to Toledo, O., five days after our first
interview, and we got married. I left her six days after.
"I came now to Pittsburg, as Dr. Wolfe, got a furnished
room in Allegheny. In answer to an 'ad.' in a German paper
a sexton's daughter answered, the ugliest I ever had. Three
days after we went to the justice of the peace and got
married."
DESERTS WIFE AFTER THE FIRST DAY.
"There I slept the first night, and the next morning I
was on my way to Cleveland, and started a nice practice
with the $150 I had left. I paid the balance to my friend,
Badillo, and inserted an 'ad.' in the Plain-Dealer.
"I had two answers to my 'ad.,' and selected a Mrs. Moore,
a nurse, and a Mrs. Kreidman. I got from the nurse $100,
and was making love to Mrs. Kreidman and Mrs. Moore, when I
got a letter from wife No. 3, with whom I corresponded all
the time, telling her I traveled for a firm.
"So I left, and forgot that I left in Cleveland a paper
under the tablecloth which had my address in Brooklyn. One
morning (ten days after I left Cleveland) two detectives
came to the house in Brooklyn and arrested me. As there
was no bail for my offense (obtaining money under false
pretenses), I returned to Cleveland a week later, and there
I married a bad woman in jail, Mrs. Kreidman.
"She gave $200 bond, but I left her four days after, as she
was a bad woman. I slept one night at her house, and three
days after I went to Chicago and went to see a matrimonial
agent at 55 Washington street.
IDENTIFIED IN CHICAGO; WEDDING STOPPED.
"He introduced me to a nice Jewess, and her father gave me
$400. I started an office on Fourteenth street, when a man
from Philadelphia recognized me, and told her father, a rag
dealer, that I was a married man, named Hausen, just in
time to prevent the marriage.
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