The grafters of America, who they are and how they work . dge discovered a vault in one corner of the room, 394 THE ADVENTURES AND WORK After much parleying it was unlocked, but not beforethreats were used on Stone in place of argument. Thesight that met the officers gaze astonished them. Theiron strong box contained several telegraph instruments, a public telephone andWBiXM a ticker. The officerssummoned the own-ers of the ticker andcompelled them to re-move their machineand the telephonecompany was askedto remove its instru-ment, the explanationof Detective Wool-dridge being thatboth instrum
The grafters of America, who they are and how they work . dge discovered a vault in one corner of the room, 394 THE ADVENTURES AND WORK After much parleying it was unlocked, but not beforethreats were used on Stone in place of argument. Thesight that met the officers gaze astonished them. Theiron strong box contained several telegraph instruments, a public telephone andWBiXM a ticker. The officerssummoned the own-ers of the ticker andcompelled them to re-move their machineand the telephonecompany was askedto remove its instru-ment, the explanationof Detective Wool-dridge being thatboth instrumentswere being used in aconfidence game. While the investi-gation of the den wasunder way the swin-dlers made one oftheir stage plays. Ashort, heavy-set man rushed into the office and, assum-ing a highly important and business-like air, said toStone:Send over my telephones to-day—I need he quickly left the office, but not before he hadbeen recognized by Wooldridge as Eddie Dunne, one ofthe smoothest and nerviest wire-tappers in the Frank Dunn, alias Eddie Dunn. OF A DETECTIVE 395 Here again the police had to content themselves withputting a confidence parlor out of business, becausetheir visit had netted them nothing in the way of directevidence that anybody had been swindled. The favorite method of getting suckers for the fakewire tapping game is to advertise for a man with $1,000or some other special amount to invest. The advertise-ment informs that he will have full control of his typical experience by a man who answered one ofthese ads, was that of S. L. Seabrook, 4750 Lake ave-nue. Mr. Seabrook was attracted by the ad June 3,1901, and he replied to it. A meeting was arranged be-tween him and Frank Cain at the Grand Pacific hotel. At this conference Cain unfolded to Seabrook the de-tails of his scheme to get rich suddenly. It was the sameold story of tapping the wire leading into a poolroom,holding up the result until the $1,000 could be place
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