The grafters of America, who they are and how they work . by name, working under my instructions,played havoc with their operations, and notwithstandingthe pleadings and protests of the schemers and their at-torneys, the law was found to be practical and compre-hensive enough to put them out of business and into jail. Again, in his report for the year 1903, the generalsuperintendent of police declares: In no branch of police effort were the results so uni-formly satisfactory as in the suppression of so-calledget-rich-quick concerns. The year 1903 was one ofuninterrupted disaster to the schemes
The grafters of America, who they are and how they work . by name, working under my instructions,played havoc with their operations, and notwithstandingthe pleadings and protests of the schemers and their at-torneys, the law was found to be practical and compre-hensive enough to put them out of business and into jail. Again, in his report for the year 1903, the generalsuperintendent of police declares: In no branch of police effort were the results so uni-formly satisfactory as in the suppression of so-calledget-rich-quick concerns. The year 1903 was one ofuninterrupted disaster to the schemes concocted by fer-tile brains to delude the credulous and unwary of bothsexes. The special detail under charge of Officer CliftonR. Wooldridge, operating from the office of the generalsuperintendent, has punished and put out of businessscores of matrimonial bureaus and agencies, turf invest-ment concerns, home building associations, bucket shops,lotteries, wire tappers, fake promoters, book agencies andmiscellaneous concerns. 378 THE ADVENTURES AND WORK. VjpUNDKBD 10 TEN THOUSAND. WIRE the Wires of the Western Union Telegraph Company. OF A DETECTIVE 37J WIRE TAPPING. Of all the grafts wire tapping is the most furnishes situations which could not possibly bebrought about in any other branch of business, legitimateor otherwise. In a wire tapping gang there must bemen of brain, men of education, men of mechanical ex-pertness and perhaps a woman or two. The game re-quires tact, business foresight, diplomacy, nerve and atechnical knowledge of the delicate science of electricityand the ends to which the force can be used. No common, ordinary telegraph operator; no cheapgrafter of the marriage bureau type; no weakling, norough-neck, no mutt (which is short for mutton-headin the world of graft) was ever captured by the police ina wire tapping game. Absolute trustworthiness is one ofthe first essentials of a wire tapper. There are trips acrossthe country to m
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