The grafters of America, who they are and how they work . , deputy sheriffs with capiases invaded the courtroom and arrested everv one of them. Thev all g^ave J J CD 402 THE ADVENTURES AND WORK bond for their appearance, and on July 13 they werearraigned in Judge Tuleys court for trial. They were represented by four able attorneys. Afteran hour spent in wrangling over an effort to quashthe indictments, the cases were submitted to the court,and four of the promoters and leaders were adjudgedguilty, and they were fined $100 each. These were:Archibald Donaldson, John J. Sheehan, George Mooreand H
The grafters of America, who they are and how they work . , deputy sheriffs with capiases invaded the courtroom and arrested everv one of them. Thev all g^ave J J CD 402 THE ADVENTURES AND WORK bond for their appearance, and on July 13 they werearraigned in Judge Tuleys court for trial. They were represented by four able attorneys. Afteran hour spent in wrangling over an effort to quashthe indictments, the cases were submitted to the court,and four of the promoters and leaders were adjudgedguilty, and they were fined $100 each. These were:Archibald Donaldson, John J. Sheehan, George Mooreand Harry Nelson. This disposed of the charges of keeping a commongaming house under which the twenty-five men wereindicted. This case will go down in history as one of themost unique and remarkable in police and criminal an-nals. Here were twenty-five men arrested and heldunder three hundred charges, and every one indicted,something unknown before in Chicago. It had theeffect of breaking up one of the boldest gangs of swin-dlers that ever infested the iMeasurement Of ;- IfrE Stretgpt •:• 404 THE ADVENTURES AND WORK THE BERTILLON SYSTEM OF IDENTIFICA-TION. If any one had been so bold as to affirm a few yearsago that it would be possible to give such a descriptionof any individual that he could be positively identifiedamong all the millions of people in the world, his state-ments would have been met with ridicule. To-day, how-ever, thanks to the researches of Queletet, the Belgianscientist, and the subsequent labors of Dr. Alphonso Ber-tillon, a celebrated French anthropologist, we are able togive such a detailed description of any given individualthat his identification becomes a matter of absolute cer-tainty. Although it is true that the Bertillon system of an-thropometric identification, as it is called, is primarilyintended for the prevention of crime, this is only one ofthe objects of the system. In every case where the estab-lishment of the identity of an individual
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