The grafters of America, who they are and how they work . of prosperity, however, that Rachel was prosperingfaster than he was and he discharged her. He gave as hisreasons that she was appropriating too much of the moneycollected for her own use, that she drank to excess andthat her character was not befitting the tender missionupon which she had been delegated. The Illinois Homefor Epileptics led a precarious existence after Rachelceased to play the part of principal meal ticket for it,and after moving about from place to place, found ahome at Arlington Heights, 111. Then it proceeded toburn
The grafters of America, who they are and how they work . of prosperity, however, that Rachel was prosperingfaster than he was and he discharged her. He gave as hisreasons that she was appropriating too much of the moneycollected for her own use, that she drank to excess andthat her character was not befitting the tender missionupon which she had been delegated. The Illinois Homefor Epileptics led a precarious existence after Rachelceased to play the part of principal meal ticket for it,and after moving about from place to place, found ahome at Arlington Heights, 111. Then it proceeded toburn down, leaving the field clear for Rachel, who mean-while had concocted plans of her own for the poor, fore-saken epileptics. She persuaded a man named S. F Cleveland and an-other person, known as Doctor Gibson, to join in theestablishment of an enterprise which was given the titleof the American Chronic and Epileptic were established at 1015 North Clark was manager, Rachel Gorman occupied the OF A DETECTIVE 221. 222 THE ADVENTURES AND WORK charity chair and Doctor Gibson attended to themedical end of the show. It appeared subsequently thatDoctor Gibson was not at that time a physician, butbore the title of Doctor because he was or had beena clergyman. But this scheme ended in a fight. Cleveland accusedthe woman of withholding donations made to herselfand assistants, whom she trained as carefully as a stage-manager directs a comic opera chorus. He also accusedGibson of pretending to be a physician when the extentof his knowledge in the medical line was the administra-tion of some kind of dope to the occasional patientswho dropped in for treatment. Gibson, Gorman & Co. then organized a scheme ontheir own account, called the American Epileptic CharityAssociation, but soon they too split. Cleveland openedthe Cleveland Neurotarium, a fake epileptic cure estab-lishment, at 1065 North Clark street, and sought to emu-late Rachels system of soli
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