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Title: The grafters of America, who they are and how they work
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Wooldridge, Clifton R(odman), 1854- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Chicago, Monarch book company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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an out, and when she surveyed the wreck she mildlyobserved: I wonder how on earth that could possibly have hap-pened when I am such a good driver! I give you fair warning. I saw her at the wagon shopyesterday bargaining for a new wheel. She intends todrive out again. No arrangements can be made withthe signal service men to hoist the danger flag when shestarts out, nor will the police ride on ahead and clear thestreets. The public must look out for itself until thelegislature again convenes and some law can be made tocover the case. RACHEL GORMANS GREEN SISTERS GRAFT. How Thousands of Dollars Were Collected for theCare and Cure of Epileptics by One of the Smooth-est Confidence Women in the World—Garbedas Nuns Solicitors Preyed Upon Wealthyand Prominent Men. The rise and fall of Rachel Gorman makes one of themost unique stories in the history of graft. The womansscheme was peculiar to herself. She was in no sense acopyist, but on the contrary was an originator. Her OF A DETECTIVE 217
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(KSBSIOU 0» TBS 218 THE ADVENTURES AND WORK methods were bold and far-reaching. She rushed inwhere angels feared to tread and made good. In thegarb of a nun she placed the magic touch upon the pursestrings of men high in office, of race track frequentersand of business men, and she had dozens of trained as-sistants doing the same thing. And then in the samenuns habiliments she would toss her easily gotten pelfover saloon bars within a stones throw of the offices ofher victims, lift her saintly robes to her knees and dancejigs of jubilation for the edification of those who werehelping her to drink up the money she had collected inthe name of suffering humanity. All in all Rachel was a wonder. She served an ex-tended apprenticeship before essaying to strike out forherself, and when she did launch her bark upon thegolden sea of graft, she trimmed her sails in a mannerthat left all rivals in her wake. Even after her craftstruck the shoals of police interferen

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