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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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whom she bent her efforts. Manycheerfully gave money to the green sister in the beliefthat their good luck was due to her presence at the track.Others donated rather than be dubbed cheap before acar full of people, most of whom were aware of theirsuccess in the betting ring. But it mattered not to Rachelwhat motives inspired the cointributions so long as theyfound their way to her fat pocket book. The racingseason was fine for Rachel. Soon after one of the solicitors was sent to St. Louisit was discovered by the police that an account of largeproportions had been opened with a bank in that city.The Republican and Democratic conventions at Spring-field, 111., were a source of harvest and in Chicago con-tributing to the green sisters had become a habit withthousands of people. The public had accepted the nunsas an established institution and opened up their pursestrings accordingly. The fall came October 18, 1904. The police had heardfrom Secretary Egan of the State Board of Health that
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HlQHl SCENES ON THE LEVEE, 226 THE ADVENTURES AND WORK the Epileptic Charity home was a bogus proposition andthey determined to break it up. Detective Wooldridge raided the Wisconsin streetoffice and then went to the Blue Island house, where,accompanied by the chief of the local police, he paid acall upon Rachel. The woman was found in an invalidschair, with a pair of crutches at her side. She claimedto be unable to move, owing to an injury she had receivedby falling through a defective sidewalk. She discussedher work with the officers, however, and put up anartistic game of talk concerning the conduct of her sys-tem. She claimed that most of her patients were scat-tered throughout Chicago and they were treated at theirhomes or else called at the sanitarium for attention. The Blue Island City Council had enacted an ordinanceprohibiting a home for epileptics in the town, but thethreat of the Gorman woman to sue the city for damagesfor her injury seemed to restrain the city authorities

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