500,000 photographs sent to the matrimonial agencies by men and women who were seeking their affinities seized and destroyed.
40 wagon loads of matrimonial literature seized and destroyed.
110 turf frauds raided and closed: $8,000,000 lost by the public.
$20,000 bribe was offered Wooldridge by the turf swindlers to let them run, but he refused to take it.
105 panel houses raided and closed.
$1,500,000 was stolen annually from 1889 to October, 1896. At that time there were 64 uniformed officers stationed in front of the panel houses. Detectives Wooldridge and Schubert were assigned to break them, which was accomplished in three weeks' time.
100 bucketshops raided and closed; $5,000,000 lost through them.
July 31, 1900, Detective Wooldridge, in charge of 50 officers, arrested 415 men and landed them in the Harrison Street Police Station, and dismantled the following bucketshops:
10 and 12 Pacific avenue, 25 Sherman street, 14 Pacific avenue, 10 Pacific avenue, 210 Opera House Block, 7 Exchange court, 19 Lyric Building, and 37 Dearborn street. It was one of the largest and most sensational raids ever made in Chicago, and will be long remembered.