30 fraudulent book concerns raided and closed; $1,000,000 lost.
28 panel-house keepers were indicted and convicted.
15 owners of the property were indicted and convicted.
This broke the panel-house keepers' backbone and they never recovered to resume business again.
Emma Ford, sentenced to the penitentiary April 5, 1902, for five years. Pearl Smith, her sister, sentenced to the penitentiary June 19, 1893, for five years. Mary White, May 20, 1893, for two years. Flossie Moore, March 27, 1893, for five years. Seventy-five thousand dollars is said to have been stolen by her in eighteen months.
$8,000 bribe was offered Detective Wooldridge to let Flossie Moore slip through his fingers.
$3,000 bribe was offered by the same woman for the address of Sadie Jorden, who was an eye witness of the robbery of E. S. Johnson, a retired merchant, aged 74 years.
28 wire tappers were raided and closed. These men secured the quotations from the Board of Trade and pool rooms, and hundreds of thousands of dollars were secured from the speculators who were victimized; $200,000 lost.
27 dishonest collecting agencies raided and closed; $200,000 lost.