The Devil
and
the Grafter
And how they work together to Deceive, Swindle and Destroy Mankind. A Thrilling and Graphic Story of Truth Stranger than Fiction.
How a great army of 600,000 criminals in America, under the influence, guidance and leadership of Satan wage continued war with justice, law, society and religion.
BY
Clifton R. Wooldridge
The World's Great
CRIMINOLOGIST
AND DETECTIVE
After twenty years of heroic warfare and scores of hair breadth escapes, in which he suffered wounds and bruises by the hundreds, and baffled death so often that his criminal enemies declare "he leads a charmed life." Mr. Wooldridge, while still "in the harness," has given this volume to the public with the belief that he is sending forth a book with a mission of good to the world.
No man in all our country is so feared by evil doers of all classes as the author of this revelation of the ways and wiles of wicked men and women, who graft and swindle, rob and corrupt their fellows in defiance of law and justice.
"The Incorruptible Sherlock Holmes of America" is the title by which Mr. Wooldridge is favorably known. Hundreds of times large and tempting bribes have been offered him by wealthy criminals; thousands of dollars at a time might have been his for a "wink" at a nefarious practice, or for the loosing of his hold upon a rich criminal's wrist. But like Cæsar's wife, he stands "above suspicion." He is still a poor man, but deeply and earnestly studying the science of criminology, laboring and lecturing for the cure of crime by wise laws and scientific means—declaring himself to be the enemy of crime, but the friend of the criminal, whose disease of crime he believes can be cured, and that it is his mission to help the world suppress crime and find out the way for its elimination.
With an aim so lofty, and a motive so pure, the good people of every religion, all trades, all professions and all classes are in hearty sympathy, and the circulation of this book will not only serve to warn the people against the snares and pitfalls of the Devil and the Grafter (into which thousands of new victims fall and one hundred and sixty millions of dollars of the people's money are lost every year), but it will tend to make Grafting impossible and turn the Grafters into honest, legitimate channels and good citizenship.