[Transcriber's Notes]
Minor punctuation errors have been silently corrected. Some illustrations have descriptions added for the benefit of the plain text version readers.
Title Page: Changed "COVICTIONS" to "CONVICTIONS."
(Orig: 200 PENITENTIARY COVICTIONS)
Title Page: Changed "CRIMINAL" to "CRIMINALS."
(Orig: AN ARMY OF 600,000 CRIMINAL AT WAR WITH SOCIETY AND RELIGION)
Table of Contents: Added listings for the last 15 chapters.
Changed "Wails" to "Wiles" and "Tellers" to "Telling" to match the
chapter title: "Wiles of Fortune Telling."
(Orig: Wails of Fortune Tellers)
Page 28: Changed "acomplished" to "accomplished."
(Orig: it was acomplished successfully.)
Page 28: Changed "connetion" to "connection."
(Orig: he severed his connetion with the railroad)
Page 32: Women's names omitted in original book after the sentence:
(Orig: The following are the names of the women arrested:)
Page 38: Changed "rerevolver" to "revolver."
(Orig: he pushed his rerevolver in Wooldridge's face.)
Page 46: Changed "Woolridge" to "Wooldridge."
(Orig: One of the last exploits of Detective Woolridge)
Page 51: Opening quotes retained; no closing quotes in original.
(Orig: "A 'grafter' is one who makes his living (and sometimes his
fortune) by 'grafting.')
Page 71: Retained "salonkeepers," possible typo for "saloonkeepers."
(Orig: salonkeepers and others that buy them)
Page 92: Changed "phychological" to "psychological."
(Orig: what he considers the right phychological moment,)
Page 97: Changed "knowns" to "knows."
(Orig: it isn't because the public knowns any more than)
Page 110: Retained "senualist;" possibly a typo for "sensualist."
(Orig: it is the senualist whose vice is read in his lips,)
Page 114: Changed "POSSSESED" to "POSSESSED."
(Orig: THE BANKER WILL END LIFE POSSSESED OF WEALTH)
Page 115: Changed "OFERED" to "OFFERED."
(Orig: IN WHICH THEY WERE MAILED ARE OFERED WITH THEM.)
Page 125: Changed "allegitimate" to "illegitimate."
(Orig: he was in an allegitimate business,)
Page 134: Changed "weathy" to "wealthy."
(Orig: ten or twelve weathy ladies,)
Page 136: Changed "Los Angelese" to "Los Angeles."
Page 137: Changed "is" to "it."
(Orig: give it the consideration is deserves.)
Page 140: Retained "Caverley," possible typo for "Caverly."
(Orig: was arrested and fined $15 by Caverley.)
Page 173: Changed "shoudl" to "should."
(Orig: to find if there shoudl be a chord)
Page 203: Changed "vigliance" to "vigilance."
(Orig: he is under the eternal vigliance of our police)
Page 222: Changed "snoke" to "smoke."
(Orig: I don't snoke.)
Page 240: Changed "nof" to "not."
(Orig: "Sophomoric" period is nof fully passed.)
Page 283: Changed "Dicharged" to "Discharged."
(Orig: Insane asylum, Nevada, Mo. Dicharged after several escapes.)
Page 294: Changed "indentification" to "identification."
(Orig: the finger print indentification.)
Page 296: Changed "lot" to "lost."
(Orig: sailor has lot his honorable discharge paper)
Page 301: Changed "rougues" to "rogues."
(Orig: spreading through the rougues' galleries)
Page 347: Opening quotes retained; no closing quotes in original.
(Orig: each witness claimed that the "contract was covered up and they were shown just the part of the paper on which was the space for signature; and Daubach performed many acts in furtherance of the conspiracy.)
Page 351: Changed "slighest" to "slightest."
(Orig: It makes not the slighest difference)
Page 360: Changed "is" to "it."
(Orig: This is not merely because is loosens general morality)
Page 370: Changed "cildhood" to "childhood."
(Orig: toward speculation, even from cildhood.)
Page 373: Changed "nickle's" to "nickel's."
(Orig: good for a nickle's worth)
Page 378: Retained "sideway," possible typo for "slideway."
(Orig: clamp referred to down through the sideway)
Page 382: Sentence possibly missing "do" after "to."
(Orig: Very few are expert enough to this trick without detection.
Page 387: Changed "sailers" to "sailors."
(Orig: the goods were sold to soldiers and sailers.)
Page 406: Changed "torents" to "torrents."
(Orig: the rain which was beating down in torents)
Page 408: Incomplete sentence in original book.
(Orig: His counsel asked for the arrest of judgment so he might
have time to write up the record and present it to the)
Page 419: Changed "mammonth" to "mammoth."
(Orig: Prisoner accused as principal in mammonth swindling plot)
Page 462: Changed "numerious" to "numerous."
(Orig: clear Chicago of its numerious "Fake" patent medicine)
Page 465: Changed "Lavatories" to "Laboratories."
(Orig: Columbus Lavatories conducted the tests.)
Page 465: Retained "either," possible typo for "ether."
(Orig: Aristol is soluble in either, and makes a dark brown)
Page 467: Changed "sppply" to "supply."
(Orig: I have in stock and can sppply without delay.)
Page 468: Changed "Sargeant" to "Sergeant."
(Orig: Desk Sargeant Mike White)
Page 471: Retained original 300,000,000 but the math is incorrect.
Page 494: Changed "felling" to "feeling."
(Orig: the trusting investor the felling that there is a strong hand)
Page 514: Retained "grizzy," possible typo for "grizzly."
(Orig: look out for Indians and grizzy bears.)
Page 563: Retained Joseph Koehy/Koehly variations.
Page 565: Changed "answr" to "answer."
(Orig: to answr for the murder of Webster Guerin)
Page 568: Changed "women" to "woman."
(Orig: Dora McDonald was a wonderfully beautiful and younger women)
Retained spelling variations: R. W. McClaughrey and R. W. McClaughry.