$1,000,000 Secured by These Get-Rich-Quick Schemers Discovered by Detective Clifton R. Wooldridge, Chicago's Famous Police Detective.
- 125 matrimonial agencies in Chicago raided and closed in the last five years.
- 4,500,000 matrimonial letters seized and destroyed.
- 1,500,000 matrimonial agencies' stock letters seized and destroyed.
- 1,400,000 matrimonial stock photographs seized and destroyed.
- 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.
One of the most insidious forms of crime is the Matrimonial Agency. Seemingly harmless, or at most merely foolish, is the Matrimonial Agency at its inception.
But step by step within the past few years we have seen the Matrimonial Agency turned into a volcano belching forth fraud, swindling, bigamy, desertion, and finally ghastly wholesale murder.
We have seen the Matrimonial Agency sweep the whole range of the world of crime from the petty thieving of a Carson to the almost unbelievable horrors of the Gunness Farm.
THE SORROWS OF CUPID
"He Does Not See All the Rocks Ahead When He Brings Two Young People Together"—Beatrice Fairfax.
And this monster is hydra-headed. Stamp it out in one place and it immediately reappears in another. Send a "manager" to prison once, twice, ten times, and the minute the prison doors are open he is back at the old stand doing business.