Twenty Years A Detective In The Wickedest City In The World

Author : Clifton Rodman Woolridge
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781465595058

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Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World by Clifton Rodman Woolridge Pdf

In presenting this work to the public the author has no apologies to make nor favors to ask. It is a simple history of his connection with the Police Department of Chicago, compiled from his own memoranda, the newspapers, and the official records. The matter herein contained differs from those records only in details, as many facts are given in the book which have never been made public. The author has no disposition to malign any one, and names are used only in cases in which the facts are supported by the archives of the Police Department and of the criminal court. In the conscientious discharge of his duties as an officer of the law, the author has in all cases studied the mode of legal procedure. His aim has been solely to protect society and the taxpayer, and to punish the guilty. The evidences of his sincerity accompany the book in the form of letters from the highest officers in the city government, from the mayor down to the precinct captain, and furnish overwhelming testimony as to his endeavors to serve the public faithfully and honestly. No effort has been made to bestow self-praise, and where this occurs, it is only a reproduction, perhaps in different language, of the comments indulged in by the newspapers of Chicago and other cities, whose reporters are among the brightest and most talented young men in all the walks and professions of life. To them the officer acknowledges his obligations in many instances. Often he has worked hand-in-hand with them. They have traveled with him in the dead hours of the night, in his efforts to suppress crime or track a criminal, and have often given him assistance in the way of suggestions.

Author : Clifton Rodman Wooldridge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Crime
ISBN : OCLC:638994038

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Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World by Clifton Rodman Wooldridge Pdf

Author : Clifton R. Wooldridge
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 026778452X

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Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World by Clifton R. Wooldridge Pdf

Excerpt from Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World: 20, 000 Arrests Made, 12, 900 Convictions on State and City Laws, 200 Penitentiary Convictions; The Devil and the Grafter, and How They Work Together to Deceive, Swindle and Destroy Mankind The two arch enemies of happiness and prosperity are the Devil and the Grafter. The church is fighting the Devil, the law is fighting the Grafter. The great mass of human beings, as they journey along the pathway of life, know not the dan gers that lie in wait from these two sources. Honest them selves, credulous and innocent, they trust their fellow man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : William Kuby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107160262

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Conjugal Misconduct by William Kuby Pdf

Examines the experiences of couples in controversial unions and the legal and cultural backlash against contested marital arrangements in twentieth-century America. Will appeal to readers studying marriage law, gender, sexuality, class, and race in the US, and those seeking historical insight into the recent debates over the definition of marriage.

Author : Clifton R 1854-1933 Wooldridge
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1017680906

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Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World. 20,000 Arrests Made, 12,900 Convictions on State and City Laws, 200 Penitentiary Convictions. The Devil and the Grafter and how They Work Together to Deceive, Swindle and Destroy Mankind .. by Clifton R 1854-1933 Wooldridge Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Anne Meis Knupfer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136691737

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Reform and Resistance by Anne Meis Knupfer Pdf

Examining the encounters between the girls and the new arm of the state in Cook County, Illinois, Anne Meis Knupfer illuminates the origin of American notions of gender and delinquency. Combining rigorous research with passionate writing, Reform and Resistance is a good story about bad girls.

Author : Michael Pettit
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226923741

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The Science of Deception by Michael Pettit Pdf

Michael Pettit reveals how deception came to be something that psychologists not only studied but also employed to establish their authority. They developed a host of tools for making deception more transparent in the courts and elsewhere.

Author : Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1256 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105128868796

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Catalogue of Copyright Entries: Books, Dramatic Compositions, Maps and Charts by Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Jane Simon Ammeson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684351619

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America's Femme Fatale by Jane Simon Ammeson Pdf

How does a Norwegian farm girl become an infamous American serial killer, responsible for upward of 40 murders? Born in rural Norway in 1859, "Belle" Storset Sorenson Gunness was constantly dealt bad hands in life—so she decided to take life into her own hands. In America's Femme Fatale: The Story of Serial Killer Belle Gunness, Jane Simon Ammeson traces Gunness's path from a poor teenager rejected by a wealthy lover; to a new wife in Chicago, desperate to escape the poverty of her childhood and impatient for a child to love; to an ambitious, widowed landowner in La Porte, Indiana. Ammeson's careful research reveals how the young immigrant slowly turned into one of America's most dangerous serial killers, allegedly murdering husbands, lovers, and children, and, for a price, disposing of inconvenient corpses for others. Ammeson brings this shocking story to life, detailing the suspicious neighbors who were cowed into silence by Belle's intimidating personality, the culture of orphanages trafficking children and matrimonial agencies, the carnival atmosphere that exploded around the pile of bones found on Gunness's farm, and the sensational reporting that filled newspapers for months. Perfect for true crime fans fascinated by the creation of a sociopathic serial killer, America's Femme Fatale will leave you entertained and looking over your shoulder.

Author : Michael A. Bellesiles
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1999-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814712955

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Lethal Imagination by Michael A. Bellesiles Pdf

Examining the role of violence in America's past, this collection of essays explores its history and development from slave patrols in the colonial South to gun ownership in the 20th century. The contributors focus not only on individual acts such as domestic violence, murder, duelling, frontier vigilantism and rape, but also on group and state-led acts such as lynchings, slave uprisings, the establishment of rifle clubs, legal sanctions of heterosexual aggression, and invasive medical experiments on women's bodies.

Author : Henry Kamerling
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813940564

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Capital and Convict by Henry Kamerling Pdf

Both in the popular imagination and in academic discourse, North and South are presented as fundamentally divergent penal systems in the aftermath of the Civil War, a difference mapped onto larger perceived cultural disparities between the two regions. The South’s post Civil War embrace of chain gangs and convict leasing occupies such a prominent position in the nation’s imagination that it has come to represent one of the region’s hallmark differences from the North. The regions are different, the argument goes, because they punish differently. Capital and Convict challenges this assumption by offering a comparative study of Illinois’s and South Carolina’s formal state penal systems in the fifty years after the Civil War. Henry Kamerling argues that although punishment was racially inflected both during Reconstruction and after, shared, nonracial factors defined both states' penal systems throughout this period. The similarities in the lived experiences of inmates in both states suggest that the popular focus on the racial characteristics of southern punishment has shielded us from an examination of important underlying factors that prove just as central—if not more so—in shaping the realities of crime and punishment throughout the United States.

Author : Gayle Rogers
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231553490

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Speculation by Gayle Rogers Pdf

In the modern world, why do we still resort to speculation? Advances in scientific and statistical reasoning are supposed to have provided greater certainty in making claims about the future. Yet we constantly spin out scenarios about tomorrow, for ourselves or for entire societies, with flimsy or no evidence. Insubstantial speculations—from utopian thinking to high-risk stock gambles—often provoke fierce backlash, even when they prove prophetic for the world we come to inhabit. Why does this hypothetical way of thinking generate such controversy? In this cultural, literary, and intellectual history, Gayle Rogers traces debates over speculation from antiquity to the present. Celebrated by Boethius as the height of humanity’s mental powers but denigrated as sinful by John Calvin, speculation eventually became central to the scientific revolution’s new methods of seeing the natural world. In the nineteenth century, writers such as Jane Austen used the concept to diagnose the marriage market, redefining speculation for the purpose of social critique. Speculation fueled the development of modern capitalism, spurring booms, busts, and bubbles, and recently artificial intelligence has automated the speculation previously done by humans, with uncertain and troubling consequences. Unraveling these histories and many other disputes, Rogers argues that what has always been at stake in arguments over speculation, and why it so often appears so threatening, is the authority to produce and control knowledge about the future. Recasting centuries of contests over the power to anticipate tomorrow, this book reveals the crucial role speculation has played in how we create—and potentially destroy—the future.

Author : Jeffrey S. Adler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674020085

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First in Violence, Deepest in Dirt by Jeffrey S. Adler Pdf

Between 1875 and 1920, Chicago's homicide rate more than quadrupled, making it the most violent major urban center in the United States--or, in the words of Lincoln Steffens, "first in violence, deepest in dirt." In many ways, however, Chicago became more orderly as it grew. Hundreds of thousands of newcomers poured into the city, yet levels of disorder fell and rates of drunkenness, brawling, and accidental death dropped. But if Chicagoans became less volatile and less impulsive, they also became more homicidal. Based on an analysis of nearly six thousand homicide cases, First in Violence, Deepest in Dirt examines the ways in which industrialization, immigration, poverty, ethnic and racial conflict, and powerful cultural forces reshaped city life and generated soaring levels of lethal violence. Drawing on suicide notes, deathbed declarations, courtroom testimony, and commutation petitions, Jeffrey Adler reveals the pressures fueling murders in turn-of-the-century Chicago. During this era Chicagoans confronted social and cultural pressures powerful enough to trigger surging levels of spouse killing and fatal robberies. Homicide shifted from the swaggering rituals of plebeian masculinity into family life and then into street life. From rage killers to the "Baby Bandit Quartet," Adler offers a dramatic portrait of Chicago during a period in which the characteristic elements of modern homicide in America emerged.

Author : Clifton K. Yearley
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1970-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781438424606

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The Money Machines by Clifton K. Yearley Pdf

The Money Machines advances the provocative thesis that the mechanisms for financing state and local government in the Northern United States from 1860 to 1920 were deeply enmeshed with those financing the extralegal—often illegal—activities of the major political parties, complicating reform or change mandated by the post-Civil War breakdown of the North's legal fiscal machinery. Few reformers then recognized the interdependence of government and the party money machines; fewer still acknowledged the effectiveness or social value of the extralegal machines. On the contrary, basic fiscal reform in this period was characterized by attempts to exorcise "politics" in any form, which in turn provoked counteraction from politicians whose organizations had the same need for efficient, reliable revenue systems as did governments. Dr. Yearley demonstrates the failure of the established legal money machines to cope with the demands of postwar governments facing industrialization and urbanization. He characterizes the revolt of old and new middle classes against fiscal inequity and inefficiency and shows how much of the North's new wealth escaped taxation altogether while much of its old wealth similarly went into hiding. Because of its forbidding complexities, tax reform was sustained by a small group of experts from the middle class, whose sincerity and competence were unquestionable, but whose reformism evidenced the peculiar views and prejudices of their class. Here, therefore, the graft-grabbing politician is presented in a fresh light. In his efforts to maintain his sources of revenue and power, he emerges as a vital instrument of mass democracy, of the new politics of the ever-growing urban lower classes as well as their principal source of government welfare or support. The author reevaluates the Gilded Age politician in several important ways, principally regarding his power relationship to the business communities and his ability to perform his job well despite middle class disdain and continual allegations of fraud and incompetence. Further, Dr. Yearley shows that often politicians were ahead of reformers in their fiscal thinking in recognizing and utilizing taxation of income rather than of property. The volume considers in some depth several individual reformers, revealing them to be, among other things, prototypes of present academic experts used by government to manage problems too complex for laymen. The book then proceeds to explain essential changes made in local fiscal systems and which of these were to be the most effective, explanations that are of particular interest in view of the continuing crises in state and local financing today.

Author : Rosan A. Jordan,Susan J. Kalcik
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812293388

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Women's Folklore, Women's Culture by Rosan A. Jordan,Susan J. Kalcik Pdf

The essays in Women's Folklore, Women's Culture focus on women performers of folklore and on women's genre of folklore. Long ignored, women's folklore is often collaborative and frequently is enacted in the privacy of the domestic sphere. This book provides insights balancing traditional folklore scholarship. All of the authors also explore the relationship between make and female views and worlds. The book begins with the private world of women, performances within the intimacy of family and fields; it then studies women's folklore in the public arena; finally, the book looks at the interrelationships between public and private arenas and between male and female activities. By turning our attention to previously ignored women's realms, these essays provide a new perspective from which to view human culture as a whole and make Women's Folklore, Women's Culture a significant addition to folklore scholarship