Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison: Fifteen Years in SolitudeBidwell, Austin
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Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison: Fifteen Years in Solitude
Bidwell, Austin
Bank fraud -- England; Bank of England; Bidwell, Austin; Criminals -- Biography
A Council of War--Description of Bills of Exchange--Frederick
Albert Warren, the Great American Railway Contractor--The
Great Bank Proves Fallible--Discounts Bogus Bills of Exchange. 200
CHAPTER XXI.
Draw Fabulous Sums--Bags of Sovereigns by the Cab Load--In a
French Railway Wreck--Baron Alfonse de Rothschild, Head
of the Paris House--A Famous L6,000 Draft. 206
CHAPTER XXII.
Last Call at the Bank of England--Noyes Arrives in London--An
Artful Plot--Introduce Noyes--Plan Now Complete--Our Wise
Forefathers--No Change in a Century--Our Paper Is Discounted--Prepare
for Flight--Thou Shalt Not. 214
CHAPTER XXIII.
Fifty Thousand Dollars a Day--The Golden Shower Continues to
Fall--Operations Shrouded in Midnight Darkness--No Possibility
of Discovery--Finish and Begin Again--Amazing Oversight--Pitcher
Goes Once Too Often--Noyes Arrested--Unparalleled
Excitement on the Stock Exchange. 224
CHAPTER XXIV.
Consternation--A Mob of Bankers--The Financial World Shaken--Noyes
Taken to Newgate--Mac Cables Irving--His Flight to
France--Sails from Havre on Board Thuringia--Arrested at
Quarantine--The Pinkertons on Trail. 236
CHAPTER XXV.
Hunted Through Ireland--$2,500 Reward for My Capture--Detectives
"Spot" Me at the Cork Railway Station--Obliged to
Abandon Taking Passage by the Ill-Fated Atlantic--A Game
of "Hare and Hounds"--Eluding a Detective "Trap"--English
Misrule in Ireland--Am Taken for a Priest--A Typographical
Thunderbolt at Lismore--An Early Morning Walk--A Ride on
an Irish Jaunting Car--"On the Road to Clonmel"--Shelter in
a "Shebeen"--How Thirsty Souls Get the "Craythur" In Ireland--A
Good Old Irish Lady--Pursuit and Refuge in a Ruined
Cottage at Cahir. 248
CHAPTER XXVI.
An Unceremonious Call--"I am a Fenian Leader"--A "Story" Told
in the Dark--Maloy Helps My Escape on an Irish Jaunting
Car--Eggs--A Policeman Anxious to Obtain the Five Hundred
Pounds Reward--Dublin Again--A Jewess' Blessing--I Turn
Russian, and Later Become a Frenchman--Belfast Detectives--Escape
into Scotland--The Other Side of the Story--A Bow
Street Detective's Adventures While Hunting Me Through Ireland
--Cross-Questioning--My Jaunting Car Driver--"A Cold
Water Cure"--Hot on the Trail--Not in the Fort--A Fruitless
Hunt--Many Innocents Arrested--Maloy Becomes a "Know-Nothing." 261
CHAPTER XXVII.
A Marriage at the American Embassy in Paris--Anxious Moments
at Versailles--Off for Spain--Crossing the Pyrenees--Gunshots--Train
off the Track--Captured by Carlist Bandits--Released--Through
the Pass on Ox Carts--A Mountain Blizzard--Camp
in a Snowstorm--Mutiny--A Morning Dream. 275
CHAPTER XXVIII.
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