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CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER X. CHAPTER XI. CHAPTER XII. CHAPTER XIII. CHAPTER XIV. CHAPTER XV. CHAPTER XVI. CHAPTER XVII. CHAPTER XVIII. CHAPTER XIX. CHAPTER XX. 1 CHAPTER XXI. CHAPTER XXII. CHAPTER XXIII. CHAPTER XXIV. CHAPTER XXV. CHAPTER XXVI. CHAPTER XXVII. CHAPTER XXVIII. CHAPTER XXIX. CHAPTER XXX. CHAPTER XXXI. CHAPTER XXXII. CHAPTER XXXIII. CHAPTER XXXIV. CHAPTER XXXV. CHAPTER XXXVI. CHAPTER XXXVII. CHAPTER XXXVIII. CHAPTER XXXIX. CHAPTER XL. CHAPTER XLI. CHAPTER XLII. CHAPTER XLIII. CHAPTER XLIV. CHAPTER XLV. CHAPTER XLVI. CHAPTER XLVII. CHAPTER XLVIII. CHAPTER XLIX. CHAPTER L. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER X. CHAPTER XI. CHAPTER XII. CHAPTER XIII. CHAPTER XIV. CHAPTER XV. CHAPTER XVI. CHAPTER XVII. CHAPTER XVIII. CHAPTER XIX. CHAPTER XX. CHAPTER XXI. CHAPTER XXII. 2 CHAPTER XXIII. CHAPTER XXIV. CHAPTER XXV. CHAPTER XXVI. CHAPTER XXVII. CHAPTER XXVIII. CHAPTER XXIX. CHAPTER XXX. CHAPTER XXXI. CHAPTER XXXII. CHAPTER XXXIII. CHAPTER XXXIV. CHAPTER XXXV. CHAPTER XXXVI. CHAPTER XXXVII. CHAPTER XXXVIII. CHAPTER XXXIX. CHAPTER XL. CHAPTER XLI. CHAPTER XLII. CHAPTER XLIII. CHAPTER XLIV. CHAPTER XLV. CHAPTER XLVI. CHAPTER XLVII. CHAPTER XLVIII. CHAPTER XLIX. CHAPTER L. Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to by Austin Biron Bidwell The Project Gutenberg EBook of Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison, by Austin Biron Bidwell This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude Author: Austin Biron Bidwell Release Date: March 2, 2008 [EBook #24739] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BIDWELL'S TRAVELS *** Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to by Austin Biron Bidwell 3 Produced by Afra Ullah and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) BIDWELL'S TRAVELS. FROM Wall Street To London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude. FREED A HUMAN WRECK, A WONDERFUL SURVIVAL AND A MORE WONDERFUL RISE IN THE WORLD. TO-DAY HE HAS A NATIONAL REPUTATION AS A WRITER, SPEAKER AND IS CONSIDERED AN AUTHORITY ON ALL SOCIAL PROBLEMS. HE WAS TRIED AT THE OLD BAILEY AND SENTENCED FOR LIFE. CHARGED WITH THE £1,000,000 FORGERY ON THE BANK OF ENGLAND. THIS STORY SHOWS THAT THE EVENTS OF HIS LIFE SURPASS THE IMAGINATIONS OF OUR FAMOUS NOVELISTS, ITS THRILLING SCENES, HAIR-BREADTH ESCAPES AND MARVELOUS ADVENTURES ARE NOT A RECORD OF CRIME, BUT ARE PROOFS OF THAT IN THE WORLD OF WRONGDOING SUCCESS IS FAILURE. 490 Pages. 80 Graphic Illustrations. Copyrighted 1897 by BIDWELL PUBLISHING COMPANY, HARTFORD, CONN. Editorial New York Herald. Referring to a Whole Page. "If an American dramatist or novelist had taken for the ground work of a play or work of fiction the story of the Bidwell family to-day related on another page of the Herald, all European critics would have told him that the story was too 'American,' too vast in its outlines, too high in its colors, too merely 'big' in fact. "The story has its lesson. The play is not a mere spectacle. The lesson is that in the doing and undoing of wrong the Bidwell family expended enough ability and energy to stock a good many reigning European families for generations. "Let the Comedie Humaine write itself and it will outwrite Balzac." Hon. Lyman J. Gage. Having read the Bidwell book I believe it will benefit every one to read this marvellous history of human experience. Aside from its dramatic interest there are great moral lessons involved of especial value to young men and employees in positions of trust. Therefore, I recommend this book as unique and a valuable acquisition for home and office. Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to by Austin Biron Bidwell 4 From Chas. M. Stead, Union League Club, New York. "Dear Sir I read your book with a good deal of interest, and would like to change it for a higher-priced binding if you have one." The Worcester Spy. "Mr. Bidwell's book has been compared with Dumas' famous 'Monte Christo.' The extraordinary character of its adventures, indeed, would render it dramatic and powerful as fiction; as human truth, it is simply overwhelming. No one can read this book unmoved. From every conceivable standpoint, physiological, sociological, and literary, it is a marvel." Philip W. Moen. Mr. Moen, of Washburn & Moen, Worcester, Mass., writes: "I have read Mr. George Bidwell's book with the deepest interest. It is a book that deserves to be widely read, and I am very glad to recommend it." A Niece of Oliver Wendell Holmes writes: "Few books have so stirred my mind for years as the book by George Bidwell. Hearing of the book, prejudice immediately seized me against it. The history given by himself, to be interesting at all must be sensational, therefore disastrous to morals. So avowed prejudiced thought; and, determined to find fault, I began this remarkable history. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND FAULT WITH THE BOOK, WHICH IS VALUABLE AND WONDERFULLY ABSORBING." From Ira D. Sankey, Esq. "MR. GEORGE BIDWELL, Dear Sir I have read with great interest your book, and believe it will do much good among young men wherever read. Your life is a proof and your book a burning record of the truth that 'Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap.' I believe in throwing light into all the dark places of this life, that men, seeing the dangers, they may avoid them. I wish you success." From Hon. Robert G. Ingersoll. "GEORGE BIDWELL, ESQ.: My Dear Sir Knowing as I do that you will tell a candid story of your career, I believe you will do good. Crime springs mostly from a lack of intelligence and imagination. Only the foolish can think that the practice of vice is the road to joy. As a matter of fact, the wrong does not pay. You have, in your remarkable book, made this fact perfectly clear, and you will enforce this great truth on the platform. In the world of crime success is failure. Good luck to you." Rev. Dr. Edward Beecher writes; "I recommend this book to the friends of morality." Office of Street's Insurance Agency, Hartford, Conn. "MR. GEORGE BIDWELL, Dear Sir A clergyman consulted with me regarding his son, who had fallen into bad associations, taken part in many small thefts, and seemed hardened against shame or dread of exposure. I believe the mean, dangerous boy has become a man by reading your book." Yours very truly, Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to by Austin Biron Bidwell 5 F. F. STREET, Hartford, Conn. Hartford Daily Times. "This autobiography is a story of thrilling interest." CONTENTS. A NEW YORK HERALD EDITORIAL. Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to by Austin Biron Bidwell 6 CHAPTER I. Brooklyn Public Schools in the Sixties Old. No. 13 Parents Suited to the Golden Age A Curious Preparation for the Battle of Life Knew that Brutus Slew Caesar George the Third Was a Bad Fellow Who Got a Tea Kettle Thrown at His Head In Boston Harbor My Model Home Library An Innocent Leaves Home. 19 CHAPTER I. 7 CHAPTER II. In a Broker's Office A Nice Old Gentleman Situation in Wall Street An Up-to-Date Young Man Visions of Wealth Speculations Wall Street in the Sixties The Hon. John Morrissey, ex-Pugilist His Famous Gambling House I Try a Game of Faro Midnight Banquets I Have Entered the Primrose Way. 24 CHAPTER II. 8 CHAPTER III. Pleasure Before Business Result of That Method On Financial Rocks James, Otherwise "Jimmy," Irving He Was a Model Chief of Detectives Police Headquarters, 300 Mulberry Street, in the Early Seventies He Takes Me for a Drive out Harlem Lane A Trio of Detectives They Make a Startling Proposition A $10,000 Temptation Mental Conflicts I Dare Not Be Poor C'est le Premier Pas Qui Coute. 28 CHAPTER III. 9 CHAPTER IV. History of the Famous Lord Bond Steal "On the Office" Three Sneaks Stumble on a Fortune A $1,250,000 Tin Box Dazed Crooks What to Do with Their White Elephant Excitement at Police Headquarters Bullard et al A Violin Virtuoso Superintendent of Police Kelso Presents a $500 Silver Punch Bowl to the Daughter of Boss Tweed Paid for with Stolen Cash. 36 CHAPTER IV. 10 [...]... Headquarters A Douceur to the Chief In a Tight Spot A "Doctored" Passport A Detective on Trail Who Ingratiates Himself into Mac's Confidence Manoeuvres The Detective on a "Wild Goose Chase" Safely on Board A Distinguished Party in a Rowboat A Stern Chase Off at Last 173 CHAPTER XVIII CHAPTER XVIII Rio to Buenos Ayres Return and Meet Mac in Paris Determine to Abandon a Dangerous Business Vienna Watching the Game... Drive to Hampton Court Send $10,000 Police Tribute to New York Discussing the Bank of England in the Throne Room at Windsor Castle Believe It to Be a Fossil Institution Greene, the Tailor Introduces Me to Bank No References Required Joy That Ends in Sorrow 142 CHAPTER XV CHAPTER XV Voyage to Rio Janeiro The Lady of the Lucitania A Swedish Colonel's Party of English Engineers A Bibulous Chaplain Modern... 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... 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 31 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... 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 32 CHAPTER XXVI An Unceremonious Call "I am a Fenian Leader" A "Story" Told in the Dark... Have More Money Good Resolutions Vanish Return to London Determine to Assault the Bank of England Deposit $67,000 186 24 CHAPTER XIX CHAPTER XIX Bank of England Requires No References Letter from Paris A Gilded American Young Man Duped into Marriage with a Parisienne Möndaine A Ghost at Monte Carlo In a Greenwood Mausoleum Earthly Happiness and the World to Come 193 25 CHAPTER XX 26 CHAPTER XX A Council... the Fort A Fruitless Hunt Many Innocents Arrested Maloy Becomes a "Know-Nothing." 261 CHAPTER XXVII 33 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... Forefathers No Change in a Century Our Paper Is Discounted Prepare for Flight Thou Shalt Not 214 28 CHAPTER XXIII 29 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... Arrival at Burgos Startling Telegrams Revolution at Madrid The Railway Seized My Party in a Trap Madrid Cathedral and a Bull Fight A Special Train Proves a Slow Train No News Good News 292 34 CHAPTER XXIX 35 CHAPTER XXIX Arrival in Santander Gloomy Forebodings Sail for Cuba Watch the Pyrenees Sink in the Sea Two Sisters of Charity, Innocents on a Voyage Circus at St Thomas Sunset Gun in Havana Thirty Seconds... Innocents on a Voyage Circus at St Thomas Sunset Gun in Havana Thirty Seconds Change My Destiny 301 CHAPTER XXX CHAPTER XXX Slavery in Cuba Life in Havana The Million-Pound Forgery Discovered My Opinion Asked Trip to the Isle of Pines The Cuban Rebels A Battle Field A Slave Cook The Missionary and the Cannibal Going into the Interior 312 36 . XLIX. CHAPTER L. Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to by Austin Biron Bidwell The Project Gutenberg EBook of Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison, by Austin Biron Bidwell This. Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude Author: Austin Biron Bidwell Release. is a story of thrilling interest." CONTENTS. A NEW YORK HERALD EDITORIAL. Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to by Austin Biron Bidwell 6 CHAPTER I. Brooklyn Public Schools in the