Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison

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Author

Bidwell, Austin

Title

Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison: Fifteen Years in Solitude

Credits

Produced by Afra Ullah and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

HV: Social sciences: Social pathology, Social and Public Welfare

Subject

Bank of England

Category

Text

eBook-No.

24739

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24739

Release Date

March 2, 2008

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.BIDWELL'S TRAVELS. — FROM
2. 2.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. — Editorial New York Herald. — Referring to a Whole Page.
3. 3.CONTENTS. — NOTE TO THE PUBLIC
4. 4.CHAPTER I. — HAD THERE BEEN WISDOM THERE?
5. 5.CHAPTER II. — "'TWAS EVER THUS." OF COURSE IT WAS.
6. 6.CHAPTER III. — A LICENSED PIRATE.
7. 7.CHAPTER IV. — FOOLS STUMBLING ON FORTUNES. — TO CATHERINE TWEED. — JAMES KELSO,
8. 8.CHAPTER V. — WHEN BOSS TWEED WAS NEW YORK'S OWNER AND JIM FISK, PROPRIETOR OF OUR JUDGES.
9. 9.CHAPTER VI. — CHEATED VISIONS AND VANISHED HOPES.
10. 10.CHAPTER VII. — GILDED SIRS WHO ARE NOT WISE.
11. 11.CHAPTER VIII. — THE MERRY SUMMER OVER AND NO HARVEST STORED. — TO ELIZABETH, The Beloved Wife, Pious and True. She Served God and Has Gone to Live with the Angels
12. 12.CHAPTER IX. — "WE HAVE ANOTHER JOB FOR YOU."
13. 13.CHAPTER X. — A NINETEENTH CENTURY PRODIGAL.
14. 14.CHAPTER XI. — "CRACK THE LAWYER'S VOICE THAT HE MAY NEVER MORE FALSE TITLES PLEAD, NOR SOUND HIS QUILLETS SHRILLY."
15. 15.CHAPTER XII. — RESTEZ ICI, MES ENFANTS.
16. 16.CHAPTER XIII. — WE TALK OF THE STARS AND DO THE OTHER THING.
17. 17.CHAPTER XIV. — I PLAY THE SILVER KING.
18. 18.CHAPTER XV. — PIRATICAL CRUISE IN TROPICAL SEAS.
19. 19.CHAPTER XVI. — "SHOW ME YOUR LETTERS OF CREDIT."
20. 20.CHAPTER XVII. — ONCE MORE WE SAIL THE SEAS OVER.
21. 21.CHAPTER XVIII. — LITTLE FISHES WRIGGLING THROUGH GREEN WAVES.
22. 22.CHAPTER XIX. — WITH NO REGRETS, WITH NO TORTURING REMORSE.
23. 23.CHAPTER XX. — DETAILS NECESSARY, IF TEDIOUS.
24. 24.CHAPTER XXI. — THE EGYPTIANS PASS OVER THE RED SEA AND THE HEBREWS ARE DROWNED THEREIN.
25. 25.CHAPTER XXII. — "ACCEPTED. LIONEL ROTHSCHILD."
26. 26.CHAPTER XXIII. — SHOWERS OF GOLD FALL—AND THEN?
27. 27.CHAPTER XXIV. — POINTS FOR JUSTICE TO PICK UP.
28. 28.CHAPTER XXV. — THE IRONY OF FATE.
29. 29.CHAPTER XXVI. — "EXCUSE ME, SIR, FOR QUESTIONING YOU."
30. 30.CHAPTER XXVII. — THE FLOWERS IN THE PRIMROSE WAY ARE SWEET.
31. 31.CHAPTER XXVIII. — FEAR SAYS "NO" TO HAPPINESS.
32. 32.CHAPTER XXIX. — I WATCH THE PYRENEES SINK IN THE SEA, THEN SAIL O'ER GREEN NEPTUNE'S BACK.
33. 33.CHAPTER XXX. — "HAPPINESS AND I SHAKE HANDS FOR A TIME." — AMAZING FRAUD UPON THE BANK OF ENGLAND! — MILLIONS LOST! — GREAT EXCITEMENT IN LONDON! — £5,000 REWARD FOR THE ARREST OF THE AMERICAN PERPETRATOR, F. A. WARREN.
34. 34.CHAPTER XXXI. — THE PHILISTINES ARE UPON THEE, SAMSON. — "CUBAN AFFAIRS—BIDWELL'S IMPRISONMENT.
35. 35.CHAPTER XXXII. — NIGHTLY IN MY DUNGEON THE MAGICIAN MEMORY WOULD UNROLL THAT SCENE.
36. 36.CHAPTER XXXIII. — SHARKS, SALT WATER ONES, AND OTHER THINGS.
37. 37.CHAPTER XXXIV. — ONE LOVELY JUNE MORNING INTO PLYMOUTH HARBOR WE SAIL.
38. 38.CHAPTER XXXV. — RUNNING THE GAUNTLET. — THE BANK FORGERIES.
39. 39.CHAPTER XXXVI. — "NOTHING LEFT US BUT A GRAVE, THAT SMALL MODEL OF THE BARREN EARTH," WITH DISHONOR FOR AN EPITAPH.
40. 40.CHAPTER XXXVII. — HENCEFORTH A LIGHT WAS TO STREAM THROUGH THE FLUTED GLASS OF MY WINDOW.
41. 41.CHAPTER XXXVIII. — WHAT, THESE TEDIOUS DETAILS AGAIN.
42. 42.CHAPTER XXXIX. — THE DAYS O' SUMMER MERRILY SPENT IN THE LAND OF THE HEATHER.
43. 43.CHAPTER XL. — WE WILL FERRY YOU OVER JORDAN THAT ROLLS BETWEEN.
44. 44.CHAPTER XLI.
45. 45.CHAPTER XLII. — MANY A MAN MORE DANGEROUS WRITES ALDERMAN AFTER HIS NAME.
46. 46.CHAPTER XLIII. — A BATTERED HULK STRANDED ON A SHORE TO WHICH NO TIDE RETURNS.
47. 47.CHAPTER XLIV. — I FIND THE FENIANS WITH ME IN THE TOILS.
48. 48.CHAPTER XLV. — IN MOOD AS LONELY, IN PLIGHT AS DESPERATE AS HIS.
49. 49.CHAPTER XLVI. — IF PAIN IS NOT AN EVIL, IT CERTAINLY IS A VERY GOOD IMITATION.
50. 50.CHAPTER XLVII. — HIS ROW BECOMES FILLED WITH VERY SHARP-EDGED STONES INDEED.
51. 51.CHAPTER XLVIII. — HE TELEGRAPHED THE NEWS TO MY WARDER, AND BARTON WENT ON HIS WAY REJOICING.
52. 52.CHAPTER XLIX. — I FLUSTER THE GREAT JUPITER OF MY LITTLE WORLD. — "AUSTIN BIDWELL." — PETITION.
53. 53.CHAPTER L. — IT WAS NIGHT; SILENCE AND GLOOM HAD SETTLED DOWN ON THE INMATES.

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