Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude
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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
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.
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CONTENTS.
NOTE TO THE PUBLIC
CHAPTER I.
HAD THERE BEEN WISDOM THERE?
CHAPTER II.
"'TWAS EVER THUS." OF COURSE IT WAS.
CHAPTER III.
A LICENSED PIRATE.
CHAPTER IV.
FOOLS STUMBLING ON FORTUNES.
TO CATHERINE TWEED.
JAMES KELSO,
TO CATHERINE TWEED.
JAMES KELSO,
CHAPTER V.
WHEN BOSS TWEED WAS NEW YORK'S OWNER AND JIM FISK, PROPRIETOR OF OUR JUDGES.
CHAPTER VI.
CHEATED VISIONS AND VANISHED HOPES.
CHAPTER VII.
GILDED SIRS WHO ARE NOT WISE.
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
TO ELIZABETH, The Beloved Wife, Pious and True. She Served God and Has Gone to Live with the Angels
CHAPTER IX.
"WE HAVE ANOTHER JOB FOR YOU."
CHAPTER X.
A NINETEENTH CENTURY PRODIGAL.
CHAPTER XI.
"CRACK THE LAWYER'S VOICE THAT HE MAY NEVER MORE FALSE TITLES PLEAD, NOR SOUND HIS QUILLETS SHRILLY."
CHAPTER XII.
RESTEZ ICI, MES ENFANTS.
CHAPTER XIII.
WE TALK OF THE STARS AND DO THE OTHER THING.
CHAPTER XIV.
I PLAY THE SILVER KING.
CHAPTER XV.
PIRATICAL CRUISE IN TROPICAL SEAS.
CHAPTER XVI.
"SHOW ME YOUR LETTERS OF CREDIT."
CHAPTER XVII.
ONCE MORE WE SAIL THE SEAS OVER.
CHAPTER XVIII.
LITTLE FISHES WRIGGLING THROUGH GREEN WAVES.
CHAPTER XIX.
WITH NO REGRETS, WITH NO TORTURING REMORSE.
CHAPTER XX.
DETAILS NECESSARY, IF TEDIOUS.
CHAPTER XXI.
THE EGYPTIANS PASS OVER THE RED SEA AND THE HEBREWS ARE DROWNED THEREIN.
CHAPTER XXII.
"ACCEPTED. LIONEL ROTHSCHILD."
CHAPTER XXIII.
SHOWERS OF GOLD FALL—AND THEN?
CHAPTER XXIV.
POINTS FOR JUSTICE TO PICK UP.
CHAPTER XXV.
THE IRONY OF FATE.
CHAPTER XXVI.
"EXCUSE ME, SIR, FOR QUESTIONING YOU."
CHAPTER XXVII.
THE FLOWERS IN THE PRIMROSE WAY ARE SWEET.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
FEAR SAYS "NO" TO HAPPINESS.
CHAPTER XXIX.
I WATCH THE PYRENEES SINK IN THE SEA, THEN SAIL O'ER GREEN NEPTUNE'S BACK.
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.
CHAPTER XXXI.
THE PHILISTINES ARE UPON THEE, SAMSON.
"CUBAN AFFAIRS—BIDWELL'S IMPRISONMENT.
"CUBAN AFFAIRS—BIDWELL'S IMPRISONMENT.
CHAPTER XXXII.
NIGHTLY IN MY DUNGEON THE MAGICIAN MEMORY WOULD UNROLL THAT SCENE.
CHAPTER XXXIII.
SHARKS, SALT WATER ONES, AND OTHER THINGS.
CHAPTER XXXIV.
ONE LOVELY JUNE MORNING INTO PLYMOUTH HARBOR WE SAIL.
CHAPTER XXXV.
RUNNING THE GAUNTLET.
THE BANK FORGERIES.
CHAPTER XXXVI.
"NOTHING LEFT US BUT A GRAVE, THAT SMALL MODEL OF THE BARREN EARTH," WITH DISHONOR FOR AN EPITAPH.
CHAPTER XXXVII.
HENCEFORTH A LIGHT WAS TO STREAM THROUGH THE FLUTED GLASS OF MY WINDOW.
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
WHAT, THESE TEDIOUS DETAILS AGAIN.
CHAPTER XXXIX.
THE DAYS O' SUMMER MERRILY SPENT IN THE LAND OF THE HEATHER.
CHAPTER XL.
WE WILL FERRY YOU OVER JORDAN THAT ROLLS BETWEEN.
CHAPTER XLI.
CHAPTER XLII.
MANY A MAN MORE DANGEROUS WRITES ALDERMAN AFTER HIS NAME.
CHAPTER XLIII.
A BATTERED HULK STRANDED ON A SHORE TO WHICH NO TIDE RETURNS.
CHAPTER XLIV.
I FIND THE FENIANS WITH ME IN THE TOILS.
CHAPTER XLV.
IN MOOD AS LONELY, IN PLIGHT AS DESPERATE AS HIS.
CHAPTER XLVI.
IF PAIN IS NOT AN EVIL, IT CERTAINLY IS A VERY GOOD IMITATION.
CHAPTER XLVII.
HIS ROW BECOMES FILLED WITH VERY SHARP-EDGED STONES INDEED.
CHAPTER XLVIII.
HE TELEGRAPHED THE NEWS TO MY WARDER, AND BARTON WENT ON HIS WAY REJOICING.
CHAPTER XLIX.
I FLUSTER THE GREAT JUPITER OF MY LITTLE WORLD.
"AUSTIN BIDWELL."
PETITION.
PETITION.
CHAPTER L.
IT WAS NIGHT; SILENCE AND GLOOM HAD SETTLED DOWN ON THE INMATES.
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