
Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison: Fifteen Years in Solitude
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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 THATCHAPTER I. HAD THERE BEEN WISDOM THERE?We lived in South Brooklyn, near to old No. ...
Chapters (568)
- 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.
- Editorial New York Herald.
- Referring to a Whole Page.
- 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,
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- CHAPTER L.
- IT WAS NIGHT; SILENCE AND GLOOM HAD SETTLED DOWN ON THE INMATES.
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