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

Wall Street to London Prison
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
Had There Been Wisdom There?
"'twas Ever Thus." of Course It Was.
Fools Stumbling on Fortunes.
To Catherine Tweed.
James Kelso,
When Boss Tweed Was New York's Owner and Jim Fisk, Proprietor of Our Judges.
Cheated Visions and Vanished Hopes.
Gilded Sirs Who Are Not Wise.
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
"we Have Another Job for You."
A Nineteenth Century Prodigal.
"crack the Lawyer's Voice That He May Never More False Titles Plead, nor Sound His Quillets Shrilly."
Restez Ici, Mes Enfants.
We Talk of the Stars and Do the Other Thing.
I Play the Silver King.
Piratical Cruise in Tropical Seas.
"show Me Your Letters of Credit."
Once More We Sail the Seas Over.
Little Fishes Wriggling Through Green Waves.
With No Regrets, with No Torturing Remorse.
Details Necessary, If Tedious.
The Egyptians Pass Over the Red Sea and the Hebrews Are Drowned Therein.
"accepted. Lionel Rothschild."
Showers of Gold Fall—And Then?
Points for Justice to Pick Up.
The Irony of Fate.
"excuse Me, Sir, for Questioning You."
The Flowers in the Primrose Way Are Sweet.
Fear Says "no" to Happiness.
I Watch the Pyrenees Sink in the Sea, Then Sail O'er Green Neptune's Back.
"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.
The Philistines Are upon Thee, Samson.
"cuban Affairs—Bidwell's Imprisonment.
Nightly in My Dungeon the Magician Memory Would Unroll That Scene.
Sharks, Salt Water Ones, and Other Things.
One Lovely June Morning into Plymouth Harbor We Sail.
Running the Gauntlet.
The Bank Forgeries.
"nothing Left Us but a Grave, That Small Model of the Barren Earth," with Dishonor for an Epitaph.
Henceforth a Light Was to Stream Through the Fluted Glass of My Window.
What, These Tedious Details Again.
The Days O' Summer Merrily Spent in the Land of the Heather.
We Will Ferry You Over Jordan That Rolls Between.
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Many a Man More Dangerous Writes Alderman After His Name.
A Battered Hulk Stranded on a Shore to Which No Tide Returns.
I Find the Fenians with Me in the Toils.
In Mood as Lonely, in Plight as Desperate as His.
If Pain Is Not an Evil, It Certainly Is a Very Good Imitation.
His Row Becomes Filled with Very Sharp-Edged Stones Indeed.
He Telegraphed the News to My Warder, and Barton Went on His Way Rejoicing.
I Fluster the Great Jupiter of My Little World.
"austin Bidwell."
Petition.
It Was Night; Silence and Gloom Had Settled Down on the Inmates.

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

To Catherine Tweed.

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