Show I I Lii Life of Edward Jward N Noyes s W Who Q Nearly Wrecked a an Empire J T pay to be a crook even HI if you are the greatest one in all the world I learned that the day dayI I starten for prison and I learned Jt ft ver ivery dY day during the twenty years ears I have hae starved and choked for r aIr ar monS murderers thIeves and or of ever class and kind The ex c is more than 80 years rid now Be Hes dapper more eo 10 than most ol old men Klon hos brIght far bright ht t r than mo moat t mail mort who wh hate hase lot lost the b beat t tars rears ars of their lives In pr n Hes liv livIng trig Ing an uprIght life UCe On he went t trace the race pace that kills an and 1 it WS 3 the ates t that made him the greatest rook the world has ever known Edwin No es once the friend o 0 Jim Fl Flake ke and Jay Gould and Tweed r nd others of their kind once called the most dangerous swindler with which great b ever had t to dent dea dentone one time friend of the Duke or of Norfolk a hundred princes and lords it ib oW a of Chicago Years ears ago Noyes m made de money like nature makes the lightning bolt ap aj out of nothing The Bank Baak or of 1 England alone c cashed hIs until he AV had bad beaten Jt It out of oo Today he Is satisfied with a pIttance nd Is tr to forget the r f elf and hIs three accomplices 1 por eOrge and Austin BIdwell and Geor c MacDonald Is the only one lei leithe If the notorious quartette in San Franci Francisco co n a comparativelY ih men man The both died in An I Butte Mont the death or of both II t ring within three hours hour hourA A long Jong time ago Edwin NO 5 was a good and bright country bo A who had an ambition to mike ke a ant 1111 lion fion dollar doUar Across the street greet from I th the home borne lived the bO boys nd iid not far Car away lived young Mae ft lId nid FortY years ears ago ngo every one ot of th thour our boys could repeat the lines of lead IMd leading 11 ing parts of the Shake Shakespearean pearean s ui uncover r for tor the preacher in tc Hc neighborhood things eel ovea the latter had bad not discovered in Bible They were Bc scholars all four tic them They spent their summers at atthe atthe the play pla their winters at their hooks books o es Is still a scholar or Of his speed spee tie he supplies only the conjunctions t the 1 are from the classics He Helie lie hE bears the stamp of the convict but p ou cannot Sf see It eVEn wl en he I Io o 0 point It out He ts is thin 8 as some ROm b arc but after aU all lie he 4 5 I more like a prosperous business man maii manI than anything else The Te pris m didn I br break ak his spirit the only thing that tha ever eer threatened to do that was til the death of th the three of his confederates He is sun still too much of an o to brood over what he brought upon It vas as his everlasting opU optimism intern that got 01 him Into trouble anti and andRe Re again ill that g t h him m out of it for it must be that all four out of the forgers U life e sentences they y were coic o 01 crImes Went to At these four boys Geor George ald was as really the bell sheep The where h he broke th wa way When he ent to work Ork in an of ofA I A Jica J in Wall street In New P York th others DIY foU wed aA when the I they began a brok rage bu buies and made a A proved to h lC the organizing mind He brilliant brilli t financier and it was as often orten sai said i lor I f him bun b by men of Jay Goulds stripe that had Bidwell Tt remained straight h he would have haq become became one or of the richest richet men Sn hl America But thE tide of Wait Vall m street es at thE feet of greedy greed m me strange things gs lying I the whon it f Before No Noye I the nad MacDonald it beo a Qt 1 hut tut HL C as 5 Wall Vall street looKS at ni Into keeping keepin wa as gl given n near nearly ly h It a quarter of a million dollars in H He a J young then heli byI his head was u Lull Of 01 l as is of meat it was wea Ite who to Austin Bid Bidell wen ell to the Kethe lie bonds to England and 1 selL MR them AR n four our were tired of I IVall Wall Vall street Tb They y could make mote in a a month tn In they I thai thUl In A year In NeW York The went to England md and b by In Jug with men who profit o of consequence tan honesty sold Bold the tho I i But tr or o this sort were too tame men like Noyes Noes the and It was then that No os and lila his business sense came tb their aid He broached J 1 JIS lila IS pl plan n telling eo he had a way to realize his ambition to become a millIonaire o es this his name n a word r of t ro a and completely complete l out outwItted l te d ii of at the v rId rIdS from Of f S J I l U esc l or of t 1 I Institutions in the world The plan was successful almost to to the very last lut and then fell only onh because of a slight accident J Made Fina ci Tremble The boldness of th tiui s scheme h mc the meg of the the careful carefulness ness noes of detail of execution is a marvel which the the orld has not forgotten In the oune oure Q thirty years car carThe The immense financial center the home of men n who ho had alm tit r d to tore e a dollar the ank which not be forced d iy Q a navy was robbed of a kIngs s ransom by four men who dropped the plow 1 for the pen only a f e years before i Mere boys for fun and i partly for business bankers rs the over st stand nd aghast young fellows smiled as tJI they thought of oC the 1 simplicity and e att bY hick it had been done I rheu Noyes had unfolded his plans I 01 replenishing their bank accounts his confederates were were but J e I leg Ing men ot of nerve and tel fel the they fell leU in with the plan The j proposition was to rub the Bank of i England b by exper experts by I outwitting witting the men Dlen whose wits had been undergoIng the process of sharp sharpening ening for or where the young Amer Icalla had scarcely we kS or of trainIng One night NoyeS George ail Au Austin Un I find and MacDonald sat in n a room in a London hotel and COl completed ar Lets go to n sr Belgium city had ad work rork it s Mae Mac Donald t tuNo S I uNo No replied No Notes s why t the timid Mae Mac Donald onald th re m l le less chance chanco of I detection The he banks L ii J t a at as wew we want nt was nent uTo To Berlin or ol Parl or St Peters burg JU i tad ld Zet enough mOll monay J WU Wilt quiet observation Good God GotI nt Vh t do you mean j to do doTo To rob the Dank Bank Q o E 3 land gland re replied re replied plied Noyes witha smile To ro educate his cO 1 to a 0 be hot lief that the trick could be turned re requIred required much ind tH persuasion n the of but at last It i WAS done and the party thre its whole holc soul into the scheme One Oue dl day one or oC the partY who was wa blesset ith a tongue and anel an honest b bearing into tile the Sr great at hank bank and himself as Frederick AUen Rc He said lie he was an American railroad cop tr tractor and was engaged in hi Russia and South America He said he desired to open an account vAth tn the I bank and produced itt in States currency which he be He Hc the bank at frequent nt Ii after that anti while tile com coin who had pooled their tev of dollars gathered up neg paper hee and aud jU took it to the bank for discount an and all for tIe the e of oC l the bank with the his bum ness transactions The ness carried on by the fake was legitimate but purely purel fOr tor t the e of makIng a financial tion The party part had an all told about t they kept Jept dver i so frequently that they see be I doing busine on a capital of at several millions S Austin U then started fi tour ot Europe Noyes ofes was left hi as Warrens secretary to the bills of exchange lIac on rf s I also left in London to forge toe tIle signa tures of oC the grout great bankers con on went to nearly aU aUthe the of f Europe and b bought l r e bills biUs of oC exchange s sOme me returnable t tonce once and some in thirty days The fIr fitt t of these was for and arld was J lb sued b by the at Paris Faris T is large draft was depo Noyes and was at once b by thu bank which of cou course found Jt it genuIne Oth r drafts from Crom Paris B Berlin rUn St Petersburg and Hamburg were also tie de posited AU were genuine Forged iUs For j positive he n as S cl clerk rk of lt Allen n hal had I th the full tull confidence of the officers of th 1 hank bank he set l cDonald to work eop Ing signatures fr from m bills oc S exchange MacDonald wasa vel vei in fellow and a r fe w weeks the thank batik had accumulated tIme bills of exchange o almOst 1 This Thi forgEd paper was all t made out ont with the deferred dates Tu appear genuine It kent up the purChase or of genuine exchange I aU all at an earl early date These The i genuine bills gave the bunk in the bog bogus s bills biUs which were filed away to await their maturity Mac Donalds work as L been s so that there was no b of do through un error enor hi the siglin tures had ve pd th the Q I In th the conduct orth Bank U f Tic bank accept d tl I of exchange as cash und anti permitted N es to draw bea heavily upon War Warren ren s a account Every day dar ent up to the bank and deposited l large drafts and at the same ume tUne 5 T out much money The scheme was working so wen well the men meu had so gained the confidence of the I b and the amount of mone money al aI already rend ready se secured was so enormous that l returned to lo London A plan was then laid to ship shin Ue the mone money to N w YorK for the men to return to a anti 4 eure the best legal talent to nt rn part of tb the in order to escape prosecution plan was hardly Ie less daring than the one to rob the bank but ev events so shaped themselves that it never was carrIed out full Noyes din draw opt the mone money He did his Pr part so well that te he ded in the bank of r This was as sent to New York safety deposit Y for safe keeping W Worked For Six W Weeks 5 Within six after the first bill o of exchange t e wa was deposited in the bank NO had drawn out the bulk bulk of this gr t fortune There still tilI remaIned to tIla l of Warren Torrell about To clays a s before beCore the quartet was to leae London No Noyes es went to in the bank drew out and at the same sam t several bogus bills On One or of e Ue tte forged si signature of de it a J on banker and it was comPlete I o that it wa was not dated This f a matter of lIlt the part of MacDonald but the thInking it had bad been n a of the London banker and not to inconvenience the s secretary crear pC if 50 s valuable a depositor laid the bill biB aSide T Later it was Wal sent to the bank banker forged signature appeared upon it to with a request to fill In the date It carne back by br special messenger r word Ie he brought stunned of the flank Bank or of En England land un mediately all i the bills or bf exchange been bein counted as cash were t l n from the vaults aults A thousand verC sent to an all parts of Eu and the answers told that nil all t the blUs were the loss was figured 4 up there was a wild lId scene In Ue private offices or of the batik bank Tile instItution had been mulcted out o 10 and anel th there re was then i recovering it trIte officers of th the bank however No es i 1 es o nil d r oL c cn cre nob that the they had been found out The next d Y Noyes went aam again to the bank to draw raw out He intended leaving on for fear of creating suspicion if he het attempted to It all aId cloSe the account Ignorant of t tie e disclosure Noyes walked Into the ali was tilled with officers he would ha have YO ileen Ont or oC the J The four foul of t the aft believed that once the they lied Ute the country countr the they would be safe afe for eor they did not be l th bank ban k o Would publish th their ir JosS bali or or fk to catch them fearing that te ruin would immediately the e of th loss I But last return to the bank was his g AS A as he en entered tereci he yas tyas seized 1 An angry mob and threatened to kill him When he was t th the str streets ts to jail a little later laier tens of f thousands of people him The wildest rumors of wholesale ruin were afloat One was that a party of Arner Amer leans had tripp t d every bank In Lon Lea Leadon don of ever every dollar was that the Bank ot of England W was r wrecked Another was that even ie go soy was robbed of more than J LiRe a flash fins 1 the news of the enormous rob robbery erv spread around the world The excitement in all corn com commercial mercial People watched for or the d banks to sink at t on once to ruin ot banking houses were forced to Sus d hen tIle the lost con de i l in them The London stock was not open opened and a perfect over the entire kin t Would Not Turn Evidence S When n No wa l I ded in jail he hevar var given an n opportunitY to turn his Hbert liberty and h large Tew reward rd beside ThIS lie he re refused refused fused to do He was d and son sen t to un In time the entire plot was dug uP up the PInk PInkertons Pinkertons ertons recovering the which iad been to New York and evOn the Dank Bank of England reco red nil but which the gu g had spent in riotous living It too took a long IonS time to capture the shrewd Austin Bidwell who laden wIth wealth hastened to St Sf Peters Petersburg Petersburg burg Fr Frn rp there he hc tIed Jea to South America The Pinkertons tracked hint hIm ove over a great at part of the globe Iob arid and finally John C n ii Pinkerton tie de tient C l in arm J biB and hot nt CU WJ n f cr tl the arrol I and succeeded in escaping lie He hid uk Pit o othe the island of Cuba or thirty da days s but was captured The Tue Bank of oC England sent out a special ial ship to tak takes him buck back o iDS land When hen reached Noyes had already been sent t for lire life Bidwell le received life fl t tu Th The other two to were also Cap p 1 a and d given life Ufe sentences It took twenty yea or of hard and tn work to get these men out at f prison The American of St James In in their behalf Tt The e Duke DuIe pt of Norfolk gave his aid id and Ia sister worked for the freedom of alt all four men f 0 fIn In the course of their liveS the four foU young men lived They gam gambled bled and spent thousands the ra and fina prInces Their ambitions Were greater than themselves and while poss or of shrewdness tact and they and went to to re nt r ean |