Show AND HILL FREED A cable dispatch from london an bounces that the english government has baa released from prison geo mcdonnell and edward noyes hill hilf the two men who were connected with the bid bidwell well brothers in the forgeries in 1872 by which the bank ot of england was swindled out of half a million pounds sterling on condition that they should leave the country it is said that the two men are now on their way to america goo geo bidwell austin bidwell bid well goo geo mcdonnell mc donnell and edward noyes hill were sentenced in 1878 to life imprisonment it was lo in 1872 that geo aeo bidwell discovered a way in which the bank of england could easily be swindled he found it was customary for the bank back to allow customers to draw against bills of acceptances drawn by responsible institutions without investigating into the genuineness of the bills he opened an account at the western branch of the Bank ot of england in the name dame of horton fc co he told col francis the manager that horton co were about to engage in the build ing of pullman sleeping oars cars he the abe in secured some bills of exchange i number of prominent banking houses including the and atter after making forged copies of them pawed passed then them through the bank and drew out the money after the firm had thus established good credit it began to paw forged bills made payable to F A warren aus aue tin bidwell impersonated warren in this way the gang drew out about before a failure to date one of the bills jed to the discovery of the fraud all the men concerned in the scheme were finally captured convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment george bidwell was wae released from woking boking prison on ticket of leave iu in 1 1887 on the representation by the governor dr ulrie that he would otherwise die in a year or two henrietta C mott his hie sister was u unsparing ng in her efforts to secure the release of the other men she and her brother enlisted the sympathy ot of a number of prominent persons la in the country and in england and finally their arguments prevailed upon home secretary matthews to release austin bid well on february 13 1892 on september 18 13 1891 the home secretary had bad commuted lite his sentence to twenty years austin bidwell Bidwel Kc Is saving the life of a convict was the chief cause of his re lease since then both Bi bidwell dwelle and their sister have worked steadily to bring about the release of mcdonnell and hill most moat of the stolen money was re covered by the police at the different delacee places where it had been left for safe bate keeping but it la in generally understood that they unable to find about |