Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-12-14

carriage and team and his tiger we're
the talk of the metropolis. He gave a
series of recherche dinners, to partake
Of which the members ofthe haat ton
We'd with each other. The great event
was a dinner to the prominent Ameri-
cans resident in London, which
eclipsed his initial efforts. He was
present at the christening Of the child
Of a prominent citizen of London. He
asked permission to make a present to
the little stranger. This request was
acceded to graciously by the parents,
charmed with the ~condescensibn Of
the distinguished American. The
present took the shape of a cross, gilt
tering with diamonds, worth $500.
This brought him into notice as the
wealthy American tourist and the
competition for his acquaintance be-
came still more animated. Having
manipulated his cards in this direc-
ton and established a position in So
ciety, Marsh, like his pals in Paris,
took precautions against surprise in
another direction. He suddenly be-
came very anxious to make the ac-
quaintanee of those famous Scotland
Yard detectives, whose fame was
Worldwide This was easily affected
through the auspicesof his host of the
Queens Hotel. Then followed a grand
dinner to the head of the department
and his officers. Aseparate introduce
ton to each of the Hnsuspecting Hawk
shaws followed, and their physiogno-
mics were fixed in the camera of
Marsh's recollection for emergencies.
He next turned up in Dublin in a SCI
ries of sensational extravagances. On
one occasion he hired a jaunting car,
and, armed with a bag of pence, drove
around town, a sort of Lord Bountiful,
distributing his largesse to a struggling
mob of beggars, who thronged around
him the whole way. In this way, and by
other means of dissipation bis share
Of the Boylston Bank funds was soon
gone. He returned to New York a
poor man. Soon afterward he was
offered a share in the robbery of the
bank at Wellsboro, Tioga county, and
at Athens, Bradford county, and par
ticipated in both. A go-between, as
is usual in such cases, was dispatched
to Philadelphia to negotiate the sale Of
the government bonds taken from the
strong boxes of those banks. 1t is
charged that these securities were
placed upon the market through the
agency of a prominent railroad official.
There is a further allegation that for
ten years past bonds acquired in the
same way were negotiated through the
same channel. Marsh is now in the
Eastern ~penitentiary serving outa long
term for his connection in the robbery
of the aforementioned Pennsylvania
banks.
Worth, the last of the famous
quartette, appears to be the only mem
Der of the gang who has managed to
keep his person out Of a prison cell,
He, too, lett for Europe, but with
greater prudence than the others, ex.
cepting his Paris experience. AL.
though hunted by detectives, he has
lived comparatively u~ndisturbed, ever
making two or three transatlantic trip;
without molestation. Shinburne wa,
among the first naturally sought by
the New York detectives when tn,
Manhattan Savings Bank was plum.
dered recently, but they did not get
him. Notwithstanding all their enor
nous ill-gotten wealth, the surviving
members Of the gang, excepting
Worth, are all poor"