Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1895-11-07
CHAPTER VII.


don from the time Of my departure M
Hl the day some months later when our
scheme was exploded and all took tc
fight when Moves was arrested.
left for Paris on Monday. On
Wednesday Noyes went 10 the bank and
drew out ali the money 70 my credit ex-
cept $500. The same day he Went tc
Birmingham and mailed lot No. / OF
home manufactured bills, representing
e8, 900.
The next "a hours were an anxious
time for my friends. The bills would be
delivered by the early mail on Thursday,
and if all went right the proceeds would
be placed 10 my credit by l 2 O'Clock, and
the bills themselves would be slowed
away in the vaults until they were due
some months ahead. George and Mac
waited with the greatest anxiety until
Q O'Clock. They had everything packed
for instant fight when at that hour they
sailed out of Macs lodging and started
for the bank 10 make the test. They had
Allied out two Warren checks
Noyes went on ahead, the others fol
lowing.
Nodding good day to the cashier, he
asked for CO, 900 in gold and tho re-
mainder IN notes, which were handed
him at once, and three very happy men
sat down that evening to dinner because
the days operations had conclusively
proved that the Bank Of England meth
ods were fallible.
The next morning Noyes went to Jay
Cooke & Co and ordered $40, 600 in
United States bonds, giving a check for
them. The same afternoon he went 70
Birmingham and mailed another letter,
this one containing $3.50 in bills,
and later drew 60, 900 in gold from the
bank. On Monday he went after the
bonds. and the S75 900 was handed over
to him without question. The whole
operation was a repetition Of these tao
tics, bat with an ever increasing volume
in the amounts Of the bills.
On some days the mail brought to the
bank letters with bills for 500, 900,
sometimes for more, sometimes for less.
So November and December passed
away, and the bank continued day by
day and week by week lnying away in
It's vaults the worthless collateral Of Mr..
f. A. Warren in exchange for its gold
In London the boys talked OF spend
ing Christmas at home, but the agree
ment 30 stay-and 1t prevailed-was
that, since the money came in 30
easily and in such amounts, 1t was q
pity TO run away from it. Then, again,
by obtaining an enormous sum and put
ting il in place Of absolute security,
tho bank would be glad 70 compromise
the matter in consideration Of receiving
a million or two back again.
30 they spent pretty merry and an
exceedingly expensive Christmas IN
London, but late in February they de
termined to pack up and leave.
Everything smiled upon them. The
gold and bonds they had meant for
tunes for all l was away in tropic Is
lands leading an idle life with my bride
amid tho cocoanut and palm trees. Mac
and George had never appeared In the
transaction, and, as for Noyes, not a
soul in all America knew be was in Eu-
rope, and in all Europe only three or
four people had seen him and knew him
us representing Warren.
The business was finished. All three,
laden with money, were going TO leave
England, leaving tho bank TO slumbe
ON for weeks until the first bills became
due before there could be discovery.
By that time the cash would have been
safely slowed. and how or where or 10
whom could anything be traced2
So In council they had decided to be
content with tho enormous amount they
had. Tho last batck of bills was in the
mail Only one day more. and the strain
on tho nerves would be over. That day
Noyes bought bonds and drew cash for
more than 100000. At 3 o'clock they
sat down 10 lunch. their last in London,
and then went direct 70 Macs apart
ments in James place.
All tho material for making fraudu-
lent bills WINS there. and what could be
burned was thrown into the CRATE. and
the rest into the Thames from London
bridge. The three were there and they
were happy. They had engineered a 81
gantic scheme, had struck for wealth
and won. The short cut to fortune in de-
hanoe Of fate had becn traversed, and
now they set about grateful task-that
OF getting themselves and thoir rich
argoey out Of England. Mac, being the
artist Of tho party, and having executed
the actual writing, drew tho sealed box
conts ming the unused bills up to the
fro and began throwing them in ono by
one. In doing so he occasionally would
throw some bill more elaborate than the
common run on tho floor beside his
chair. He had finished his task and took
from tho floor those no had thrown
there, looked at them for n moment,
then orumbling them together raised
his hand to throw them in the fire, but
as tho devil always forsakcs his friends
at the critical moment he stopped.
Smoothed out tho bills, and turning tc
the others said: boys, these are per
feet works Of art. 1t is pity 20 destroy
them" From our point Of view it was,
since 1t was only necessary to drop them
into the mail, and they would coin us
thousands. Then George said, "Suppose
we send them in. " The others said, "All
right, and our doom was sealed.
There were In tho lot 10 bills OF OK.
change for R20, 900. A date had been left
on oneof them They failed 10 notice
II Poor fools, we had sold ourselves
Was this an accidenti No. II was
Nemesis It was anything you want tc
call II, but IL was not an accident
80 letter was written, the bills,
with memorandum, iHclosod, the envelope
directed and stamped. nnd tho three
fools went 10 Birmingham, mailed the
letters, and then laughed over their suc.
ocsa In tho fight against society, folici-
tating themselves that they bad safely
traysrsed tho short out 10 fortune There
il no short cut by wTongdoing to fortune.
As that fatal letter clipped from their
fingers into the mailbox the last net oi
the deadly tragedy began. When IL end
cd, tho curtain fell upon US, desccnding
from the dock into the chill dungeons
Of Ncwgatc, never, 40 far IN the sentence
was concerned. TO emerge again.
On Tuesday morning tho letter with
the bills arrived at the bank. Follow
ing tho routine, they went TO the dis
count department. wers discounted and
placed TO my credit. As had IA balance
Of Gao, 900. when tho proceeds Of tbs
bills were added TO 1t 1t brought up the
whole 10 the handsome gum Of GAG, 600
Whom tho bills arrived Mt the bank.
strange thing occurred. Tho fatal omis
sion was made ON an acceptance OF BY
denstein &c Co., great banking firm IN
London. The discount clerk noticed the
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