Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-10-11

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Mr.. F. A. Warren would ever come back
to say so.
Day after day went by, and Mac and
George hung around London reading
the accounts of the affair and of the ey
animation of Noyes before the lord
mayor.
They had communicated with him
through his solicitor, and he sent them
word to leave England at once. In the
meantime they had been sending away
the cash, and so intrenched were they
in the belief that by no possible chance
could their names become mixed up i'll
the affair that in every instance but two
they sent the money or bonds to Amer
lea in their right names.
In the meantime the bank very wisely
sent cable to their legal agent, Clar,
ence A. Seward, in New York, asking
him to set the American detective force
on the alert. He was q man of the world
and understood quite we'll what sort OF
men then ruled at police headquarters
So he sent at once for Robert Pinkerton
aud gave him entire charge of the
American side of the line. Eventually
they unearthed the whole plot, secured
the evidence that convicted US and re-
covered the greater part of the money.
The first step taken by the private in
quiry men was to have the detectives at
headquarters led to believe that they
had the case entirely in their own hands
and to strengthen this Pinkerton had Il
lawyer 60 to headquarters every day to
consult with Irving.
After the continental raid, on our re
turn to London, we sent Irving s3, 900 III
greenbacks in a registered letter, but III
order to have a hold on our three honest
friends at headquarters in case of any
possible treachery in the future we put
the money in the envelope in the pres
ence of a magistrate and had his clerk
register them and make it part of the
court record. The envelope was simply
addressed, james Irving, Esq, 500
Mulberry street, New York, " and OF
course the officials in London supposed
it a private address
When we returned from Rio, we sent
another 5000, 81 900 each for Irving,
Stanley and White, and took the same
precautions
Soon after the foods Of money coming
to us in London Mac sent $4,000 to
Irving in another registered letter with
out any precautions whatever. Irving &
Go. did not know what game we were
playing, but were very happy over the
dividends past and to come. But when
they read. the cable dispatches in the
press about the bank forgeries their bliss
was ecstatic. Each in fancy saw himself
decked out in a magnificent diamond
pin and ring spinning along Harlem
lane behind q particularly fast pair in a
stylish rig This was their day vision
At night each saw himself in certain re
sorts ordering unlimited bottles or see.
ing New York by gaslight at the rate OF
800 minute and the Britishers paying
for it all. But the lawyers and the Pink
ertons between them played Irving and
headquarters for fools and knaves. Day
after day one Of the lawyers visited Mul'
berry street, and being tutored by Pink
erton gave points to Irving, who, with
his two chums, never suspected the game
being played on them.
But as I have got somewhat ahead OF
events in London will return there
and very briefly narrate what was tax
ing place there. Nearly every day Noyes
was brought before the lord mayor anu
officially examined but, acting under
advice of his lawyer, he was strictly
noncommittal The detectives and otfi
cials were convinced he knew all about
it.
In searching Noyes the English police
had found his garments were made by
a certain London tailor who had several
establishments. They brought the fore.
men and statesmen down to see him, and
none could identify him, but the detect
ives went over the ground again and
discovered that they had missed one
branch store This was the one Noyes
had patronized. They remembered him
as a customer who had, when ordering
garments, given the name of Bedford
This in itself was bad point against
Noyes, and they wanted very much to
make him talk, and had they been per
mitted to adopt vigorous American
methods they might have succeeded.
A salesman remembered seeing Noyes,
or Bedford, one day walking in Mayfair
with a gentleman who really was Mac,
of whom he gave good description,
and, taking the clerk, the detective
started out to make house to house in
vestigation. Now, Mayfair, the first
house they entered, was the residence
of famous London doctor Of the name
of Payson Hewett, and Mac had been Il
patient of his. But Hewett knew alb
solutely nothing about him save only
his name and the address he gave
Westminster Palace hotel The detect
but us Mac had never been guest they
could learn nothing. Still they had
cause for rejoicing. Here was Noyes
giving a fictitious name to tailor ami
i'll company with an elegantly dressed
American, who gave fictitious address
to his surgeon. And they were well sat
istied that whenever the matter was dug
out it would be found that Mac had a
hand in the business Payson Hewett
stated that Mac said he was medical
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