Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-08-27

shall try to condcnse into single
chapter tho narrative of events in Lon
don from the time Of my departure uu-
til the day some months later when our
scheme was exploded and all took to
flight when Noycs was arrested.
l left for Paris ON Monday. On
Wednesday Noyes went to the bank and
drew out all the money to my credit ex-
cept e3OO Tho same day he went to
Birmingham and mailed lot No. of
home manufactured bills, representing
$4,000.
Tho next "a hours We're an anxious
time for my friends. The bills would be
delivered by the early mail ON Thursday,
and IL all went right the proceeds would
BIO placed TO my credit by l2 o'clock, and
the bills themselves would be slowed
away in the vaults until they wero due
some months ahoad, George and Mac
waited with the greatest anxiety until
O'Clock, They had everything packed
for instant flight when at that hour they
sailed ont Of Macs lodging and started
for the bank to make the test. They had
filled out two Warren checks
Noyes went ON ahead, tho others fol-
lowing
Nodding good day to the cashier, he
asked for 1000 in gold and tho re-
maindcr in notes, which were handed
him ut 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
DDS were fallible
Tho next morning Noyes went to Jay
Cooke q Co. and ordered SIS, 600 in
United States bonds, giving a check for
them. Tho same afternoon he went TO
Birmingham and mailed another letter,
this ono containing $4,000 in bills,
and later drew e2, 600 in gold from the
bank. On Monday he went after the
bonds, aud the SIS 900 was handed over
TO him without question. The whole
operation was q repetition OF these tao
tics, but with m over increasing volume
in the amounts Of tho bills.
On some days themail brought to the
bank letters with bills for 500, 900,
sometimes for more, sometimes for loss.
So November and December passed
away, and the bank continued day by
day and week by week laying away in
its vaults the worthless collateral of Mr..
Il. A. Warren exchange for its gold.
In London the boys talked Of spend
ing Christmas at home, but the agree
ment TO stay-and it preyailed-was
that, since tho money came in 80
easily and in such amounts, il was u
pity 20 run away from It, Then, again,
by obtaining nm enormous sum and put
ting it in "a place Of absolute security,
the bank would be glad to compromise
tho matter in consideration of receiving
q million or two buck again.
So they spent pretty merry and an
exceedingly expensive Christmas in
London, but lato in February they de.
terminod to pack up and leave.
Everything smiled upon them. The
gold and bonds they had meant for
tunes for all, / was away In tropio is
lands leading an idle lifewith my bride
amid the cocoanut and palm trees. Mao
and George had never appeared In the
transaction, and, as for Noyes, not
soul in all America knew no was in Eu-
rope, and in All Europe only three or
Tour people had seen him and knew him
as representing Warren.
Tho business was finished. All three,
laden with money, We're going to leave
England, leaving the bank to slumber
ON for weeks until tho first bills became
duo before there could be discovery.
By that time tho cash would have been
safely slowed, and how or whcre or to
whom conld anything DO traced?
So in council they had decided 10 be
cop;ont with the enormous amount they
had. The last batch Of bills was in the
mail Only one day more, and tho strain
on tho nerves would he over. That day
Moves bought bonds and drow cash for
moro than 600, 900. At 0 O'Clock they
sat down 70 lunch, their last in London,
and then went direct to Macs apart.
ments in James place.
All the material for making fraudu-
lent bills was there, and what could DO
brraed was thrown into the CRATE, ana
the rest into the Thames from London
bridge Tho three We're there. and they
were happy, They had engineered ri.
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