The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-01-16
CHAPTER VII.

CHAPTER VII.
shall try to condense into a single
chapter the narrative of events in Lon
don from the time Of my departure I'M
til the day some months later when our
scheme was exploded and all took to
fight when Noyes was arrested.
left for Paris on Monday. On
Wednesday Noyes went to the bank and
drew out all the money to my credit ex-
cept $500. The same day he went to
Birmingham and mailed lot No. Of
home manufactured bills, representing
$4,000.
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 to my credit by ~ 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 to make the test. They had
filled out two Warren checks.
Noyes went on ahead, the others fol-
lowing.
Nodding good day to the cashier, he
asked for $4,000 in gold and the 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
DDS were fallible.
The next morning Noyes went to Jay
Cooke & Co. and ordered $4,000 in
United States bonds, giving check for
them. The same afternoon he went to
Birmingham and mailed another letter,
this one containing e15,OOO in bills,
and later drew $4,000 in gold from the
bank. On Monday he went after the
bonds, and the $75, 900 was handed over
to him without question. The whole
operation was repetition of these tao
tics, but with an ever increasing volume
in the amounts of the bills.
On some days the mail brought to the
bank letters with bills for 100000,
sometimes for more, sometimes for less.
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..
+. A. Warren in exchange for its gold.
In London the boys talked Of spend
ing Christmas at home, but the agree
ment to stay-and it prevailed-was
that, since the money came in so
easily and in such amounts, it was q
pity to run away from it. Then, again,
by obtaining an enormous sum and put
ting it in place Of absolute security,
the bank would be glad to compromise
the matter in consideration of receiving
a million or two back again.
So they spent a 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. I was away in tropic is
lands leading an idle life with my bride
amid the cocoanut and palm trees. Mac
and George had never appeared in the
transaction, and, as for Noyes, not a
soul in all America knew he was in Eu-
rope, and in all Europe only three o.
four people had seen him and knew him
as representing Warren.
The business was finished. All three,
laden with money, were going to leave
England, leaving - bank to slumber
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 to
whom could anything be traced?
So in council they had decided to be
content with the enormous amount they
had. The last batch Of bills was in the
mail. Only one day more, and the strain
On the nerves would he over. That day
Noyes bought bonds and drew cash for
more than 100000. At 8 O'Clock they
sat down to lunch, their last in London,
and then went direct to Macs apart
1eNsS II JAMES His;ssS
To be cOntinued)