The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-01-30
WALL STREETTO NEWGhT6
Austin BidWe1l'S Thrilling Tale
of Life via the Prim-
rose Way.
The Tweed Ring of New York
His First Educator in
Crime.

Crime.
(Copyrigh ted by Charles Austin Bates.)
CONTINUED.
Iney rushed at him like pack OF
wolves. Had that been bank parlor in
festive Arizona they would not have en-
dured the delay incidental to procuring
a rope, but would have ended it and
him by gunnery at short range. Noyes
could not be shaken. His nerve never
failed. He said a gentleman had hired
him as clerk, and that was all he
knew. He had left him at the Stock Ex-
change If they would let him go, he
would try to find him and bring him
around to the bank. J. Bull is gullible,
but not so much so as to swallow that
yarn.
So they held tightly to him. and
committee of indignant Britons escorted
him to Newgate.
Mac and George were without and
were stricken with CONSERVATION, for
minutes observation of the gathering
crowd and the rushing into the bank of
excited people convinced them some
thing unusual was in the wind, and
they knew Noyes must be in deadly
peril Mac rushed into the bank in hope
to warn or to be Of help. Everything
there was in confusion. Unobserved in
the excitement, he made his way into
the parlor and there saw what made
his heart stand still-Noyes surrounded
by an angry crowd Of officials. With
great presence of mind he pushed
through toward Noyes, who saw him
and knew he was there to help if he
had chance to bolt from his captors,
but there was no chance. AS they were
about starting for Newgate Mac slipped
outside and told George what had be-
fallen Noyes and discussed the pos
sibility Of rescue when on the way to
Newgate with him. While they were
waiting in the entrance Noyes came out
in custody. He saw and recognized
them. They joined in the crowd and
were within arms reach of him every
rod of the short distance to Newgate,
but the crowd was packed so tight that
one could hardly move, and rush for
escape was hopeless. Arrived at New
gate, Mac, in his desperation, was en-
tering with the escort when George
pulled him away, and as they got out Of
the crowd they heard the newsboys cry
ing, "Great forgery on the Bank Of
England by an American-e1o, 900, 900
obtained!''
All this time the 500, 900 drawn that
morning was in stout bag behind the
counter at Garraway's.
Little did the barmaids dream of the
treasure that was in the bag. When Mac
went for it, one of the barmaids asked
him if he had heard of the great bank
robbery. He drove to St. James place,
and soon George joined him there.
That night the cable flashed the news
Of the forgery over the world, dwelling
particularly upon the fact that the per-
petrator was an American. The next
morning the London press overfowed.
Every prominent paper gave leader in
the editorial column, and when the
weeklies and monthlies came out they
followed suit. These editorials make
now to us who were on the inside anus
ing reading. They were full of Philis-
tine talk and amazement, and generally
conceded that Noyes was an innocent
dupe, and all more or less doubted if his
principal, the manager, and mysterious
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 ex-
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 in
the affair that in every instance but two
they sent the money or bonds to Amer
lea Id their right names.
In the meantime the bank yerv wisely
sent a 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 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
and 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 nart Of the money.