Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison

In 1873 Austin Bidwell and his accomplices defrauded the Bank of England of about £100,000 with forged bills, were caught and sentenced to life. Bidwell's memoir tells the story of the fraud, the chase across the Atlantic and his long years in British prisons. H3 IMPLEMENTATION NOTE FIX→ currently tagged Travel Writing; re-tag True Crime