The Napoleon of Crime (46 page)

11
  “an old man, broken down” ibid.

12
  “Those damned detectives” Quoted in James D. Horan,
The Pinkertons—The Detective Dynasty That Made History
(New York, 1967), p. 286. While Horan’s historical method is open to criticism, his chapter on Worth is invaluable. He had access, in the 1950s and 1960s, to a variety of sources either destroyed since (in the case of Scotland Yard) or lost (in the case of the Pinkerton’s archive).

13
  “All [the robbers] need do”
Boston Sunday Times
, Nov. 28, 1869, p. 1.

14
  “There must be” ibid.

15
  “an attack of apoplexy”
New York Times
, June 19, 1869.

16
  “always the true” ibid.

17
  “He was always”
Evening Mail
, June 18, 1869.

18
  “one of the brightest”
New York Telegram
, June 18, 1869.

19
  “he was a gentleman”
Evening Post
, June 18, 1869.

20
  “Contemporary opinion”
New York Times
, June 20, 1869.

21
  “sat with his family”
New York Times
, June 19, 1869.

22
  “paying a visit” Marilyn Bender and Selig Altschul,
The Chosen Instrument—Juan Trippe and Pan Am
(New York, 1982), p. 19.

23
  “She was an unusually” Lyons, p. 44.

24
  “Bullard and Raymond” ibid.

25
  “inclined to live fast”
Adam Worth
, p. 4.

26
  “The race for her favor” Lyons, p. 44.

27
  “to his credit” ibid., p. 45.

28
  “He looked around”
Adam Worth
, p. 4.

SIX

  
1
  “badness of the” Lady Amberly, mother of Bertrand Russell, quoted in Alistair Horne,
The Fall of Paris
(London, 1965), p. 17.

  
2
  “France is an astonishingly” ibid., p. 420.

  
3
  “bought up part of” ibid., p. 421.

  
4
  “palatial splendor”
Adam Worth
, p. 4.

  
5
  “which were, at that time” ibid.

  
6
  “Americans were cordially” ibid.

  
7
  “her beauty and” Document #172, PA.

  
8
  “the headquarters of” Address by William A. Pinkerton to the Annual Convention of the International Chiefs of Police, at Jamestown, Virginia, 1907. PA.

  
9
  “Mrs. Wells was a”
Adam Worth
, p. 4. affable John Cornish to George Bangs, Boston, Document #197, PA.

10
  “which the bar-tender” William to Robert Pinkerton, Feb. 12, 1902, p. 3, PA.

11
  “made two or three”
Adam Worth
, p. 4.

12
  “astonished by” ibid.

13
  “masquerading as a” Eldridge and Watts, p. 46.

14
  “a complete workshop” Account of the arrest of Max Shinburn, p. 4, PA.

15
  “one of the most” Eldridge and Watts, p. 46.

16
  “With the money” Arrest of Shinburn, PA, p. 2.

17
  “nobody cared to dispute” Eldridge and Watts, p. 48.

18
  “with an open” ibid.

19
  “overbearing Dutch pig” Worth’s Confession, p. 3.

20
  “I could name a hundred” Guerin, p. 301.

21
  “but one vice—forgery” Horan, p. 290.

22
  “the ablest professional” William to Robert Pinkerton, Feb. 12, 1902, p. 4, PA.

23
  “a great fellow for” Worth’s Confession, p. 7.

24
  “swell Americans who” Arrest of Shinburn, p. 2.

25
  “but Mr. Sanford” John Cornish to George Bangs, Boston, Document #197, PA.

26
  “In the gay French capital” Eldridge and Watts, p. 54.

27
  “waged a ceaseless war” Shuttleworth.

28
  “It was not unusual” ibid.

29
  “When Bill Pinkerton went” Guerin, p. 301.

30
  “We were rather troubled” Quoted in Horan, p. 293.

31
  “There was no intention” Worth’s Confession, p. 6.

32
  “nearly dropped dead” ibid., p. 7.

33
  “Old Vinegar went” ibid.

34
  “entrances were guarded” ibid.

35
  “Joe made the drop” ibid.

36
  “two well known American” Shuttleworth.

37
  “The respectable people” William to Robert Pinkerton, Feb. 12, 1902, p. 3, PA.

38
  “who insisted on the police” Harold M. Lloyd, “Confidences of American Frank,”
Boston Sunday Herald
, Oct. 7, 1934.

39
  “The robbery startled”
Adam Worth
, p. 5.

40
  “The place was finally” ibid.

41
  “The bar-tender was” William to Robert Pinkerton, Feb. 12, 1902, p. 3, PA.

42
  “Wells [Bullard] and others”
Adam Worth
, p. 5.

43
  “never again be a success” Worth’s Confession, p. 7.

44
  “English betting man” William to Robert Pinkerton, Feb. 12, 1902, p. 3, PA.

45
  “the ruction which” Worth’s Confession, p. 7.

46
  “Afterwards when we” ibid.

47
  “The history of Britain” T. B. Macaulay,
Critical essays
(1835), 3, 279, cited in Houghton, p. 39.

48
  “We remove mountains” Carlyle, “Signs of the Times” (1829),
Essays
, 2, 60, cited in Houghton, p. 41.

SEVEN

  
1
  “then in the bloom” Allan Cunningham, 1829, chapter on Gainsborough, cited in
Pictures in the Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan
. “but her dazzling beauty” ibid.

  
2
  “Drawing his wet pencil” ibid.

  
3
  “giving promise even” Mrs. Arthur Bell (N. D’Anvers),
Thomas Gainsborough, A Record of His Life
(London, 1897), p. 63.

  
4
  “greenish” William T. Whitley,
Artists and Their Friends in England, 1700–1799
(London, 1928), Vol. I, p. 199; also Geoffrey Williamson,
The Ingenious Mr. Gainsborough
(New York, 1972), p. 171.

  
5
  “More portraits exist”
Magazine of Art
, June 1901, article by W. Roberts, “Portraits of the two Duchesses of Devonshire,” p. 369.

  
6
  “spoke of it as”
The Gainsborough Duchess
, p. 15.

  
7
  “one of which Lady Spencer” See W. T. Whitley,
Thomas Gainsborough
(London, 1915).

  
8
  “abandon friends as soon” Letter from Dr. Sjaak Zonneveld to Peter Day, archivist, Aug. 28, 1994, CHA.

  
9
  “effects were dispersed” Ellis Waterhouse,
Portraits by Thomas Gainsborough
, Walpole Society, Vol. XXXIII, No. 3 (1953), p. 28.

10
  “very wooden legs” Henry James,
The Old Masters at Burlington House
(1877), cited in Rupert Hart-Davis,
The Painter’s Eye
(Wisconsin, 1989), p. 127.

11
  “It was then hanging”
Times
, April 11, 1901, p. 6.

12
  “Sir, I am obliged”
The Gainsborough Duchess
, p. 13.

13
  “never had the slightest”
Times
, April 11, 1901, p. 6.

14
  “The picture remained” ibid.

15
  “Mr Bentley was the intimate” ibid.

16
  “haberdasher, hosier and mercer”
Dictionary of National Biography
, p. 716.

17
  “had an intense dislike” ibid., p. 717.

18
  “the painting which”
The Gainsborough Duchess
, p. 14.

19
  “There was” Robert Kempt,
Pencil and Palette
(London, 1881), p. 97.

20
  “Though a great lover”
The Gainsborough Duchess
, p. 14.

21
  “watercolour drawings, porcelain”
Dictionary of National Biography
, p. 717.

EIGHT

  
1
  “now delights” John Shore to William Pinkerton, May 21, 1888, PA.

  
2
  “a big lunk head” Worth’s Confession, p. 4.

  
3
  “Bullard, alias Wells” William to Robert Pinkerton, Feb. 12, 1902, PA.

  
4
  “tennis courts, a shooting gallery” Lloyd.

  
5
  for £600 a year
The Gainsborough Duchess
, p. 25; also
London Evening News
, April 9, 1901, p. 2.

  
6
  “international clearing house” Lyons, p. 46.

  
7
  “the most remarkable”
Adam Worth
, preface and p. 6.

  
8
  “Crimes in every corner” Lyons, p. 47.

  
9
  “One robbery followed”
Adam Worth
, p. 6.

10
  “the West End was full” Guerin, p. 302.

11
  “There were some men” Worth’s Confession, p. 13.

12
  “An unwilling photograph”
Adam Worth
, facing p. 6.

13
  “a crew of twenty-five”
London Evening News
, April 9, 1901, p. 2.

14
  “This last exploit” Lyons, p. 56.

15
  “Inspector Shore agrees with me” Horan, p. 295.

16
  “To be respectable” Herbert Spencer, Exeter Hall lectures, 3 (1847–48), 364, cited in Houghton, p. 184.

17
  “Now that a man” John Ruskin,
Pre-Raphaelitism
(1815), cited in Houghton, p. 187.

18
  “expected to be honest” J.C.F. Harrison,
Late Victorian Britain, 1875–90
(London, 1990), p. 42.

19
  “It is only shallow people” Oscar Wilde,
The Picture of Dorian Gray
(1891), Chap. 2.

20
  “costly furniture, bric-a-brac” Lyons, p. 45.

21
  “he was a man” George Dilnot,
Master Minds of Crime
, p. 659, AA.

22
  “lived like a prince” Lyons, p. 56.

23
  “He became a student” ibid., p. 58.

24
  “ten racehorses”
London Evening News
, April 9, 1901, p. 2.

25
  “he employed a staff” ibid.

26
  “When he had money”
Adam Worth
, p. 23.

27
  “Anybody with whom” ibid.

28
  “throughout his career” Milton Esterow,
The Art Stealers
(New York, London, 1960), p. 184.

29
  “It’s just as easy” Charles Kingston,
Remarkable Rogues
(London, 1921), p. 260.

30
  “If you want to get on” Horan, p. 302.

31
  “They pretended to be” Houghton, p. 395.

32
  “I hope you have not”
The Importance of Being Earnest
, Act II.

33
  “A man with brains”
Adam Worth
, p. 23.

34
  “there was always a way” ibid.

35
  “It was his almost unbroken” Lyons, p. 47.

36
  “could thank God Almighty” Worth’s Confession, p. 5.

37
  “What he says is true” ibid.

38
  “How much flattery” ibid., p. 7.

39
  “to relentlessly hunt” Horan, p. 362.

40
  “with an unyielding” ibid., p. 190.

41
  “uppermost in their” ibid., p. 403.

42
  “a good mixer” Frank Morn,
The Eye That Never Sleeps
(Indiana, 1982), p. 131.