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11
  “the best managed hotel” Worth’s Confession, p. 10.

12
  “which was greatly frequented” ibid., p. 9.

13
  “He felt sure it was one” ibid., p. 11.

14
  “found in the letter box at” Note written by J. M. Worrall, Letter from NEW YORK to Messrs. Agnew, Dec. 15, 1876, AA.

15
  “Gentlemen: We beg to inform you” ibid. Note that this letter as well as the previous letter (signed “Edward Chattrell”) both refer to the “advertisement” resulting from the theft, a peculiar expression which strongly suggests the same writer.

16
  “New York, Letter received”
Times
, Jan. 2, 1877.

17
  “a longer piece of the upper” New York to Messrs. Agnew, Jan. 22, 1877, AA.

18
  “in order to facilitate matters” New York to Messrs. Agnew & Son, March 6, 1877, AA.

19
  “The Picture is over here” ibid.

20
  “New York. Am waiting to hear from you”
Times
, March 26, 1877.

21
  “the penalties for the crime” NEW YORK to Agnew’s, May 22, 1877, AA.

22
  “I have vainly” NEW YORK to Agnew’s, May ?, 1877.

23
  “NEW YORK, No danger to you”
Times
, May 31, 1877.

24
  “Finding that it was impossible” NEW YORK to Agnew’s, Aug. 8, 1877, AA.

25
  “I really cannot suggest” NEW YORK to Agnew’s, Aug. 21, 1877, AA.

26
  “It seemed evident that he was not”
New York Herald
, July 18, 1897.

27
  “a
fin de siècle
scoundrel”
New York Sun
, July 26, 1893.

28
  “a white elephant” Worth’s Confession, p. 5.

29
  “Feasting his eyes on” Lloyd, p. 2.

FOURTEEN

  
1
  “perfected herself in the arts”
New York World
, March 21, 1894.

  
2
  “baptized in the local church”
Historia de familias Cubanas
, Francisco Xavier de Santa Cruz y Mallen, Vol III (Havana, 1940). See also Arzobispado de la Habana, Sección de Dispensas de Amonestaciones, Legajo 36, Numero 106.

  
3
  “when he heard that his father-in-law”
New York Herald
, Aug. 25, 1899.

  
4
  “Every transaction in which” ibid.

  
5
  “proved veritable gold mines” ibid.

  
6
  slave trade Document #175, PA.

  
7
  “one of the wealthiest”
New York Herald
, Aug. 25, 1899.

  
8
  “The Terrys owned houses” Bender and Altschul, p. 23.

  
9
  “with which he went into”
New York Herald
, Aug. 25, 1899.

10
  “distinguished for his business ability” ibid.

11
  “Young Terry was infatuated” Lyons, p. 46.

12
  “She was pretty and fascinating”
New York World
, March 21, 1894.

13
  “His conduct as a prisoner” Eldridge and Watts, p. 54.

14
  “insulting postal card”
Illustrated Police News
, Sept. 22, 1888.

15
  “stating that the Manhattan Bank” John Cornish to George Bangs, Boston, Nov. 23, 1886, Document #197, PA.

16
  “his ill-gotten gains soon” Eldridge and Watts, p. 54.

17
  “fingers so sensitive” John Cornish to George Bangs, Boston, Nov. 23, 1886, Document #197, PA.

18
  “while pennyweighting” William to Robert Pinkerton, Feb. 12, 1902, PA, p. 3.

19
  was arrested and sent
Illustrated Police News
, Sept. 22, 1888.

20
  “greatly to the consternation”
New York World
, March 21, 1894.

21
  “exceedingly happy marriage” Lyons, p. 46.

22
  “who had grown up” William to Robert Pinkerton, Feb. 12, 1902, PA, p. 3.

23
  “permitted Kate’s daughters” Bender and Altschul, p. 23.

24
  “Returning from a shopping tour”
New York Times
, June 15, 1888.

25
  “the tone of which indicated”
New York World
, March 21, 1894.

26
  “She wrote a reply” ibid.

27
  “sitting smoking and drinking”
New York Times
, June 15, 1888.

28
  “Mrs. Terry, as soon as she entered” ibid.

29
  “in the course of which” ibid.

30
  “complaining that Mrs. Terry” ibid.

31
  “a person of bad character” ibid.

32
  “a similar cross-examination” ibid.

33
  “Her marriage to Bullard” ibid.

34
  “The court experience”
New York World
, March 21, 1894.

35
  “afterwards went South”
New York Times
, May 7, 1891.

FIFTEEN

  
1
  “being the perpetrator”
Adam Worth
, p. 11.

  
2
  “While in prison he sent” ibid.

  
3
  “could not control it” ibid.

  
4
  “Gradually certain facts leaked out” ibid., p. 10.

  
5
  “back at the old stand” John Shore to William Pinkerton, in Horan, p. 308.

  
6
  “He became such a ‘bugaboo’ ”
Adam Worth
, p. 11.

  
7
  “to get even with him” Worth’s Confession, p. 4.

  
8
  “Shore was in the habit” ibid.

  
9
  “keeping a brothel” ibid.

10
  “called the Rising Sun” ibid.

11
  “He said they had gotten” ibid.

12
  “he had got tired of waiting” ibid.

13
  “had Supt. Shore treated him” ibid., pp. 3–4.

14
  “I told him I thought” ibid., pp. 4–5.

15
  “would never have amounted” ibid., p. 3.

16
  “This robbery was perpetrated”
Adam Worth
, p. 16.

17
  “From time to time” ibid., p. 10.

18
  “for a bagatelle” Horan, p. 305.

19
  “not out of the vaults” Worth’s Confession, p. 12.

20
  “refused to have anything” ibid.

21
  “Phillips demanded that the picture”
Adam Worth
, p. 10.

22
  “suspecting treachery” ibid.

23
  “a fighting man” Worth’s Confession, p. 13.

24
  “commenced to abuse him” ibid.

25
  “He jumped up and struck” ibid.

26
  “pulled off” ibid.

27
  “denounced him for striking” ibid.

28
  “looked to him like Junka” ibid.

29
  “they never met again”
Adam Worth
, p. 11.

SIXTEEN

  
1
  “a combination of the artist” Bank of England statement, March 11, 1880, quoted in Horan, p. 308.

  
2
  “be on his guard when dealing” Worth’s Confession, p. 12.

  
3
  “On account of his tendency” ibid.

  
4
  “He might have lived” Eldridge and Watts, p. 48.

  
5
  “came to London” Worth’s Confession, p. 3.

  
6
  “number of dynamite explosions”
Adam Worth
, p. 12.

  
7
  “the very best of the lot” Quoted in Horan, p. 306.

  
8
  “he feared to leave it” Lyons, p. 53.

  
9
  “thirty or so paintings” Jules Verne,
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
(1870), Chap. 11.

10
  “I’m not what you would” Verne, Chap. 10.

11
  “partly on business, partly on pleasure” Chief Inspector J. G. Littlechild,
Cassel’s Sunday Journal
, Nov. 22, 1893.

12
  “a noted English crook”
Adam Worth
, p. 13.

13
  “crystallized romance” Cited in Stefan Kanfer,
The Last Empire: De Beers, Diamonds, and the World
(New York, 1993), p. 30.

14
  “Rabbis, rebels, rogues” Cited in Kanfer, p. 34.

15
  “large ostrich feathers” Kanfer, p. 37.

16
  “As there were no restrictions”
Standard Encyclopedia of Southern Africa
(Pretoria, 1971), Vol. III, p. 487. See: “Crimes, Non-violent.” “He opened an office” Horan, p. 308.

17
  “While looking about”
Adam Worth
, p. 13.

18
  “looked the situation over” ibid.

19
  “an American sea captain” ibid. capture the driver ibid., p. 14.

20
  “the horses were thrown” ibid.

21
  “created quite a sensation” ibid.

22
  “game fellow” William to Robert Pinkerton, Feb. 12, 1902, p. 4, PA.

23
  “had weakened and got scared off” Worth’s Confession, p. 6.

24
  “decided to remain to have”
Adam Worth
, p. 14.

25
  “£200 immediately” Worth’s Confession, p. 6.

26
  “His intention” ibid.

27
  “an old gentleman”
Adam Worth
, p. 14.

28
  “took three parcels out” ibid.

29
  “pleaded that it was of” ibid.

30
  “there was a deep stream” ibid.

31
  “The next night” ibid.

32
  “The swag” Worth’s Confession, p. 6.

33
  “he had been embezzling”
Adam Worth
, p. 15.

34
  “experts from England” Littlechild.

35
  “Knowing that anyone who”
Adam Worth
, p. 15.

36
  “seeing the thing in the papers” Worth’s Confession, p. 6.

37
  “some article which he had” ibid.

38
  “more for the” ibid.

39
  “He said that John” ibid., p. 13.

40
  “clever, educated fellow”
Adam Worth
, p. 15.

41
  “married to a lady” Shinburn, p. 8.

42
  “By putting their goods”
Adam Worth
, p. 15.

43
  “If I had ever possessed” Dilnot, p. 657.

44
  “It has been ‘discovered’ ”
Times
, April 10, 1901, p. 4.

45
  “I believe I have found” Anonymous letter, May 5, 1884, AA.

46
  “while a gang of men were engaged”
Pall Mall Gazette
, undated clipping, AA.

47
  “seen the thief” Anonymous, undated letter in AA.

48
  “custodians of this article” Meiklejohn & Son to G. Lewis, Feb. 16, 1887, AA.

49
  “racing frauds” Worth’s Confession, p. 4.

50
  “Negotiations can be opened”
New York Herald
, cited in Esterow, p. 193.

51
  “New York.—If the present owner” ibid.

52
  “What his precise”
New York Sun
, May 29, Vol. XLV, no. 271, otherwise undated, AA.

SEVENTEEN

  
1
  “as the first gentleman” Harrison, p. 34.

  
2
  “a pair of the finest” Lloyd, p. 2.

  
3
  “even his heavy losses at” Lyons, p. 56.

  
4
  “a very fine house” Lloyd, p. 2.

  
5
  “About five o’clock on the” C. McCluer Stevens, p. 40.