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6
  “down the steps leading to the basement” ibid.

  
7
  “the office was plunged” ibid.

  
8
  “Worth, the moment the gas failed” ibid.

  
9
  “had the effect of causing”
Midland Daily Telegraph
, July 25, 1893, AA.

10
  “I made an average” Lloyd, p. 2.

11
  “If ever a man in this” Guerin, p. 76.

12
  “he loved … to pit his skill” C. McCluer Stevens, p. 38.

13
  “Raymond loved his work” ibid.

14
  “From year to year the safemakers” Shinburn,
Safe Burglary
, p. 3, PA.

15
  “the burglar kept pace” ibid.

16
  “one of the cleverest framers-up” Guerin, p. 297.

17
  “It is an odd thing” Oscar Wilde,
The Picture of Dorian Gray
, Chap. 18.

18
  “a mob of all round crooks” I. W. Lees to William Pinkerton, San Francisco, Feb. 19, 1886, PA.

19
  “It was a clean job” ibid.

20
  “He is still dead” ibid.

21
  “grew worse than ever” Guerin, p. 48.

22
  “slugged one of” ibid.

23
  “It was surely the irony” ibid.

24
  “dispute with the baggage man” I. W. Lees to William Pinkerton, San Francisco, Feb. 19, 1886, PA.

25
  “twisted the lock off” Worth’s Confession, p. 6. widow who lived with Lyons, p. 58.

26
  “He became, in time” ibid.

27
  “She was a beautiful woman” ibid.

28
  “one of the little girls” Worth’s Confession, p. 8.

29
  “devotedly attached” William to Robert Pinkerton, Feb. 12, 1902, PA.

30
  “standing in fine grounds”
The Gainsborough Duchess
, p. 28.

31
  “under the roof of a summer” Lloyd, p. 3.

32
  “he hid it in the chartroom” ibid.

33
  “the proceeds from the big” Worth’s Confession, p. 9.

34
  “he made a great bluff” ibid.

35
  “scared them out of” ibid.

36
  “after his liberation”
Adam Worth
, p. 13.

37
  “would have given him” Worth’s Confession, p. 9.

38
  “several thousand dollars’ worth” ibid.

39
  “At a small cost of a few” Horan, p. 311.

40
  “one occasion he walked out” C. McCluer Stevens, p. 43.

41
  “Sophie Lyons was a” Guerin, p. 119.

42
  “I was walking down” ibid., p. 120.

43
  “noted American bank sneak” William Pinkerton to George Bangs, Chicago, April 27, 1913, PA.

44
  “We went to have a drink” Guerin, p. 120.

45
  “that dinner might have” ibid.

46
  “I didn’t say anything” ibid., p. 121.

47
  “Thieves came to him” Kingston, pp. 264–5.

48
  “Adam Worth”
New York World
, Sept. 2, 1888. enmity between Worth’s Confession, p. 6.

49
  “A friend of mine who” Dilnot, p. 662.

50
  “who has been known to me” John Shore to William Pinkerton, May 21, 1888, PA.

51
  “have fitted up the place” ibid.

EIGHTEEN

  
1
  “It was nip and tuck” Shinburn,
Safe Burglary
, p. 2.

  
2
  “The guns leave the Big Man’s” Quoted in Morn, p. 121.

  
3
  “the Pinkertons did more” Guerin, p. 301.

  
4
  “the practice of” Horan, p. 356.

  
5
  “principally constituted” Morn, p. 148.

  
6
  “There are few” Cited in Horan, p. 389.

  
7
  “instinctive altruism” Morn, p. 138.

  
8
  “didn’t like” Horan, p. 369.

  
9
  “Crooks Club” Morn, p. 131.

10
  “the Canadian government looks” ibid., p. 121.

11
  “he had looked about this country” Worth’s Confession, p. 9.

12
  “plays sad havoc” Guerin, p. 301.

13
  “fidgety over the” John Shore to Pinkerton’s, Aug. 4, 1888, Document #744, PA.

14
  “for uttering spurious”
Police News
, Aug. 10, 1895.

15
  “The urge to speculate” Gallagher, p. 72.

16
  “gambling and extortion” ibid.

17
  “with resources sadly depleted” ibid.

18
  “Max and Charlie [sic] after”
New York Herald
, July 18, 1897.

19
  “tired of supporting his old” ibid.

20
  “hoped to realize at least” Gallagher, p. 75.

21
  “They planned to rob the bank” ibid., p. 74.

22
  “To save time rather than” ibid., p. 76.

23
  “fired a pistol at one” ibid.

24
  “one of the experts requested” ibid.

25
  “identified them as notorious”
New York Herald
, July 18, 1897.

26
  “to reunite with the” Bullard,
Prince of Burglars
, Document #176, PA.

NINETEEN

  
1
  “Worth was living”
Adam Worth
, p. 11.

  
2
  “One would have thought” ibid., p. 16.

  
3
  “the boy would be sent” Worth’s Confession, p. 8.

  
4
  “one of the most”
New York Jeweler’s Review
, March 16, 1889.

  
5
  “make a tour of the continent” ibid.

  
6
  “Alonzo, in spite of the fact” Worth’s Confession, p. 9.

  
7
  “jumped on the seat” ibid.

  
8
  “in less time than this”
Meuse
, Oct. 6, 1892.

  
9
  “Alonzo was to be on the lookout” Worth’s Confession, p. 8.

10
  “got off the van” ibid.

11
  “Monsieur Decorty, a railway employee”
Meuse
, Oct. 6, 1892.

12
  “seeing the” ibid.

13
  “he too set off after”
Gazette de Liège
, Oct. 6, 1892.

14
  “The fugitive already had” ibid.

15
  “hastened to rid himself”
Meuse
, Oct. 6, 1892.

16
  “two blocks away” Worth’s Confession, p. 8.

17
  “an audacious coup”
Gazette de Liège
, Oct. 6, 1892.

18
  “he was dressed in gentlemanly”
Soir
, Oct. 7, 1892.

19
  “conventional attire”
Meuse
, Oct. 6, 1892.

20
  “the extremely solid ‘Pince Monsieur’ ” ibid.

21
  “There is evidence to suggest”
Gazette de Liège
, Oct. 7, 1892.

22
  “If you knew the truth”
Gazette de Liège
, March 21, 1893.

23
  “He refuses to disclose” ibid.

24
  “With the loyalty for which” Lyons, p. 59.

25
  “this individual had”
Meuse
, Oct. 6, 1892.

26
  “a million francs or $200,000” Worth’s Confession, p. 8.

27
  “valuable state papers” ibid.

28
  “The official value of the papers”
Meuse
, Oct. 6, 1892.

29
  “continued to maintain”
Gazzette de Liège
, Oct. 10, 1892.

30
  “This fellow speaks and writes” Belgian legal circular, Oct. 10, 1892, issued by Juge d’Instruction Théodore de Corswarem, Liège, p. 2, PA.

31
  “neither the police nor the detectives”
New York Herald
, July 18, 1897.

32
  “Interrogated on the subject”
Meuse
, Oct. 10, 1892.

33
  “Investigations have been made” ibid.

34
  “had got hold of the newspaper”
New York Herald
, July 18, 1897.

35
  “had never passed out of Worth’s hands” Shinburn, p. 6.

36
  “lives in extravagant style” ibid.

37
  “His policy is to deal” ibid.

38
  “known Worth, alias Raymond” ibid.

39
  “rather Jewish” ibid.

40
  “very fond of wearing” ibid.

41
  “It may be said with truth” ibid.

42
  “Shore blistered me” Worth’s Confession, p. 8.

43
  “he expected every day” ibid.

44
  “we were not called on” ibid.

45
  “To tell the truth he has changed” William Pinkerton to John Shore, Denver, Colorado, Nov. 3, 1892, PA.

46
  “I will write to the Judge” Robert Pinkerton to John Shore, misdated Oct. 1, 1892, PA.

47
  “I know what your institution” Worth’s Confession, p. 2.

48
  “a debt of gratitude” ibid.

TWENTY

  
1
  “Session of 20 and 21st March”
Gazette de Liège
, March 20, 1893.

  
2
  “Henry Raymond, a well known sporting”
World
, November 7, 1892.

  
3
  “the man Wirth”
Daily Telegraph
, March 22, 1893.

  
4
  “claimed to represent”
Adam Worth
, p. 17.

  
5
  “declined to have anything” ibid.

  
6
  “English authorities” ibid.

  
7
  “word from the” ibid.

  
8
  “admit to his own lawyer” ibid.

  
9
  “eager to see the defendant”
Gazette de Liège
, March 21, 1893.

10
  “lost much of his gentlemanly” ibid.

11
  “deprived of the magnificent whiskers”
Meuse
, March 21, 1893.

12
  “This is no longer the gentleman” ibid.

13
  The condensed account of Worth’s trial is translated from
La Gazette de Liège
, March 21, 1893. The
Gazette
’s reporter misheard Worth’s alias as “Rau,” thus, no doubt, further confusing matters.

TWENTY-ONE

  
1
  “had managed to curry”
Adam Worth
, pp. 17–18.

  
2
  “He was a constant give-away” Worth’s Confession, p. 2.

  
3
  “He was pigeon for the” ibid.

  
4
  “Of all the dirty” ibid.

  
5
  “There was nothing from” ibid.

  
6
  “never get over” ibid.

  
7
  “result sometime in his” ibid.

  
8
  “rumors reached Worth” Lyons, p. 59.

  
9
  “entertained the Kaiser”
The Gainsborough Duchess
, p. 26.

10
  “mind gave way under” Lyons, p. 60.

11
  “they grew to manhood” ibid.

12
  “very bitter” Worth’s Confession, p. 8.

13
  “would never have” ibid.

14
  “The prison treatment” ibid., p. 10.

15
  “from the inside” ibid.

16
  “When I fell down” ibid.

17
  “document furnished by”
New York Herald
, July 18, 1897.