ly
clear, and you will enforce this great truth on the platform. _In the
world of crime success is failure._ Good luck to you."

Rev. Dr. Edward Beecher

writes; "I recommend this book to the friends of morality."

Office of Street's Insurance Agency, Hartford, Conn.

"MR. GEORGE BIDWELL, _Dear Sir_--A clergyman consulted with me regarding
his son, who had fallen into bad associations, taken part in many small
thefts, and seemed hardened against shame or dread of exposure. I
believe the mean, dangerous boy has become a man by reading your book."
Yours very truly,

F. F. STREET, Hartford, Conn.

Hartford Daily Times.

"This autobiography is a story of thrilling interest."

CONTENTS.

A NEW YORK HERALD EDITORIAL.

CHAPTER I.

Brooklyn Public Schools in the Sixties--Old. No. 13--Parents Suited
to the Golden Age--A Curious Preparation for the Battle of
Life--Knew that Brutus Slew Caesar--George the Third Was a
Bad Fellow Who Got a Tea Kettle Thrown at His Head In
Boston Harbor--My Model Home Library--An Innocent Leaves
Home. 19

CHAPTER II.

In a Broker's Office--A Nice Old Gentleman--Situation in Wall
Street--An Up-to-Date Young Man--Visions of Wealth--Speculations--Wall
Street in the Sixties--The Hon. John Morrissey,
ex-Pugilist--His Famous Gambling House--I Try a Game of
Faro--Midnight Banquets--I Have Entered the Primrose
Way. 24

CHAPTER III.

Pleasure Before Business--Result of That Method--On Financial
Rocks--James, Otherwise "Jimmy," Irving--He Was a Model
Chief of Detectives--Police Headquarters, 300 Mulberry Street,
in the Early Seventies--He Takes Me for a Drive out Harlem
Lane--A Trio of Detectives--They Make a Startling Proposition--A
$10,000 Temptation--Mental Conflicts--I Dare Not Be Poor--C'est
le Premier Pas Qui Coute. 28

CHAPTER IV.

History of the Famous Lord Bond Steal--"On the Office"--Three
Sneaks Stumble on a Fortune--A $1,250,000 Tin Box--Dazed
Crooks--What to Do with Their White Elephant--Excitement
at Police Headquarters--Bullard et al.--A Violin Virtuoso--Superintendent
of Police Kelso Presents a $500 Silver Punch
Bowl to the Daughter of Boss Tweed--Paid for with Stolen
Cash.