Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison. English-only reading by default; switch among English, Chinese, and Spanish, or compare languages side by side.
This chapter develops the memoir’s account of Chapter IX. “WE HAVE ANOTHER JOB FOR YOU.“, connecting personal narrative with the financial, legal, and prison-world setting of the period. The chapter’s opening perspective is: About every second day I called on Murpurgo & Weissweller in Frankfort, and talked over matters, and easily saw that everything would go right. All that was necessary was to produce the bonds, and they would hand over the cash.
This chapter is for readers following Bidwell’s memoir chapter by chapter, especially the section titled “Chapter IX. "WE HAVE ANOTHER JOB FOR YOU.".” It is most useful for readers interested in financial crime history, nineteenth-century banking culture, criminal justice, prison memoir, and the social setting of the period.
Read “Chapter IX. "WE HAVE ANOTHER JOB FOR YOU."” as a historical memoir rather than guidance. The banking procedures, legal assumptions, public reputation, social judgments, travel conditions, and prison practices described belong to Bidwell’s nineteenth-century setting and may not match modern institutions.