Our rival, the rascal : a faithful portrayal of the conflict between the criminals of this age and the defenders of society, the police . fromWilkes through Burns. All this complication and secrecy was probably required toreduce the risks of arrest or betrayal which would, otherwise,be incurred by the principals. The cats-paws fled to the con-tinent and thence to this country as soon as the forged draftswere cashed and their shares paid by the middleman, whoturned over the balance for division to Wilkes and chief partners remained in London apparently uncon-cerned for a week longer
Our rival, the rascal : a faithful portrayal of the conflict between the criminals of this age and the defenders of society, the police . fromWilkes through Burns. All this complication and secrecy was probably required toreduce the risks of arrest or betrayal which would, otherwise,be incurred by the principals. The cats-paws fled to the con-tinent and thence to this country as soon as the forged draftswere cashed and their shares paid by the middleman, whoturned over the balance for division to Wilkes and chief partners remained in London apparently uncon-cerned for a week longer and then went to Paris where Burnstook fine lodgings while Wilkes returned to this countryleisurely by way of Havre. For years the wary principals in the Wilkes gang succeededin avoiding conviction, if not arrest, and, during their career,swindled bankers, brokers and other business men to anenormous extent, in the aggregate, with their counterfeit banknotes, bonds, income certificates, bills of exchange and forgeddrafts. Engle, Becker and Brockway were the chief oper-ators in the production of the counterfeits with graving tools.
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