Forging his own chains : the wonderful life story of George Bidwell : entering business as honest a young man as ever left a Puritan home : a merchant : his commercial misfortunes : thrilling adventures in Europe and America : the extraordinary events, circumstances, and influences which, at 40 years of age, landed him in Newgate--the memorable trial at the Old Bailey for the conception and execution of the so-called £1,000,000 fraud on the famous Bank of England in 1873.