48. A.H. Alexander (as Earl of Stirling), Two Letters Addressed to the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Denman (Paris, J. Smith, 1845), p. 1.
49. Ibid., p. 2.
Chapter 4: The Sting
1. Anon., The Times Testimonial. Report of the Trial of the Action Bogle versus Lawson (London, John Hatchard and Son, 1842), p. 8.
2. International Genealogical Index.
3. ‘The Times Testimonial’, The Times, 18 August 1841, p. 2.
4. Anon., The Times Testimonial, p. 9.
5. Ibid., p. 10.
6. Ibid., p. 11.
7. ‘Extraordinary and Extensive Forgery and Swindling Conspiracy on the Continent’, The Times, 26 May 1840, p. 6.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Anon., The Times Testimonial, p. 20.
12. ‘Bogle v. Lawson’, The Times,18 August 1841, p. 2.
13. Ibid., p. 3.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid.
16. ‘Bogle v. Lawson’, The Times,17 August 1841, p. 7.
17. Anon., The Times Archives, Bogle Case, Litigation 2.
18. Anon., The Times Testimonial, p. 30.
19. ‘Bogle v. Lawson’, The Times,17 August 1841, p. 5.
20. ‘Bogle v. Lawson’, The Times,18 August 1841, p. 4.
21. Ibid.
22. International Genealogical Index.
23. Ibid.
24. Anon., The Times Testimonial, p. 33.
25. Ibid.
Chapter 5: The Bank with No Scruples
1. Anon., The Annual Register, or a View of the History and Politics of the Year 1856 (London, F. & J. Rivington, 1857), Chronicle, p. 33.
2. ‘The Late John Sadleir esq.’, Cork Daily Reporter, as quoted in Clonmel Chronicle, 20 February 1856, p. 2.
3. ‘Death of Mr Sadleir M.P.’, Freeman’s Journal, 19 February 1856, p. 2.
4. ‘Suicide of Mr John Sadleir M.P.’, Morning Advertiser, 18 February 1856, p. 2.
5. ‘Death of Mr Sadleir M.P.’, Morning Chronicle, 19 February 1856, p. 7.
6. ‘Suicide of Mr John Sadleir M.P.’
7. ‘The Tipperary Joint Stock Bank’, Kilkenny Monitor, 26 February 1856, p. 3.
8. ‘The Inquest on Mr Sadleir, M.P.’,The Times, 20 February 1856, p. 10.
9. The Times, 10 March 1856, p. 8.
10. Anon., The Annual Register.
11. ‘London and County Joint Stock Bank’, Tipperary Free Press, 19 February 1856, p. 4.
12. ‘The Late Mr Sadleir M.P.’, Waterford Chronicle, 1 March 1856, p. 1.
13. Anon., The Annual Register.
14. ‘The Late Mr Sadleir M.P.’, Clonmel Chronicle, 27 February 1856, p. 4.
15. ‘The Tipperary Joint Stock Bank’, Freeman’s Journal, 29 April 1856, p. 4.
16. British Library, Aberdeen papers, Add. MS. 43248, f. 194.
17. Ibid., f. 193.
18. ‘Breaking the Pledge’, The Nation, 1 January 1853, p. 291.
19. A.M. Sullivan, New Ireland (London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1877), vol. 1, p. 377.
20. ‘The Late Mr Sadleir M.P.’, Carlow Sentinel, 23 February 1856, p. 3.
21. ‘The Tipperary Joint Stock Bank’, Freeman’s Journal, 29 April 1856, p. 4.
22. Ibid.
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid.
25. ‘The Tipperary Joint Stock Bank’, Clonmel Chronicle, 30 April 1856, p. 2.
26. ‘The Late John Sadleir’, Tipperary Free Press, 9 November 1858, p. 3.
27. Ibid.
28. Irish Chancery Reports (Dublin, Hodges Smith and Co, 1861), vol. 11, p. 8.
29. Irish Chancery Reports (Dublin, Hodges Smith and Co., 1857), vol. 5, p. 199.
30. ‘Winding up of the Tipperary Bank’, Freeman’s Journal, 5 March 1856, p. 2.
31. ‘The Adjourned Inquest on Mr Sadleir M.P.’, The Times, 26 February 1856, p. 12.
32. Ibid.
33. ‘The Late Mr Sadleir’, Clonmel Chronicle, 27 February 1856, p. 2.
34. Ibid.
35. Ibid.
36. ‘The Tipperary Bank’, Carlow Sentinel, 1 March 1856, p. 3.
37. ‘The Tipperary Joint Stock Bank’, The Times, 3 March 1856, p. 7.
38. ‘Felo de Se’, The Nation, 23 February 1856, p. 409.
39. Sullivan, New Ireland, pp. 378–9.
40. ‘London and County Bank’, Tipperary Free Press, 4 April 1856, p. 1.
41. Anon., The Annual Register.
Chapter 6: A Racing Certainty
1. ‘The Convict William Kurr’, Police Guardian, 24 August 1877, p. 4.
2. George Dilnot (ed.), The Trial of the Detectives (London, Geoffrey Bles, 1928), p. 16.
3. Detective Inspector Andrew Lansdowne, A Life’s Reminiscences of Scotland Yard (London, The Leadenhall Press Ltd, 1893), p.11.
4. Belton Cobb, Critical Years at the Yard – the Career of Frederick Williamson of the Detective Department and the CID (London, Faber and Faber, 1956), p. 120.
5. Dilnot, Trial of the Detectives, p. 231.
6. Ibid., p. 23.
7. Ibid., p. 26.
8. Ibid., p. 28.
9. ‘Police’, The Times, 8 December 1876, p. 11.
10. Ibid.
11. Dilnot, Trial of the Detectives, p. 29.
12. George Dilnot, The Story of Scotland Yard (London, Geoffrey Bles, 1926), p. 237.
13. Dilnot, Trial of the Detectives, p. 95.
14. Ibid., p. 96.
15. ‘Charge against Detectives’, The Times, 3 August 1877, p. 11.
16. Dilnot, Trial of the Detectives, p. 31.
17. ‘The Detectives and Mr Froggatt’,The Times, 26 October 1877, p. 11.
18. Ibid.
19. Dilnot, Trial of the Detectives, p. 32.
20. Ibid.
21. ‘Frauds and Aggravated Misdemeanour’, Police Gazette, 13 October 1876, p. 2.
22. Dilnot, Trial of the Detectives, p. 103.
23. Ibid., p. 37.
24. ‘The Detectives and Mr Froggatt’,The Times, 14 November 1877, p. 11.
25. Dilnot, Trial of the Detectives, p. 38.
26. ‘The Charge of Conspiracy against Detective Officers’, The Times, 20 July 1877, p. 12.
27. TNA: PRO HO, 144/21/60045, piece 6.
28. J.G. Littlechild, The Reminiscences of Chief Inspector Littlechild (London, The Leadenhall Press, 1894), p. 53.
29. Dilnot, Trial of the Detectives, p. 47.
30. A.W. Basset, The Scotland Yard Scandal and Other Stories of Crime (London, Austin Rogers and Co., 1928), p. 14.
31. Ibid., p. 18.
32. Ex-Chief Inspector John Meiklejohn, Real Life Detective Stories (London, John Dicks Press, 1912), p. 130.
33. ‘Forger Benson Must Go’, New York Herald, 15 May 1888, p. 10.
Chapter 7: The Grappler
1. Ernest Terah Hooley, Confessions (London, Simpkin Marshall Hamilton Kent and Co., 1924), p. 8.
2. Ibid., p. 22.
3. These and other estimates of Hooley’s personal finances come from his memoirs, Confessions.
4. ‘Hooley Companies’, Money, 3 September 1898, p. 565.
5. Hooley, Confessions, p. 149.
6. Ibid., p. 73.
7. Ibid., p. 12.
8. Ibid., p. 8.
9. Anon., The Hooley Book (London, John Dicks, 1904), p. 28.
10. ‘The Cycle Boom’, The Economist,16 May 1896, p. 618.
11. ‘The Hooley Failure’, The Economist, 30 July 1898, p. 1113.
12. ‘Cyclomania’, Financial Times, 27 April 1896, p. 4.
13. ‘Beeston Pneumatic Tyre Co Ltd’, Money, 2 May 1896, p. 625.
14. ‘Beeston Pneumatic Tyre’, Financial Times, 1 May 1896, p. 3.
15. ‘City Notes’, Irish Field and Gentleman’s Gazette, 21 March 1896, p. 388.
16. ‘The Grappler Tyre Company’, Financial Times, 18 May 1896, p. 7.
17. ‘City Notes’, Irish Field and Gentleman’s Gazette, 2 May 1896, p.
541.
18. ‘City Notes’, Irish Field and Gentleman’s Gazette, 9 May 1896, p. 565.
19. ‘The Grappler Pneumatic Tyre and Cycle Company Ltd’, Evening Irish Times, 27 May 1896, p. 5.
20. Ibid.
21. Ibid.
22. ‘City Notes’, Irish Field and Gentleman’s Gazette, 30 May 1896, p. 658.
23. ‘Mr Hooley as a Company Promoter’, Pall Mall Gazette, 27 May 1898, p. 5.
24. Hooley, Confessions, p. 50.
25. Anon., Hooley Book, p. 25.
26. ‘Results of the Hooley System of Finance’, The Economist, 20 August 1898, p. 1213.
27. ‘The Money Market’, The Times, 23 November 1896, p. 4.
28. Hooley, Confessions, p. 55.
29. Ibid., p. 25.
30. Ibid., p. 160.
31. Ibid., p. 95.
32. Ibid., p. 146.
33. ‘Hooley’, The Cycle, 19 December 1896, no 158.
34. Anon., Hooley Book, p. 106.
35. Hooley, Confessions, pp. 153–4.
36. ‘Mr Hooley’s Latest Scheme’,The Economist, 10 July 1897, p. 987.
37. Ibid.
38. ‘More Hooley Finance’, The Economist, 28 August 1897, p. 1232.
39. ‘Men of Millions’, Financial Times, 21 February 1898, p. 8.
40. ‘Drucker v. Hooley’, The Times, 11 May 1898, p. 3.
41. Ibid.
42. ‘The Grappler Tyre Company’, Financial Times, 18 May 1898, p. 7.
43. Ibid.
44. Ibid.
45. ‘Mr Hooley and the Grappler Company’, Financial Times, 20 May 1898, p. 6.
46. Ibid.
47. ‘Mr Hooley and the Grappler Tyre Company’, The Economist, 21 May 1898, p. 767.
48. ‘Mr Hooley as a Company Promoter’, Pall Mall Gazette, 27 May 1898, p. 5.
49. Ibid.
50. ‘The Hooley Failure’, The Economist, 30 July 1898, p. 1113.
51. Anon., Hooley Book, p. 52.
52. Commonwealth, quoted in Anon., Hooley Book, pp. 61–2.
53. Anon., Hooley Book, p. 130.
54. ‘Mr Hooley on his Financial Position’, Telegraph, 10 June 1898, p. 7.
55. ‘The Affairs of Mr E. T. Hooley’,The Times, 25 July 1898, p. 3.
56. Ibid.
57. Hooley, Confessions, p. 274.
58. ‘In re Hooley’, The Times, 28 July 1898, p. 14.
59. ‘In re Hooley’, The Times, 11 August 1898, p. 4.
60. ‘In re E. T. Hooley’, The Times, 1 November 1898, p. 13.
61. ‘In re E. T. Hooley’, The Times, 18 August 1898, p. 10.
62. ‘The Charges against Mr Hooley’,The Times, 7 March 1899, p. 12.
63. Hooley, Confessions, p. 177.
64. Ibid., p. 288.
65. Ibid., p. 291.
66. Ibid., p. 1.
67. Ibid., p. 5.
68. Ibid., p. 13.
69. Ibid., p. 299.
70. ‘Hooley Companies’, Money, 8 October 1898, pp. 645–6.
71. ‘Financier’s Affairs’, The Times,22 February 1939, p. 16.
72. ‘Hooley Companies’, Money, 8 October 1898, p. 645.
Chapter 8: The Greatest Liar on Earth
1. Wide World Magazine (London, George Newnes Ltd, 1898), 1/1, p. 3.
2. Ibid., 1/5, p. 451.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid., p. 454.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid., p. 462.
7. Ibid., p. 471.
8. Ibid., p. 475.
9. ‘The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont’, Wide World Magazine, 1/6, p. 617.
10. ‘ “?” by an Australian’, Daily Chronicle, 9 September 1898, p. 5.
11. Ibid.
12. ‘A New Crusoe’, Daily Chronicle, 10 September 1898, p. 6.
13. Ibid.
14. ‘British Association’, The Times, 13 September 1898, p. 8.
15. Ibid.
16. Daily Chronicle, 13 September 1898, p. 4.
17. ‘The British Association, a Retrospect’, The Times, 19 September 1898, p. 12.
18. Home News, 16 September 1898, p. 4.
19. ‘The Annual Meeting of the British Association’, The Times, 15 September 1898, p. 7.
20. Daily Chronicle, Grien on Rougemont, or the Story of a Modern Robinson Crusoe (London, Edward Lloyd Ltd, 1898), p. 13.
21. Evening News, 13 September 1898, p. 4.
22. Ibid.
23. ‘A Yachtsman’s View’, Daily Chronicle, 12 September 1898, p. 5.
24. ‘M de Rougemont and His Artist’, Daily Chronicle, 13 September 1898, p. 5.
25. ‘De Rougemont and Jensen’, Daily Chronicle, 14 September 1898, p. 5.
26. ‘Is Mr de Rougemont’s Story True?’, Daily Chronicle, 12 September 1898, p. 5.
27. Grien on Rougemont, p. 12.
28. Ibid.
29. Ibid.
30. Ibid., p. 13
31. ‘De Rougemont at the “Chronicle” Office’, Daily Chronicle, 15 September 1898, p. 5.
32. ‘De Rougemont’, Daily Chronicle, 17 September 1898, p. 5.
33. ‘Professor Forbes and M de Rougemont’, Daily Chronicle, 20 September 1898, p. 5.
34. ‘The Octopus Story’, Daily Chronicle, 20 September 1898, p. 5.
35. ‘De Rougemont’, Daily Chronicle, 22 September 1898, p. 5.
36. Wide World Magazine, 1/7, p. 3.
37. Wide World Magazine, 2/7, p. 4.
38. Ibid., p. 8.
39. Ibid., p. 18.
40. ‘De Rougemont’, Daily Chronicle, 23 September 1898, p. 5.
41. ‘The Narrative of M de Rougemont’, Daily Chronicle, 26 September 1898, p. 6.
42. Wide World Magazine, 2/8, p. 115.
43. ‘De Rougemont’, Daily Chronicle, 14 October 1898, p. 5.
44. Evening News, 3 October 1898, p. 4.
45. ‘M. de Rougemont’s Lecture’, Daily Graphic, 4 October 1898, p. 4.
46. The Times, 7 October 1898, p. 1.
47. ‘De Rougemont’, Daily Chronicle, 7 October 1898, p. 5.
48. Ibid.
49. Ibid.
50. ‘The Rougemont Fraud’, Daily Chronicle, 10 October 1898, p. 5.
51. Ibid.
52. ‘Another London Adventure’, Daily Chronicle, 8 October 1898, p. 5.
53. ‘An Earlier Experiment’, Daily Chronicle, 8 October 1898, p. 5.
54. ‘De Rougemont’s “Confidences”’, Daily Chronicle, 15 October 1898, p. 6.
55. Ibid.
56. Ibid.
57. ‘Rougemont’, Daily Chronicle, 11 October 1898, p. 5.
58. ‘Rougemont’, Daily Chronicle 12 October 1898, p. 8.
59. ‘Rougemont’, Daily Chronicle, 15 October 1898, p. 5.
60. ‘Rougemont’, Daily Chronicle, 13 October 1898, p. 8.
61. ‘De Rougemont’, Daily Chronicle,14 October 1898, p. 5.
62. ‘Rougemont’, Daily Chronicle,17 October 1898, p. 5.
63. ‘The Topic of the Hour’, London Morning, 12 October 1898, p. 1.
64. ‘Rougemont’, Daily Chronicle, 13 October 1898, p. 7.
65. Wide World Magazine, 2/9, p. 227, quoting ‘An Amended Motto’, The World, 12 October 1898, p. 25.
66. ‘George Newnes (Limited)’, The Times, 1 August 1899, p. 3.
67. Hulda Friederichs, The Life of Sir George Newnes, Bart (London, Hodder & Stoughton 1911), p. 129.
68. H.L. Grin (as Louis de Rougemont), The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont, as Told by Himself (London, George Newnes Ltd, 1899), p. 113.
69. Ibid., p. 122.
70. H.M. Mill, An Autobiography (London, Longmans Green and Co., 1951), p. 99.
71. ‘My Friend Mr Green’, The Sketch, 12 October 1898, p. 516.
72. ‘De Rougemont. Fiasco at the Bijou’, Argus, 18 March 1901, p. 5.
73. Ibid.
74. ‘De Rougemont in Melbourne. An Unsympathetic Audience’, The Age, 18 March 1901, p. 6.
75. Frank Clune, The Greatest Liar on Earth (Melbourne, Hawth
orn Press, 1945), p. 21.
76. ‘The Tivoli – De Rougemont’, Sydney Morning Herald, 25 March 1901, p. 5.
77. ‘Entertainment’, The Times, 30 July 1906, p. 1.
78. The Hon. Sir John Kirwan, An Empty Land: Pioneers and Pioneering in Australia (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1934), p. 141.
79. Ibid., pp. 141–2.
80. Ibid., p. 142.
Chapter 9: The Juggler with Millions
1. ‘The Westralian Mining Market’,The Economist, 24 June 1899, p. 903.
2. ‘London and Globe Finance Corporation’, The Times, 18 December 1900, p. 12.
3. Charles E. Drummond Black, The Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (London, Hutchinson and Co., 1903), p. 363.
4. ‘London and Globe Finance Corporation’, The Times, 18 December 1900, p. 12.
5. Ibid.
6. Birth certificate of James Whittaker Wright.
7. Raymond Radclyffe, Wealth and Wild Cats: Travels and Researches in the Goldfields of Western Australia and New Zealand (London, Downey and Co., 1898) p. 203.
8. Ibid., pp. 200–1.
9. Black, The Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, p. 379.
10. Ibid.
11. ‘London and Globe Finance Corporation (Limited)’, The Times, 17 December 1901, p. 7.
12. ‘Company Meetings. London and Globe Finance’, Financial Times, 25 October 1899, p. 3.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. ‘The Whitaker Wright Companies’,The Times, 28 January 1902, p. 13.
16. ‘Why Westralians are Weak’, Financial Times, 1 November 1900, p. 7.
17. Sir Alfred Lyall, The Life of the Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (London, John Murray, 1905), vol. 2, p. 304.
18. ‘London and Globe Finance Corporation (Limited), The Times, 10 January 1901, p. 13.
19. Ibid.
20. Ibid.
21. ‘London and Globe Finance’, Financial Times, 10 January 1901, p. 3.
22. Ibid.
23. ‘Globe Meeting’, Pall Mall Gazette, 10 January 1901, p. 4.
24. ‘Chat on Change’, Daily Mail, 5 January 1901, p. 2.
25. ‘The Money Market’, The Times, 23 May 1901, p. 4.
26. ‘British America Corporation (Limited)’, The Times, 4 June 1901, p. 3.
27. Ibid.
28. Ibid.
29. Ibid.
30. Ibid.
31. ‘The Whitaker Wright companies. Further Revelations’, The Times, 31 July 1901, p. 13.
32. Ibid.
33. Ibid.
34. Ibid.
35. Lyall, The Life of the Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, vol. 2, p. 305.
36. The Whitaker Wright Companies’,The Times, 28 January 1902, p. 13.
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