1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:04,320 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you missed in History Class from works 2 00:00:04,360 --> 00:00:14,280 Speaker 1: dot Com. Hello, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Sara 3 00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:16,959 Speaker 1: Downey and I'm Deblin and Charkerboarding And when we left 4 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:20,320 Speaker 1: off last time. The German Jewish immigrant Adam Worth had 5 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 1: died in the American Civil War, supposedly and gone on 6 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:28,240 Speaker 1: to become a successful criminal mastermind, and had over time 7 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:32,680 Speaker 1: accumulated all the trappings of an upper class British lifestyle 8 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:38,240 Speaker 1: as Henry Judson Raymond manif leisure, including the nice clothes, 9 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:41,879 Speaker 1: the posh accent, the yacht you know, really everything. But 10 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:46,240 Speaker 1: after a disastrous eighteen seventy four forgery attempt in Constantinople, 11 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:50,479 Speaker 1: Worth found himself safe but without a gang, and broke 12 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:53,240 Speaker 1: from trying to buy their freedom. To add to his woes, 13 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:56,600 Speaker 1: his longtime love and the mother of his children, Kittie Flynn, 14 00:00:56,880 --> 00:01:00,440 Speaker 1: had left for America, and his best friend, piano Charlie Bullard, 15 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:04,560 Speaker 1: Kitty's estranged husband, had been arrested for a robbery committed 16 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:09,080 Speaker 1: years earlier. Worth did eventually rebound from this, though The 17 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:12,679 Speaker 1: Pinkerton's called him quote the most remarkable, most successful, and 18 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:16,360 Speaker 1: most dangerous professional criminal known to modern times, and he 19 00:01:16,440 --> 00:01:21,000 Speaker 1: of course eventually inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's character Professor Moriarty, 20 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:24,520 Speaker 1: the arch nemesis of Sherlott Holmes, but at this point 21 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:27,319 Speaker 1: in his career he was down and out and heartbroken 22 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:30,480 Speaker 1: to boot. Then, as if things couldn't get worse, in 23 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:34,840 Speaker 1: eighteen seventy six, Worth's criminally incompetent younger brother arrives in 24 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:39,360 Speaker 1: town looking for work. So John Worth shared his older 25 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:43,360 Speaker 1: brother's criminal tendencies, but none of his talents that we've 26 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:47,760 Speaker 1: already learned from Pinkerton's Detective Agency's pamphlet on Worth Life, 27 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:50,760 Speaker 1: which is an excellent source of information on him. By 28 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:54,920 Speaker 1: the way, Worth quote never forsook a friend or accomplice, 29 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 1: and for him, that of course meant putting his brother 30 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:01,040 Speaker 1: to work on easy jobs with a lot out of supervision, 31 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:04,240 Speaker 1: very strict instructions, you know, so he wouldn't mess it up. 32 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:08,480 Speaker 1: John Worth, though, really couldn't manage even the most straightforward job, 33 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:12,120 Speaker 1: and found himself arrested in Paris were trying to pass 34 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:16,480 Speaker 1: counterfeit notes. John Sure, the Chief Inspector of Scotland Yard, 35 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:19,080 Speaker 1: the guy who had been hunting Adam Worth without success 36 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:22,200 Speaker 1: for years, jumped on this, he had the younger were 37 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:25,880 Speaker 1: extraditeed into England and charged him with forger, you know, 38 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:28,639 Speaker 1: hoping to sort of lure out the older brother while 39 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:30,919 Speaker 1: the younger one was in jail, and Adam Worth did, 40 00:02:30,919 --> 00:02:33,959 Speaker 1: in fact, in the meantime set about trying to get 41 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:36,120 Speaker 1: his brother out of jail, though he didn't just come 42 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:38,320 Speaker 1: out in the open. He was a little sneakier about it. 43 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:41,080 Speaker 1: Though by this time it was tough because though he 44 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:44,120 Speaker 1: had enough cash on hand for bail, the law at 45 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:46,920 Speaker 1: the time stipulated that the bondsman must be a gentleman 46 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:50,480 Speaker 1: of good reputation. So where was Worth going to find 47 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:53,240 Speaker 1: someone willing to post bond and put his reputation on 48 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:55,840 Speaker 1: the line for a guy who was just obviously going 49 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:57,520 Speaker 1: to jump bail and high tail it back to the 50 00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 1: States immediately. So in late May Worth is pondering this 51 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:05,280 Speaker 1: very problem when he goes by some art galleries on 52 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:08,160 Speaker 1: Old Bond Street, and one of them, Agnew and Company, 53 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:11,959 Speaker 1: was staging an exhibition and crowds and carriages were all 54 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:15,320 Speaker 1: gathered on the street. Just days before, the gallery had 55 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:18,040 Speaker 1: bought a gains for a portrait of Georgeiane, a Duchess 56 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:21,640 Speaker 1: of Devonshire at auction, paying the highest amount ever paid 57 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:24,320 Speaker 1: for an English painting. It's the equivalent of about six 58 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars today. So when Worth went in to 59 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:30,680 Speaker 1: see this famous work of art, he was struck by 60 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:34,400 Speaker 1: an idea. If he stole the picture, he could force 61 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:38,600 Speaker 1: its owner, Thomas Agnew, to postpond for his younger brother 62 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:42,320 Speaker 1: in exchange for a return of the painting, so basically 63 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:46,880 Speaker 1: ransoming the painting in the form of a bond instead 64 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:50,440 Speaker 1: of just straight cash or something like that. So pretty 65 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:52,960 Speaker 1: soon after he gets this idea, he goes back to 66 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 1: the gallery with two accomplices and Worth had himself hoisted 67 00:03:56,560 --> 00:03:59,760 Speaker 1: to the second floor window allege Pride open the window 68 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:03,520 Speaker 1: with a crowbar, cut the portrait from its frame very carefully, 69 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:06,560 Speaker 1: you know. They police realized later that whoever did it 70 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:09,640 Speaker 1: barely damage the painting at all, and then rolled it 71 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:13,800 Speaker 1: all up, taking care not to crack the surface. Of course, 72 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:16,960 Speaker 1: with this high price that the painting had just sold for, 73 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:20,719 Speaker 1: the theft created a sensation, and it was partly because 74 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:24,280 Speaker 1: it wasn't the first time the painting had gone missing. Yeah, 75 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:29,040 Speaker 1: Gainsborough painted Georgiana, previous podcast subject known for her political action, 76 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:32,240 Speaker 1: her trend setting, and her affair with Charles Gray. He 77 00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:34,920 Speaker 1: had painted her several times during her life, but this 78 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 1: particular Georgiana, with her trademark broad brimmed hat and feathers 79 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:42,720 Speaker 1: sometimes called a Gainsborough hat and a suggestive pound, is 80 00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:46,040 Speaker 1: quite different from the other ones. According to Ben McEntire's 81 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:49,240 Speaker 1: biography of Worth, the Napoleon of Crime, The Life and 82 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:51,839 Speaker 1: Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief, which we mentioned in 83 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:55,560 Speaker 1: the previous podcast, the painting first disappeared right around the 84 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:59,479 Speaker 1: time Georgiana got pregnant by Gray, about seventeen ninety two 85 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:03,680 Speaker 1: or so. Then about fifty years after that, it mysteriously 86 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:06,799 Speaker 1: popped up in the home of a retired school mistress 87 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:10,279 Speaker 1: who had chopped off for Georgana's legs so that the 88 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 1: painting would fit over her fireplace. An art dealer learned 89 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:18,880 Speaker 1: that this woman might have some rare paintings, and um 90 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 1: swung By decided he wanted to buy it, purchased the 91 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:23,760 Speaker 1: painting off the woman, and then sold it to his 92 00:05:23,839 --> 00:05:28,119 Speaker 1: friend When Ellis. When Ellis died, he left his entire 93 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:32,359 Speaker 1: impressive art collection to the National Gallery, which kept the 94 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:35,840 Speaker 1: old school stuff and put the more modern items, including 95 00:05:35,839 --> 00:05:38,479 Speaker 1: the gains for up at auction. So today it may 96 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:41,040 Speaker 1: be hard for some people to imagine a painting causing 97 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:45,320 Speaker 1: quite such a stir, but women began imitating Georgana's hats. 98 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:48,480 Speaker 1: Art critics debated about whether it was really a gain Sbura, 99 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:51,520 Speaker 1: and people wondered whether the sitter was actually the other 100 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:55,000 Speaker 1: Duchess of Devonshire, and that's the Duke's second wife who 101 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:58,360 Speaker 1: had lived with him in Georgiana for years. In Managois. Yeah, 102 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:01,119 Speaker 1: people were suggesting all of this and saying, oh, maybe 103 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:04,000 Speaker 1: Agney paid too much because it's not really a Gainsbrow, 104 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:06,839 Speaker 1: or it's not really georg Jane. Somebody were not as 105 00:06:06,880 --> 00:06:10,719 Speaker 1: interested in So it was a big public hullabaloo, and 106 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:14,720 Speaker 1: Worth stuffed only added to that sensation. McEntyre sites one 107 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:18,000 Speaker 1: newspaper's tongue in cheek suggestion that the thief had promoted 108 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:21,680 Speaker 1: both art and history by stealing the work. Quote, he 109 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:25,280 Speaker 1: was an apostle of culture. So that's a pretty funny 110 00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:27,240 Speaker 1: way to look at it, and I'm sure that's not 111 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:32,200 Speaker 1: how Agney saw it after losing his valuable investment. But 112 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:36,040 Speaker 1: fortunately Worth had never intended to sell the painting because 113 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:39,040 Speaker 1: the attention would have made it impossible with everybody talking 114 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:41,960 Speaker 1: about the theft and George, Jana and Gainsborough. But his 115 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:46,040 Speaker 1: reason for stealing it vanished anyway because John Worth lawyer 116 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:50,080 Speaker 1: had secured his release and big brother Adam quickly packed 117 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:53,160 Speaker 1: John up, sent him home and had him promise, don't 118 00:06:53,160 --> 00:06:56,520 Speaker 1: come back here and don't get into crime again, because 119 00:06:56,520 --> 00:06:58,760 Speaker 1: they're not very good at it. So what do you 120 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:01,440 Speaker 1: do with a painting like this that you've stolen and 121 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:04,479 Speaker 1: you certainly can't fell, and you certainly can't display. I 122 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:07,359 Speaker 1: mean probably a lot of art thieves would unfortunately have 123 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:12,600 Speaker 1: destroyed such an incriminating item. But fortunately for for us 124 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:15,920 Speaker 1: in the world, Worth instead fell in love with his 125 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:19,040 Speaker 1: painting and lovingly took care of it. When he was 126 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:21,680 Speaker 1: at home, he kept it stored flat under his mattress 127 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:24,320 Speaker 1: between boards. When on the move, he carried it and 128 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:28,440 Speaker 1: especially made false bottomed trunk so that his lady was 129 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:31,800 Speaker 1: always on his arm, so to speak. But the attachment 130 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:35,560 Speaker 1: wasn't without cost. Worth wound up blackmailed by his two 131 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:38,480 Speaker 1: accomplices in the theft, though neither could really do much 132 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:40,720 Speaker 1: about it since they didn't know where the painting was. 133 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:44,280 Speaker 1: When Worth moved back to New York City to escape 134 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:47,600 Speaker 1: the increased surveillance of John Shore. He did attempt to 135 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:51,840 Speaker 1: sell the work back to Agnew Corresponding through secret advertisements 136 00:07:51,840 --> 00:07:55,920 Speaker 1: in the London Times, but the half hearted negotiations actually 137 00:07:55,920 --> 00:07:58,320 Speaker 1: fell through when Worth refused to go to London to 138 00:07:58,360 --> 00:08:01,520 Speaker 1: deliver the painting and the dealers refused to send a 139 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:04,080 Speaker 1: representative to the States. Well, and it really kind of 140 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:06,560 Speaker 1: seemed at this point like Worth wanted to keep the 141 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:09,400 Speaker 1: painting for himself, and but that just really did become 142 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:12,880 Speaker 1: even more important for him when his flesh and blood 143 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:14,880 Speaker 1: love Kitty Flynn, who had talked about a lot in 144 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:19,600 Speaker 1: the last podcast, divorce Bullard and married Juan Pedro Terry, 145 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:24,320 Speaker 1: who was an extraordinarily rich half Irish son of a 146 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:27,720 Speaker 1: sugar planter. And you know, with this marriage and her 147 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:31,000 Speaker 1: all her new money and her society cachet, she became 148 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:34,720 Speaker 1: a New York society matron who would travel with her husband, 149 00:08:34,920 --> 00:08:39,880 Speaker 1: spend excessively, amuse herself with some kind of frivolous lawsuits, 150 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:44,080 Speaker 1: really kind of assuming the position she had tried to 151 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:46,960 Speaker 1: attain her entire life. So for Worth, it was definitely 152 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:49,439 Speaker 1: time for new pastures. It was time to get something 153 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:52,400 Speaker 1: else going, but he couldn't get it going right away. 154 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:55,120 Speaker 1: He couldn't form a new trustworthy gang for one thing, 155 00:08:55,160 --> 00:08:58,559 Speaker 1: and his nemesis Max shan burned crimes kept being mistaken 156 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:01,920 Speaker 1: as his own. In eight he decided to go to 157 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:06,800 Speaker 1: Cape Town, South Africa, quote partly on business, partly for pleasure. 158 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:10,680 Speaker 1: He bought a hunting coat for his duchess. I mean, 159 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:13,600 Speaker 1: that's just it's pretty weird, taking it to another level. 160 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:16,040 Speaker 1: I mean it's one thing to travel around with her everywhere, 161 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:18,680 Speaker 1: but he bought her a nice coat, started buying her clothes, 162 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:22,320 Speaker 1: wrapped her up and left. Expecting the diamond fields would 163 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:24,720 Speaker 1: make a great target for him. So in order to 164 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:29,400 Speaker 1: move around South Africa without attracting suspicion, he got into 165 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:32,800 Speaker 1: the Ostrich feather business, which was really booming at the time, 166 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:37,920 Speaker 1: coincidentally because of Georgiana and her big hat trend with 167 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:40,959 Speaker 1: big feathers, you know, it had really caught on with 168 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:44,840 Speaker 1: the ladies of the era, and so Worth pretended like 169 00:09:44,920 --> 00:09:47,200 Speaker 1: he was in the Ostrich feather business and he'd go 170 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:51,840 Speaker 1: out to visit Ostrich farms and visit agents feather agents, 171 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:54,480 Speaker 1: and this gave him kind of a past to move 172 00:09:54,520 --> 00:09:57,440 Speaker 1: around the country without people taking notice. Of course, he 173 00:09:57,520 --> 00:10:01,679 Speaker 1: was really studying the path of diamonds from mind to coast, 174 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:04,679 Speaker 1: how the rough gems got out of the mind, how 175 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:09,040 Speaker 1: they travel in armed coaches and reach outbound ships just 176 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:12,480 Speaker 1: as the ships were about to sail. So these diamond 177 00:10:12,559 --> 00:10:15,920 Speaker 1: heavy boats didn't have to linger too long. So Worth, 178 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:19,600 Speaker 1: with accomplished Charlie king In another recruit, decided that a 179 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:21,880 Speaker 1: hold up would be the way to go. Here sounds 180 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:24,320 Speaker 1: like a bad plan for Worth, though, whose motto was 181 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:27,880 Speaker 1: quote a man with brains has no right to carry firearms. 182 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:31,079 Speaker 1: There was always away in a better way by the 183 00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:34,080 Speaker 1: quick exercise of the brain. He of course ended up 184 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:36,920 Speaker 1: being shot at and had to abandon the attempt, and 185 00:10:36,960 --> 00:10:40,199 Speaker 1: the next plan was more of a master criminal style 186 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:44,120 Speaker 1: did more Worth style. So working alone this time, Worth 187 00:10:44,160 --> 00:10:47,640 Speaker 1: spent months studying the convoys of coaches and realized that 188 00:10:47,679 --> 00:10:50,040 Speaker 1: if the slightest thing went wrong on the trip, the 189 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:53,760 Speaker 1: diamond shipment would miss the boat. When this happened, the 190 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:56,920 Speaker 1: stones would be locked up in the Port Elizabeth post office. 191 00:10:57,400 --> 00:11:01,400 Speaker 1: So Worth made friends with the assistant postmass, eventually copying 192 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:05,240 Speaker 1: his keys in wax. From there he delayed a shipment 193 00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:08,480 Speaker 1: by cutting a ferry rope and robbed the post office 194 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:12,120 Speaker 1: of five hundred thousand dollars worth of diamonds. So here 195 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:14,000 Speaker 1: he is. He's back in the game, and big diamond 196 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:16,400 Speaker 1: back in the game. So in the last episode we 197 00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:21,240 Speaker 1: talked about or It's double identity as the respectable, comfortable 198 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:24,560 Speaker 1: Henry Raymond. But with all of this new diamond wealth, 199 00:11:24,920 --> 00:11:29,000 Speaker 1: Worth or Raymond rather re established himself in London and 200 00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:32,760 Speaker 1: put on even more of a gentlemanly show than he 201 00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:35,920 Speaker 1: had before. He bought a coastal house in Brighton, he 202 00:11:36,040 --> 00:11:39,280 Speaker 1: purchased land for hunting. He'd take these elaborate trips to 203 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:42,640 Speaker 1: Monte Carlo and Gamble. He grew a bush here, more 204 00:11:42,679 --> 00:11:45,199 Speaker 1: impressive mustache, and put on a little bit of weight. 205 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:48,920 Speaker 1: And he got married to his wife, whose name is 206 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:53,520 Speaker 1: unfortunately unknown, was the daughter of a gentlewoman widow who 207 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:56,600 Speaker 1: Worth had lodged with at one point, and um he 208 00:11:56,720 --> 00:11:59,560 Speaker 1: sort of took on the widow's children as his wards 209 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:03,720 Speaker 1: and hated them, and then ended up marrying the eldest daughter. Mr. 210 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:06,440 Speaker 1: And Mrs Worth had a sunborn in eight eight and 211 00:12:06,559 --> 00:12:10,679 Speaker 1: a daughter born in eight Although the really strange thing 212 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:13,000 Speaker 1: about all of this is that Worth kept his criminal 213 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:16,400 Speaker 1: life completely secret from them. I mean a real contrast 214 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:19,080 Speaker 1: to his relationship with Kitty, where she was very much 215 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:21,320 Speaker 1: part of heart of the plane what he was doing. 216 00:12:21,760 --> 00:12:24,199 Speaker 1: Mrs Worth didn't know who her husband was at all. 217 00:12:24,880 --> 00:12:28,720 Speaker 1: But Worth didn't flat out retire. Even Shinburne said of him, quote, 218 00:12:29,040 --> 00:12:32,120 Speaker 1: Raymond loved his work for its own sake, and although 219 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:35,160 Speaker 1: he lived in luxury and style, applied his energies to 220 00:12:35,160 --> 00:12:38,800 Speaker 1: the last and organizing crimes. He did make a concession 221 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:41,280 Speaker 1: to married life though. It was a time to move 222 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:45,280 Speaker 1: his lady friend Georgiana out of the house. Worth crossed 223 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:48,040 Speaker 1: the Atlantic with his false bottom trunk and store the 224 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:51,679 Speaker 1: Duchess in a Brooklyn warehouse. He had a pretty close 225 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:53,960 Speaker 1: call along the way to He was actually stopped by 226 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:57,360 Speaker 1: police in Canada who found diamonds and undeclared cash on 227 00:12:57,400 --> 00:13:00,680 Speaker 1: his person, but they did not find the That would 228 00:13:00,679 --> 00:13:03,480 Speaker 1: have been quite a fine. So on every trip Worth 229 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:06,360 Speaker 1: would make after this to the States over the next 230 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:09,360 Speaker 1: six years or so, he would always move the painting 231 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:12,560 Speaker 1: to a new storage facility, you know, really taking a 232 00:13:12,640 --> 00:13:15,640 Speaker 1: lot of trouble to make sure it was secret and 233 00:13:15,679 --> 00:13:20,960 Speaker 1: nobody knew he had it. The eighties were clearly worth heyday, 234 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:25,000 Speaker 1: but the first step in his ultimate downfall happened as 235 00:13:25,040 --> 00:13:28,800 Speaker 1: early as eighteen eighty four. Bullard, his old best friend, 236 00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:31,560 Speaker 1: was out of jail, very sick by this point and 237 00:13:31,640 --> 00:13:35,040 Speaker 1: really not so great at crime anymore. He was no 238 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:38,760 Speaker 1: longer the ace burglar that he used to be. Bullard, though, 239 00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:41,600 Speaker 1: was still looking for work, so he teamed up with 240 00:13:41,640 --> 00:13:46,760 Speaker 1: shin Burn to stage heist in Liege, Belgium. The two 241 00:13:46,760 --> 00:13:48,920 Speaker 1: of them got busted in the middle of the crime. 242 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:51,800 Speaker 1: It was really poorly carried out, and Worth took it 243 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:54,920 Speaker 1: upon himself to try to help out his friend Bullard, 244 00:13:54,960 --> 00:13:58,960 Speaker 1: you know, get him out of prison like the Constantinople incident. 245 00:13:59,040 --> 00:14:02,000 Speaker 1: Though it was not easy, and ultimately the best Worth 246 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:04,680 Speaker 1: could do is get messages to Bullard, get him some 247 00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:07,840 Speaker 1: extra food, um, just trying to make his old friend 248 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:11,520 Speaker 1: a little more comfortable. Finally, though, after Bullard was in 249 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:14,440 Speaker 1: prison for seven years, shouldn't burn too, of course, but 250 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:17,600 Speaker 1: Worth didn't much care about him being there. After Bullard 251 00:14:17,640 --> 00:14:20,920 Speaker 1: was there for seven years, Worth decided that he really 252 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:23,760 Speaker 1: needed to make some kind of last ditch attempt to 253 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:26,000 Speaker 1: get his buddy out, you know, maybe even breaking out 254 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:29,600 Speaker 1: of prison, because Bullard was clearly by this point dying. 255 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:33,000 Speaker 1: By the time Worth got to Liege, Bullard was already dead, 256 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:36,000 Speaker 1: but for some reason, Worth decided to stage a reckless 257 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:38,400 Speaker 1: crime while he was in town, robbing one of the 258 00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:42,240 Speaker 1: vans that brought money into the city. Along with two accomplices, 259 00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:45,600 Speaker 1: Worth planned the high Swell but got greedy while at 260 00:14:45,640 --> 00:14:48,760 Speaker 1: emptying the van's lock box of money and packages. His 261 00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:52,440 Speaker 1: lookouts fled and he was spotted by a railway employee 262 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:55,760 Speaker 1: and was chased down by the police. Once caught, he 263 00:14:55,800 --> 00:14:58,560 Speaker 1: tried to bluff his way out as Edward grow but 264 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:01,520 Speaker 1: police found cards id to find him as Henry Raymond. 265 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:06,040 Speaker 1: He thoroughly confused them with stories about being a German mechanic, 266 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:08,720 Speaker 1: being a former thief but one who hadn't stolen in 267 00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:12,960 Speaker 1: two years, being a diamond salesman. But he finally messed 268 00:15:13,040 --> 00:15:15,480 Speaker 1: up when he said, quote, if you knew the truth, 269 00:15:15,880 --> 00:15:18,960 Speaker 1: I would be put away in prison for eternity. Okay, 270 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:22,520 Speaker 1: So that set off the morning for the authority. This 271 00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:25,080 Speaker 1: guy who's already told them a million different stories and 272 00:15:25,200 --> 00:15:29,920 Speaker 1: given them two different names. Um, so clearly this prisoner 273 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:32,720 Speaker 1: was somebody, but they didn't know who he was, and 274 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:35,680 Speaker 1: there was even some suspicion that he might be a 275 00:15:35,760 --> 00:15:39,640 Speaker 1: spy because, unfortunately for Worth, some of those packages he 276 00:15:39,680 --> 00:15:43,680 Speaker 1: had grabbed up from the van happened to contain state papers. Whoops, 277 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:45,960 Speaker 1: you know, a little more heat than he was anticipating. 278 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:50,400 Speaker 1: So still, though the authority's information on him was overall 279 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:53,400 Speaker 1: pretty sketchy, and Worth thought that he might be able 280 00:15:53,440 --> 00:15:56,680 Speaker 1: to get off easy until Max shin Burned, his old nemesis, 281 00:15:56,760 --> 00:15:59,800 Speaker 1: and of course, still in the local jail, wrote a 282 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:03,600 Speaker 1: that are spilling the beans completely pretty much listed everything 283 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:07,240 Speaker 1: Worth had ever done since the Civil War. Actually a 284 00:16:07,320 --> 00:16:09,320 Speaker 1: little more than that, because he kind of made him 285 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:11,960 Speaker 1: out to be a really nasty criminal, you know, one 286 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:15,560 Speaker 1: who betrayed his friends, not really sticking much to worth 287 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:19,440 Speaker 1: real personality. All of the international authorities in the know 288 00:16:19,640 --> 00:16:23,640 Speaker 1: about Adam Worth, Henry Raymond and the career of this 289 00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:27,240 Speaker 1: man who was obviously one person backed up the tail 290 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:31,400 Speaker 1: to accept notably remember this one the Pinkerton's who didn't 291 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:36,040 Speaker 1: have anything to say about this, these allegations from Max Shinburn, 292 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:39,760 Speaker 1: even though arguably they knew the most about Worth than anyone, 293 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:42,800 Speaker 1: or more about him than anyone. Still. Worth story became 294 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:46,720 Speaker 1: international news, and he began receiving coded messages from his 295 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:49,880 Speaker 1: friends around the world. They would message him as comedian 296 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:53,240 Speaker 1: or Edward Grow. That's the best one, Edward Grow. That 297 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:56,480 Speaker 1: must have really confused the people in the prisons he 298 00:16:56,480 --> 00:17:00,320 Speaker 1: had blamed to be Edward Grow exactly. Also ter boys, 299 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:03,400 Speaker 1: who turned out to be the now widowed Kitty, offering 300 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:08,360 Speaker 1: encouragement and even money. His lawyer advised him to confess 301 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:11,520 Speaker 1: to the liege robbery but deny all the other crimes, 302 00:17:11,520 --> 00:17:16,159 Speaker 1: but it didn't work. After his March trial, Worth was 303 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:19,720 Speaker 1: found guilty and sentenced to seven years of solitary confinement 304 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:23,760 Speaker 1: with hard labor at the Prison de louvan. So prison 305 00:17:23,880 --> 00:17:27,480 Speaker 1: was particularly bad for Worth because Shinburne was still there, 306 00:17:27,520 --> 00:17:30,399 Speaker 1: and shinburn had been there for a very long time 307 00:17:30,520 --> 00:17:35,000 Speaker 1: and had gotten quite powerful and actually consequently, Worth did 308 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:38,120 Speaker 1: not learn of Shinburne's treachery until he was in jail. 309 00:17:38,119 --> 00:17:42,320 Speaker 1: When he found out, he was understandably quite upset. Also, 310 00:17:43,160 --> 00:17:45,520 Speaker 1: Worth's family fell apart while he was in prison. We 311 00:17:45,560 --> 00:17:48,680 Speaker 1: mentioned that he hadn't told his wife, his kids didn't 312 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:51,960 Speaker 1: know what his real job was. Mrs Raymond learned about 313 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:56,199 Speaker 1: her husband's true identity in the newspaper and just completely 314 00:17:56,200 --> 00:17:59,760 Speaker 1: flipped out. Johnny Curtain, who was the associate Worth had 315 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:03,240 Speaker 1: asked with looking out from Mrs Raymond and the kids, 316 00:18:03,520 --> 00:18:06,600 Speaker 1: came to her aid, but unfortunately he came comforting her 317 00:18:06,640 --> 00:18:10,600 Speaker 1: with laudanum and alcohol and ultimately seduced her and then 318 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:14,320 Speaker 1: stole everything she had the yacht, uh sold off the 319 00:18:14,359 --> 00:18:17,760 Speaker 1: houses and pocketed the money from that and then just disappeared. 320 00:18:18,080 --> 00:18:22,520 Speaker 1: So Mrs Raymond, you know, now completely abandoned, not sure 321 00:18:22,600 --> 00:18:26,160 Speaker 1: what her life is really about, and broke wound up 322 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:28,680 Speaker 1: in an asylum, and the two kids were sent off 323 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:31,879 Speaker 1: to Brooklyn to live with John Worth, who had kept 324 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:35,520 Speaker 1: his promise and had stayed out of criminal activities. And 325 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:40,240 Speaker 1: John Worth's wife also just some other sad things happened 326 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:41,920 Speaker 1: while he was in prison. It was a really dark 327 00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:45,480 Speaker 1: period for where marm Mandelbaum, who we mentioned in the 328 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:48,680 Speaker 1: previous podcast, who had given Worth kind of his first break, 329 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:52,120 Speaker 1: she died. Kitty also died at only forty one years 330 00:18:52,119 --> 00:18:55,439 Speaker 1: of age, and news officially broke that the famous missing 331 00:18:55,520 --> 00:18:59,520 Speaker 1: Duchess might be in Worth's control. Worth's great secret. How 332 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:02,119 Speaker 1: did that get out. Well, we're about to talk about that. 333 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:05,200 Speaker 1: It's actually that story published in the Palmell Gazette only 334 00:19:05,240 --> 00:19:08,440 Speaker 1: months after Worth went to jail that likely influenced Arthur 335 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:12,399 Speaker 1: Conan Doyle's creation of Professor Moriarty. Worth had been duped 336 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:16,040 Speaker 1: by a freelance reporter posing as a solicitor into discussing 337 00:19:16,119 --> 00:19:20,159 Speaker 1: the Duchess. Their conversation was published as an interviewer confession 338 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:23,879 Speaker 1: of sorts and was reprinted in countless periodicals with a 339 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:26,720 Speaker 1: heavy dose of skepticism about whether it was true or not. 340 00:19:27,359 --> 00:19:31,480 Speaker 1: Worth battled back by granting a real exclusive interview, playing 341 00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:33,679 Speaker 1: the whole thing off as a joke. He had just 342 00:19:33,800 --> 00:19:37,080 Speaker 1: wanted to kind of green up the reporter by spinning tales, 343 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:39,879 Speaker 1: and it sounded good enough for fiction that whether this 344 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:45,120 Speaker 1: story was true or not, because by December, Professor Moriarty 345 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:49,439 Speaker 1: debuted and died in the final problem of course, you know, 346 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:54,040 Speaker 1: if you're familiar with the character, he's not a complete 347 00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:58,640 Speaker 1: match for his real life counterpart Moriarty. It's tall and thin, 348 00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:02,400 Speaker 1: he's eat creepy, you know, he's stages murders, that sort 349 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:05,080 Speaker 1: of thing. Whereas, of course, as we know, Worth did 350 00:20:05,119 --> 00:20:10,120 Speaker 1: not like violence. Um, and some inspiration probably came from 351 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:14,760 Speaker 1: a few other sources. You know, Conan Doyle wasn't relying exclusively. Unworth. 352 00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:19,480 Speaker 1: McIntyre suggests Conan Doyle's friend Major General Drayson Friedrich Nietzsche 353 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:22,639 Speaker 1: and the crooks George Moriarty and Jonathan Wilde may have 354 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:27,400 Speaker 1: been inspirations. But in a conversation with Dr Gray Chandler Briggs, 355 00:20:27,640 --> 00:20:30,720 Speaker 1: Conan Doyle did cite Worth as his inspiration. And it's 356 00:20:30,760 --> 00:20:33,320 Speaker 1: pretty obvious too if you read the character. There's some 357 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:38,000 Speaker 1: clear parallels between them. But moving back to the main 358 00:20:38,280 --> 00:20:42,800 Speaker 1: the real life guy in Or was released early from 359 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:45,880 Speaker 1: prison for good behavior. He was fifty three years old 360 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:48,480 Speaker 1: by this point. He was broke. He was really sick. 361 00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:52,159 Speaker 1: He hadn't had good medical care in prison, but he 362 00:20:52,359 --> 00:20:55,560 Speaker 1: still was in possession of the Duchess. He hadn't given 363 00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:58,520 Speaker 1: that Trump card up and he was hoping that maybe 364 00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:01,560 Speaker 1: it would help him reclaim his kids. So he said 365 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:04,520 Speaker 1: about negotiating a return of the painting. But instead of 366 00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:07,920 Speaker 1: inquiring directly with ag Knew, as he had the last 367 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:11,720 Speaker 1: go round, Worth instead brought in an intermediary named Patrick 368 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:15,640 Speaker 1: Sheety to seek out William Pinkerton to be the main 369 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:18,000 Speaker 1: go between, and you can really see a lot of 370 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:22,160 Speaker 1: Pinkerton's public image, you know, the the face he put 371 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:25,280 Speaker 1: out to the world and his agency's pamphlet on Worth 372 00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:28,240 Speaker 1: that we've mentioned a few times now, But McIntyre's book 373 00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:32,160 Speaker 1: also hints at kind of a more complicated detective, especially 374 00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:35,320 Speaker 1: later in life. Pinkerton took a lot of real genuine 375 00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:38,280 Speaker 1: interest in the men he had hunted or put into jail. 376 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:41,040 Speaker 1: He almost got along with them better than he did 377 00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:44,119 Speaker 1: with people on his side of the law. So Worth 378 00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:47,360 Speaker 1: in Pinkerton had met a way before this, way back 379 00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:50,040 Speaker 1: in the American bar days in Paris. But Worth had 380 00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:53,280 Speaker 1: infinitely more respect for him than he had for guys 381 00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:56,680 Speaker 1: like John Shore of Scotland Yard or for other agencies. 382 00:21:56,720 --> 00:21:59,480 Speaker 1: I mean, partly because they were clearly the only people 383 00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:02,400 Speaker 1: who really knew anything about him, and he felt like 384 00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:04,800 Speaker 1: the Pinkerton's had helped him out a little bit when 385 00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:07,600 Speaker 1: he was in trouble in Belgium. He especially respected the 386 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:11,840 Speaker 1: Pinkerton's strange silence during his Belgian arrest after some bluffing 387 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:14,239 Speaker 1: on both sides, I mean, William Pinkerton, he didn't want 388 00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:17,120 Speaker 1: to seem like he was doing anything shady to Scotland Yard, 389 00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:21,360 Speaker 1: in particular the criminal and the detective. They opened up talks. 390 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:27,040 Speaker 1: Worth actually visited pinkerton Chicago office January twelve and basically 391 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:30,720 Speaker 1: told his whole story. He told Pinkerton quote, now I 392 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:33,720 Speaker 1: am placing myself entirely in your hands. I have never 393 00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:36,159 Speaker 1: done it with a human being before, but I have 394 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:39,680 Speaker 1: implicit confidence in your word that you and yours will 395 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:42,480 Speaker 1: not take advantage of what I say. They talked all 396 00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:45,119 Speaker 1: day and into the night, and they met the next 397 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:47,560 Speaker 1: day and the day after that, and they of course 398 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:50,760 Speaker 1: discussed the Duchess. Worth told Pinkerton that he was sick 399 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:54,240 Speaker 1: and that the lady should return home, but they also 400 00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:57,040 Speaker 1: discussed his career and his life and just kind of 401 00:22:57,080 --> 00:23:00,679 Speaker 1: talking about everything Worth had done. And as soon as 402 00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:04,760 Speaker 1: this epic interview was over, Pinkerton wrote the entire thing down. 403 00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:07,840 Speaker 1: This is, I mean pretty apparently the basis for the 404 00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:11,639 Speaker 1: pamphlet that we've been discussing. And then and maybe like 405 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:14,199 Speaker 1: the cutest thing that could happen, he arranged for a 406 00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:18,480 Speaker 1: fox terrier puppy to be sent to Worth kids, kind 407 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:22,359 Speaker 1: of almost to cement this trusting relationship they were going 408 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:26,280 Speaker 1: to have together so still, though, even though Worth trusted 409 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:30,200 Speaker 1: Pinkerton and vice versa, negotiations really did take a long time. 410 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:34,720 Speaker 1: The Duchess wasn't returned until nineteen o one, when Seymoreland Agnew, 411 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:38,199 Speaker 1: who was Sir William Agnew's son, took a ship to 412 00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:41,920 Speaker 1: the United States and collected it. And it's unknown how 413 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:45,160 Speaker 1: much exactly he paid. But the really strange thing about 414 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:49,320 Speaker 1: the delivery is that while Worth turned the painting over, 415 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:51,159 Speaker 1: you know, he kept hit side of the deal, he 416 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:54,000 Speaker 1: didn't entirely give it up because he was almost certainly 417 00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:59,000 Speaker 1: a passenger aboard Agnew's ship back to England in heavy disguise. 418 00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:01,520 Speaker 1: I think that's a little bit it creepy. I don't know. 419 00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:06,400 Speaker 1: He had ideas about taking it back and decided that 420 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:08,840 Speaker 1: it would be better to have his kids than the painting. 421 00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:10,560 Speaker 1: At this point, well, it was almost like he just 422 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:13,080 Speaker 1: didn't want to be separated from it. He needed to 423 00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:15,680 Speaker 1: at least go back home with her. J pre pomp, 424 00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:18,240 Speaker 1: Morgan bought the picture from the Agnew family, beating out 425 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:21,480 Speaker 1: Senator William Clark of Montana, who was huge at Clark's 426 00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:25,560 Speaker 1: father We Talked Together podcast subject. Morgan didn't display the 427 00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:28,159 Speaker 1: painting outside of his home, and after his death his 428 00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:31,960 Speaker 1: children kept it. When his last grandchild died in it 429 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:34,600 Speaker 1: was taken from her New York City apartment and auctioned 430 00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:37,440 Speaker 1: at Southby's, London, where it was purchased by none other 431 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:40,040 Speaker 1: than the Duke of Devonshire. So it really did finally 432 00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:43,320 Speaker 1: go home after all of those years away, what seventeen 433 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:47,960 Speaker 1: nine two or something like that until timee So with 434 00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:51,520 Speaker 1: some of that money though, from the painting's return, Worth 435 00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:53,719 Speaker 1: was able to buy off his sister in law, who 436 00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:56,879 Speaker 1: was sort of holding his kid's hostage almost by this point, 437 00:24:56,880 --> 00:24:59,480 Speaker 1: in order to get some money out of him. Um 438 00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:02,480 Speaker 1: the kid moved to England to live with their father. 439 00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:05,440 Speaker 1: They lived in London together for a short time, with 440 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:10,720 Speaker 1: Worth and Pinkerton, of course still corresponding regularly. On January 441 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:14,440 Speaker 1: nine two, actually, just a few days after Morgan had 442 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:17,840 Speaker 1: taken the Duchess back to New York City, Worth died 443 00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:21,560 Speaker 1: at fifty six years of age. His teenage son, Harry 444 00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:25,040 Speaker 1: Raymond Jr. That's, you know, obviously a completely made up name, 445 00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:29,720 Speaker 1: moved back to America with his sister and then Pinkerton. 446 00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:31,959 Speaker 1: I mean that relationship that Worth forged with him at 447 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:34,160 Speaker 1: the end really did pay off for his kids because 448 00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:37,840 Speaker 1: Pinkerton helped arrange work for the boy. He secretly passed 449 00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:41,119 Speaker 1: along the proceeds from the agency's pamphlet on Worth to 450 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:44,520 Speaker 1: the two kids, and eventually he even gave worth son 451 00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:47,439 Speaker 1: a job with the detective firm. So there you go. 452 00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:51,200 Speaker 1: You know, Adam Worth Junior essentially working for the Pinkerton 453 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:55,639 Speaker 1: an interesting twist. Conan Doyle also revisited the character Moriarty, 454 00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:59,199 Speaker 1: setting the Valley of Fear before the Final Problem so 455 00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:02,800 Speaker 1: that he could focus on Sherlock's nemesis again. According to 456 00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:05,960 Speaker 1: the Economist, people still reenact the death battle from the 457 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:09,000 Speaker 1: Final Problem, and as we mentioned in the first part 458 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:11,520 Speaker 1: of this podcast, it looks like Moriarty will play a 459 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:14,679 Speaker 1: major part in the new Sherlock Holmes reboot. Definitely. I 460 00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:17,159 Speaker 1: mean we've only seen the first season, but he was 461 00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:21,239 Speaker 1: suggested pretty heavily that last episode throughout and then at 462 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:23,159 Speaker 1: the end it was it was pretty clear that's going 463 00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:25,480 Speaker 1: to be in it, So I guess um listeners in 464 00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:29,359 Speaker 1: England don't don't spoil season two for us. But um 465 00:26:29,359 --> 00:26:34,240 Speaker 1: worth legacy, of course, isn't just the skull headed psycho 466 00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:38,399 Speaker 1: character of Moriarty, though, because in nineteen thirty nine T. S. 467 00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:43,160 Speaker 1: Elliott included a very Moriarty like character called the Mystery 468 00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:46,919 Speaker 1: Cat in his Old Possums Book of Practical Cats, which 469 00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:50,560 Speaker 1: coincidentally was the inspiration for the musical Cats. I mean, 470 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:53,600 Speaker 1: I just think this is like the most hilarious outcome 471 00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:56,880 Speaker 1: for for a guy like Adam Worth. That's one connection 472 00:26:56,920 --> 00:26:58,680 Speaker 1: I would not make. I think I'm really going to 473 00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:00,760 Speaker 1: have to pick up a copy now two of Old 474 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:04,720 Speaker 1: Possum's Book of Practical Cats. But we have one somewhere. Well, 475 00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:06,880 Speaker 1: do you have to bring it to work and let 476 00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:11,040 Speaker 1: me borrow because it looks pretty funny. I'll do that. Well, 477 00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:14,280 Speaker 1: this is all we have for the Saga of Adam Worth. 478 00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:15,920 Speaker 1: But I'm so glad that we did it. We've had 479 00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:18,200 Speaker 1: so many requests for it ever since, as you mentioned, 480 00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:22,080 Speaker 1: ever since we did the Sherlock Holmes episode. Um. And 481 00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:26,679 Speaker 1: it's one that you can't find a ton of articles on, strangely, 482 00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:29,280 Speaker 1: and it really a lot of it is based on 483 00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:33,639 Speaker 1: that biography or the Pinkerton pamphlet, which has kind of 484 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:37,520 Speaker 1: a strange twisted view of the story because Pinkerton is 485 00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:39,360 Speaker 1: a law man, you know, he's got to put that 486 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:42,160 Speaker 1: face forward for everybody. It's got to be like, this 487 00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:44,520 Speaker 1: is a bad criminal and we need to talk about 488 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:47,320 Speaker 1: him that way. But he clearly cared for Worth too, 489 00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:51,040 Speaker 1: and sort of brushes over certain aspects of his life. Well, 490 00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:54,119 Speaker 1: I think both through McIntyre's biography and through that, we 491 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:56,919 Speaker 1: got to see a little bit of the human side 492 00:27:57,080 --> 00:27:59,879 Speaker 1: of Worth two. It wasn't all just crime, and that's 493 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:05,439 Speaker 1: definitely so I love doing these literary inspiration episodes. So 494 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:08,520 Speaker 1: if any of you have more suggestions for those, you know, 495 00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:14,520 Speaker 1: people real life biographies who inspired the creation of some 496 00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:16,840 Speaker 1: literary character, I'd love to hear some of those. You 497 00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:20,639 Speaker 1: could email us at History Podcast at Discovery dot com, 498 00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:24,479 Speaker 1: or you could post on our Facebook or our Twitter 499 00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:27,640 Speaker 1: account at mist in History. 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