Austin Bidwell: The Victorian fraudster who shook the Bank of England with the most daring forgery the world had known 21.08.2015 02:30 "independent.co.uk" The two Americans who were jammed into the cramped cell of Havana's military jail had been adversaries for years – but only now, in the spring of 1873, had they finally caught up with each other. And the circumstances were extraordinary.
