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  FROM BONIFACE TO
  BANK BURGLAR

  OR

  THE PRICE OF PERSECUTION


  HOW A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS MAN, THROUGH
  THE MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE, BECAME
  A NOTORIOUS BANK LOOTER


  BY
  GEORGE M. WHITE
  ALIAS GEORGE BLISS


  BELLOWS FALLS, VT.
  TRUAX PRINTING COMPANY
  1905




  COPYRIGHT, 1905,
  BY B. F. SLEEPER, WESTMINSTER, VT.


  Norwood Press
  J. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith Co.
  Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.




PREFACE


While paying the penalty of a last misdeed, I resolved that no more of
life’s precious years should be spent in sowing to the wind and that
my life’s sun should not set in eternal night; and I have been able to
keep my resolution. In the awful moments of lonesomeness in the prison
cell, I conceived the idea of publishing my life history in so far as
I could make it interesting to the financial world and general public.
Many hours of solitude, while others slept, I devoted to rummaging
through the past in search of facts, dating them from the innocent days
of my young manhood and resurrecting them from period to period, until
I succeeded in compiling a life history which, I sincerely trust, will
prove not only a helper to those who have the care of great sums of
money dev