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Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 949, 10 July 1877, Page 3

Tricks of a Noted Convict. —Two years ago, Gieorge Bidwell, the notorious Bank of England forger, was tranferred to Dartmoor prison. Soon after, he was apparently seized with paralysis of his lower limbs, and has ever since been an inmate of the infirmary. Lately, a new governor was appointed to Dartmoor, who was sceptical as to the genuineness of Bidwell’s illness. On Friday, therefore, he was ordered to get up and dress, but positively refused. Thereupon he was carried down to a cold cell, and left there unclothed until lie chose to dress. Within an hour he jumped up and put on his clothes, and. eventually a perfect cure had been effected ; but when he was being stripped a curious discovery was made. Beneath bis armpits were found a tame mouse and a rat. These, lie confessed, he had caught in the infirmary and had petted and fed with crumbs for many months. The affrighted little animals seemed quite as much distressed at being deprived of their strange hiding-place as Bidwell was at parting with his four-footed friends. To Practise upon the Credulity of the public to the prejudice of its health is the worst form of charlatantry. This is being again attempted by scampish importers and vendors of bad liquor, flavored with some cheap drug or extract, and asserted to be similar to or the same as Udolpho Wolfe’s Schiedam: Aromatic Schnapps, a medicated beverage of the highest standing.— [Advt.]