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A forgotten early-20th-century memoir turns a brush with crime and the justice system into a dramatic personal story. Best known for From Boniface to Bank Burglar, this writer left behind a book that reads like confession, protest, and true-crime narrative all at once.
by George M. (George Miles) White
George M. White, also listed as George Miles White, is known from the historical record as the author of From Boniface to Bank Burglar; Or, The Price of Persecution. Library and public-domain catalog records consistently connect that title with his name, and some records also identify him with the alias George Bliss.
The book was originally published in the early 1900s and presents itself as the story of a successful businessman drawn into a bank-burglary case through what White describes as a miscarriage of justice. That mix of personal testimony, crime story, and complaint against the legal system gives the work its unusual energy and has helped keep it in circulation through archives and reprints.
Very little firmly verified biographical information about White appears to be widely available online beyond his authorship of this book and the alias attached to it. Because the record is so thin, it is safest to remember him mainly through the intense, firsthand voice of his surviving memoir.