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Adam Worth
Adam Worth (18448 January 1902) was a German-born American criminal. Scotland Yard Detective Robert Anderson nicknamed him "the Napoleon of the criminal world",〔Macintyre, p. 7 - Chapter Two: A Fine War〕 and he is commonly referred to as "the Napoleon of Crime."
==Early life==
Adam Worth was born into a poor Jewish family in Germany.〔Nash, p. 258〕〔The American Magazine, p. 211〕 His original surname might have been "Werth".〔Macintyre, p. 6 - Chapter Two: A Fine War〕 When he was five years old, his family moved to the United States, settling in Cambridge, Massachusetts where his father became a tailor.〔Macintyre, p. 7 - Chapter Two: A Fine War〕 In 1854, he ran away from home and moved first to Boston and then in 1860 to New York City. He worked as a clerk in a department store for one month.
When the American Civil War broke out, Worth was 17. He lied about his age and enlisted in the Union army. Worth served in the 2nd New York Heavy Artillery, Battery L (later designated 34th New York Battery) and was promoted to Sergeant in two months. He was wounded in the Second Battle of Bull Run on 30 August 1862 and shipped to a Georgetown Hospital in Washington, D.C. In the hospital, he learned he had been listed as Killed in Action and left.
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