With Newgate becoming a city instead of just a town, it attracted more people from other dimensions to come there.  Most were decent individuals that had no bad intentions.  But sometimes a criminal would shift to our dimension and prove to be a problem.  One such individuals was Mans Horvanell. 

Up until then, there were few background checks on people who shifted to this dimension and used the transporter facility below the streets of Newgate.   When Mans came to Newgate he had already killed 12 people in seven different dimensions.  But since he was a shape shifter, he could change his identity at will and get away with his crimes. 

Mans met Vellon Morehans who wasn’t exactly the most upstanding citizen of Newgate.   He use a double mind so he could lie to others and they didn’t know it.   He was mainly active on the outside in the cities like Boston, Portland, Hartford, and even New York City.  With the post-war boom helping to make people rich and the Transcontinental Railroad about to make people even richer, both Vellon and Mans took advantage of a lot of people. 

One big advantage Mans had was that he had just robbed his last victim of gold and gems worth in the outside over $1 million.  So he was able to spread the wealth around and set up a dummy company that allowed him to swindle investors of their life’s savings.  It was a company that made a bit of everything.  It was supposed to be a gun manufacturer, a carriage maker, a piano and musical instrument maker, a furniture maker, and a book publisher.  It was called Mansfield Manufacturing. 

Mans had changed into a man who was ten years older and twenty pounds heavier named Henry Mansfield.  He even had a Civil War battle history and the uniform and medals to “prove” it.  Most of the things he “manufactured” were from other dimensions that were going to be thrown away.  They were at times better than what was made in this dimension and some of the differences were called innovations he had come out with.  But only about 10% of the things he sold were made in the factory he leased in Brooklyn.  The rest of the things would have been destroyed if he had not bought them for pennies on the dollar or sometimes was paid to take away.