Rescued? Nothing doing in the mercy line from the Bluebeard of bankruptcy. Illustration shows Bluebeard wearing a hat labeled Bankruptcy and holding in his raised left hand a clock labeled Obligations; he is holding a sword in his right hand and is confronting a woman labeled Railroads who begs for mercy, just as a knight labeled Increased Freight Rates enters from the left. Date 1913 December 17. Rescued? Nothing doing in the mercy line from the Bluebeard of bankruptcy. Illustration shows Bluebeard wearing a hat labeled Bankruptcy and holding in his raised left hand a clock labeled Obligations; he is holding a sword in his right hand and is confronting a woman labeled Railroads who begs for mercy, just as a knight labeled Increased Freight Rates enters from the left. Date 1913 December 17.