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Author : Allan Pinkerton
Publisher : Rose
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Crime
ISBN : OCLC:5915262
Author : Allan Pinkerton
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0265472466
Excerpt from The Rail-Road Forger and the Detectives For the personal reasons mentioned I have also thought best to disguise certain localities under invented names. None of those substitutions, however, are such as to impair in the least the completeness of the chronicle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Allan Pinkerton
Publisher : Rose-Belford
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Criminal investigation
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU58328041
Author : Allan Pinkerton
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1019712988
This thrilling book tells the story of a notorious railroad forger and the detective who pursued him. With vivid descriptions of the chase and the criminal underworld of 19th century America, this book is an exciting read for anyone interested in true crime or detective stories. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Allan Pinkerton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Detectives
ISBN : HARVARD:32044004713475
Author : Allan Pinkerton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Detectives
ISBN : UOM:39015031447595
Author : Allan Pinkerton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Detectives
ISBN : HARVARD:32044004988861
Author : Allan Pinkerton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : HARVARD:HWNZQ7
Author : Allan Pinkerton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Criminal investigation
ISBN : UCR:31210015279944
Author : Allan Pinkerton
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781465606143
The southern and border states, since the close of the war of the rebellion, have been the frequent scenes of extensive and audacious robberies. This has been largely owing to the sparsely-settled condition of certain districts, to the disorder and lawlessness generated by the war, and to the temptations offered by the carelessness of many persons having large sums intrusted to their care in transit through lonely and desolate localities. The express companies have always been favorite objects of attack by thieves of every grade, from the embezzling cashier to the petty sneak-thief, and some of the operations connected with the detection of this class of criminals are among the most difficult and dangerous that have ever been intrusted to me. Probably a no more reckless and desperate body of men were ever banded together in a civilized community than those who were brought to my attention in 1871 by the Southern Express Company's officers in Memphis; and I consider the successful termination of my efforts in this case as of the greatest value to the people of the South and West. The whole affair was conducted with such a limited force, and under such adverse circumstances, that I take pride in here recording the history of the affair and my connection with it. Though I maintained a general supervision of the operation, my eldest son, William A. Pinkerton, was the person having immediate charge of the matter, and to his energy, perseverance, and sagacity is mainly attributable our success. Some time in the latter part of July, 1871, an express messenger on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad was overpowered by three men at Moscow, Kentucky, and his safe was robbed of about sixteen hundred dollars. The manner of effecting the robbery was a very bold one, showing the presence of men of experience in crime. The loss was not heavy, but the company made every effort to discover the robbers, in the hope of bringing them to a severe punishment as a warning to other criminals. In spite, however, of the efforts of two of my men, who were immediately sent to the scene of the robbery, the guilty parties escaped into the almost impenetrable swamps along the Mississippi River, and the chase was reluctantly abandoned, as it was impossible to tell where they would come out or cross the river. The amount stolen was not sufficiently large to warrant the expenditure of much time or money in the pursuit of the thieves, and my men were soon wholly withdrawn from the operation. In order, however, to guard against a repetition of such a raid, an extra man was placed in each express car to act as guard to the regular messenger. It was considered that two men, well armed, ought to be surely able to protect the company against further loss, and everything ran smoothly until October 21, 1871. At this time, the money shipments by express were very heavy, as a rule, and orders were given that special care should be exercised by all the employés having money packages in charge.
Author : Allan Pinkerton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951002044785R
Author : S. Paul O'Hara
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421420578
The fascinating story of the most notorious detective agency in US history. Between 1865 and 1937, Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency was at the center of countless conflicts between capital and labor, bandits and railroads, and strikers and state power. Some believed that the detectives were protecting society from dangerous criminal conspiracies; others thought that armed Pinkertons were capital’s tool to crush worker dissent. Yet the image of the Pinkerton detective also inspired romantic and sensationalist novels, reflected shifting ideals of Victorian manhood, and embodied a particular kind of rough frontier justice. Inventing the Pinkertons examines the evolution of the agency as a pivotal institution in the cultural history of American monopoly capitalism. Historian S. Paul O’Hara intertwines political, social, and cultural history to reveal how Scottish-born founder Allan Pinkerton insinuated his way to power and influence as a purveyor of valuable (and often wildly wrong) intelligence in the Union cause. During Reconstruction, Pinkerton turned his agents into icons of law and order in the Wild West. Finally, he transformed his firm into a for-rent private army in the war of industry against labor. Having begun life as peddlers of information and guardians of mail bags, the Pinkertons became armed mercenaries, protecting scabs and corporate property from angry strikers. O’Hara argues that American capitalists used the Pinkertons to enforce new structures of economic and political order. Yet the infamy of the Pinkerton agent also gave critics and working communities a villain against which to frame their resistance to the new industrial order. Ultimately, Inventing the Pinkertons is a gripping look at how the histories of American capitalism, industrial folklore, and the nation-state converged.
Author : Jay Bonansinga
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780762775590
A thrilling historical account of Allan Pinkerton’s pivotal role in the Civil War and the birth of the Secret Service Scottish immigrant Allan Pinkerton is best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, which gained renown for solving train robberies in the 1850s and battling the labor movement in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. But the central drama of his career, and the focus of this book, was his work as protector of President Abraham Lincoln and head of a network of Union spies (including himself!) who posed as Confederate soldiers and sympathizers in a deadly cat-and-mouse game. As here told in riveting prose by author Jay Bonansinga, Pinkerton’s politics and abolitionist sympathies drew the attention of supporters of presidential incumbent Abraham Lincoln—and Pinkerton was hired to act as his bodyguard. Pinkerton was asked to organize the U.S. government’s first “Secret Service,” and during the Civil War he managed a network of spies who worked behind confederate lines and tackled espionage at the highest levels in Washington. By war’s end, the agency’s reputation was so well established that it was often hired by the government to perform many of the same duties today assigned to the Secret Service, the FBI, the CIA, and, most recently, the Department of Homeland Security. -- Bonansigna is also the author of the novelization of the huge hit television series The Walking Dead, a book titled The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor.
Author : Allan Pinkerton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Detectives
ISBN : HARVARD:32044014347009
Author : Curtis Stokes
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780870139581
The terrorist attacks against U.S. targets on September 11, 2001, and the subsequent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, sparked an intense debate about "human rights." According to contributors to this provocative book, the discussion of human rights to date has been far too narrow. They argue that any conversation about human rights in the United States must include equal rights for all residents. Essays examine the historical and intellectual context for the modern debate about human rights, the racial implications of the war on terrorism, the intersection of racial oppression, and the national security state. Others look at the Pinkerton detective agency as a forerunner of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the role of Africa in post–World War II American attempts at empire-building, and the role of immigration as a human rights issue.
