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Book The Expressman and the Detective  1874   By  Allan Pinkerton  Original Version

Download or read book The Expressman and the Detective 1874 By Allan Pinkerton Original Version written by Allan Pinkerton and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-22 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allan J. Pinkerton (25 August 1819 - 1 July 1884) was a Scottish American detective and spy, best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.Allan Pinkerton was born in the Gorbals, Glasgow, Scotland, to William Pinkerton and his wife Isobel McQueen on August 25, 1819. The location of the house he was born in is now occupied by the Glasgow Central Mosque. He left school at the age of 10 after his father's death. Pinkerton read voraciously and was largely self-educated. A cooper by trade, Pinkerton was active in the British Chartist movement as a young man. He secretly married Joan Carfrae, a singer, in Glasgow on 13 March 1842. Pinkerton emigrated to the United States in 1842. In 1843 Pinkerton heard of Dundee Township, Illinois, fifty miles northwest of Chicago on the Fox River. He built a cabin and started a cooperage, sending for his wife in Chicago when their cabin was complete. As early as 1844, Pinkerton worked for the Chicago abolitionist leaders, and his Dundee home was a stop on the Underground Railroad. Pinkerton first got interested in criminal detective work while wandering through the wooded groves around Dundee, looking for trees to make barrel staves, when he came across a band of counterfeiters who may have been affiliated with the notorious Banditti of the Prairie. After observing their movements for sometime, he informed the local sheriff who arrested them. This later led to Pinkerton being appointed, in 1849, as the first police detective in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. In 1850, he partnered with Chicago attorney Edward Rucker in forming the North-Western Police Agency, which later became Pinkerton & Co, and finally Pinkerton National Detective Agency, still in existence today as Pinkerton Consulting and Investigations, a subsidiary of Securitas AB. Pinkerton's business insignia was a wide open eye with the caption "We never sleep." As the US expanded in territory, rail transport increased. Pinkerton's agency solved a series of train robberies during the 1850s, first bringing Pinkerton into contact with George McClellan, then Chief Engineer and Vice President of the Illinois Central Railroad, and Abraham Lincoln, the company's lawyer.

Book The Expressman and the Detective

Download or read book The Expressman and the Detective written by Allan Pinkerton and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "All history proves that no one can hug a secret to his breast and live (...) This is especially noticeable in persons who have committed criminal acts." When a trusted employee is suspected of stealing from the Adams Express Company in Alabama, the organization reaches out to the Pinkertons, the world’s first private detective agency. Recounting true events, ‘The Expressman and the Detective’ (1874) tells a fascinating and suspenseful story of an investigation in which all that can prove a person’s guilt is a confession. Allan Pinkerton, the founder of the agency, assigned agents to shadow the suspect, others to gain his trust and he was among the first to hire a female detective. The London Times famously called him "a man at once deeply admirable and quite obnoxious." Allan J. Pinkerton (1819-1884) was a Scottish-American detective and founder of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. He recounted his first big investigation in ‘The Expressman and the Detective.’ A dedicated abolitionist, he offered his Illinois home as a stop on the Underground railway for escaping slaves.

Book The Expressman and the Detective

Download or read book The Expressman and the Detective written by Allan Pinkerton and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-18 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive classic literature collection. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts, We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. Also in books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy. We use 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."All history proves that no one can hug a secret to his breast and live (...) This is especially noticeable in persons who have committed criminal acts." When a trusted employee is suspected of stealing from the Adams Express Company in Alabama, the organization reaches out to the Pinkertons, the world's first private detective agency. Recounting true events, `The Expressman and the Detective' (1874) tells a fascinating and suspenseful story of an investigation in which all that can prove a person's guilt is a confession. Allan Pinkerton, the founder of the agency, assigned agents to shadow the suspect, others to gain his trust and he was among the first to hire a female detective.

Book The Expressman and the Detective Illustrated Edition

Download or read book The Expressman and the Detective Illustrated Edition written by Allan Pinkerton and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-05-24 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "All history proves that no one can hug a secret to his breast and live (...) This is especially noticeable in persons who have committed criminal acts." When a trusted employee is suspected of stealing from the Adams Express Company in Alabama, the organization reaches out to the Pinkertons, the world's first private detective agency. Recounting true events, `The Expressman and the Detective' (1874) tells a fascinating and suspenseful story of an investigation in which all that can prove a person's guilt is a confession. Allan Pinkerton, the founder of the agency, assigned agents to shadow the suspect, others to gain his trust and he was among the first to hire a female detective. The London Times famously called him "a man at once deeply admirable and quite obnoxious."

Book The Expressman and the Detective

Download or read book The Expressman and the Detective written by Allan Pinkerton and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-20 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "All history proves that no one can hug a secret to his breast and live (...) This is especially noticeable in persons who have committed criminal acts." When a trusted employee is suspected of stealing from the Adams Express Company in Alabama, the organization reaches out to the Pinkertons, the world's first private detective agency. Recounting true events, `The Expressman and the Detective' (1874) tells a fascinating and suspenseful story of an investigation in which all that can prove a person's guilt is a confession. Allan Pinkerton, the founder of the agency, assigned agents to shadow the suspect, others to gain his trust and he was among the first to hire a female detective. The London Times famously called him "a man at once deeply admirable and quite obnoxious."

Book The Expressman and the Detective

Download or read book The Expressman and the Detective written by Beyond Words Press and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-21 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "All history proves that no one can hug a secret to his breast and live (...) This is especially noticeable in persons who have committed criminal acts." When a trusted employee is suspected of stealing from the Adams Express Company in Alabama, the organization reaches out to the Pinkertons, the world's first private detective agency. Recounting true events, `The Expressman and the Detective' (1874) tells a fascinating and suspenseful story of an investigation in which all that can prove a person's guilt is a confession. Allan Pinkerton, the founder of the agency, assigned agents to shadow the suspect, others to gain his trust and he was among the first to hire a female detective. The London Times famously called him "a man at once deeply admirable and quite obnoxious."

Book The Expressman And The Detective

Download or read book The Expressman And The Detective written by Beyond Words Press and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-08-21 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "All history proves that no one can hug a secret to his breast and live (...) This is especially noticeable in persons who have committed criminal acts." When a trusted employee is suspected of stealing from the Adams Express Company in Alabama, the organization reaches out to the Pinkertons, the world's first private detective agency. Recounting true events, `The Expressman and the Detective' (1874) tells a fascinating and suspenseful story of an investigation in which all that can prove a person's guilt is a confession. Allan Pinkerton, the founder of the agency, assigned agents to shadow the suspect, others to gain his trust and he was among the first to hire a female detective. The London Times famously called him "a man at once deeply admirable and quite obnoxious."

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  • Author : Allan Pinkerton
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2017-11-10
  • ISBN : 9781979609371
  • Pages : 130 pages

Download or read book The Expressman and the Detective by written by Allan Pinkerton and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-10 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allan J. Pinkerton (25 August 1819 - 1 July 1884) was a Scottish American detective and spy, best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.Allan Pinkerton was born in Gorbals, Glasgow, Scotland, to William Pinkerton and his wife, Isobel McQueen, on August 25, 1819. He left school at the age of 10 after his father's death. Pinkerton read voraciously and was largely self-educated. A cooper by trade, Pinkerton was active in the Scottish Chartist movement as a young man. He secretly married Joan Carfrae (1822-1887) from Duddinston, then a singer, in Glasgow on 13 March 1842.Pinkerton emigrated to the United States in 1842. In 1843 Pinkerton heard of Dundee Township, Illinois, fifty miles northwest of Chicago on the Fox River. He built a cabin and started a cooperage, sending for his wife in Chicago when their cabin was complete. As early as 1844, Pinkerton worked for the Chicago abolitionist leaders, and his Dundee home was a stop on the Underground Railroad.

Book The Expressman and the Detective

Download or read book The Expressman and the Detective written by Allan Pinkerton and published by Belford Brothers. This book was released on 1874 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Molly Maguires and the Detectives

Download or read book The Molly Maguires and the Detectives written by Allan Pinkerton and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-12-30 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To keep the peace in the coal mines, the Pinkerton agency goes to war The Civil War is over, and the Union is rebuilding using the power of coal—black rock dug from deep beneath the Pennsylvania earth by men from all over the globe who are seeking their fortune in America. In the 1870s, the miners are unionizing to fight for better working conditions, but within their ranks lurks a secret society whose aim is not so pure. It calls itself the Mollie Maguires, and its adherents are ready to kill to get what they want. Fearing a bloodbath, the head of one of the coal-mining firms reaches out to Allan Pinkerton, founder of the famous detective agency, and begs him to break up the sinister ring. Pinkerton sends James McParlan undercover among the miners, the first soldier in a three-year battle against the radicals that will change the face of American labor forever. This ebook features a new introduction by Otto Penzler and has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

Book The Detective and the Somnambulist

Download or read book The Detective and the Somnambulist written by Allan Pinkerton and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two narratives written by Allan Pinkerton; highly fictionalized accounts ostensibly or loosely based on actual crime cases.

Book Bucholz and the Detectives

Download or read book Bucholz and the Detectives written by Allan Pinkerton and published by . This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884) was a Scottish detective and spy, best known for creating the Pinkerton Agency, the first detective agency of the United States. Disillusioned by the failure to win universal suffrage, Pinkerton immigrated to the United States in 1842. In 1849, Pinkerton was appointed as the first detective in Chicago. In the 1850s, he partnered with Chicago attorney Edward Rucker in forming the North-Western Police Agency, later known as the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. Prior to his service with the Union Army, he developed several investigative techniques that are still used today. Among them are shadowing and assuming a role . Following the outbreak of the Civil War, Pinkerton served as head of the Union Intelligence Service in 1861-62. Pinkerton produced numerous popular detective books, ostensibly based on his own exploits and those of his agents. Some were published after his death. These works include: The Expressman and the Detective (1874), Bucholz and the Detectives (1880) and The Burglar s Fate and the Detectives (1884).

Book The Greatest Works of Allan Pinkerton

Download or read book The Greatest Works of Allan Pinkerton written by Allan Pinkerton and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-11-02 with total page 1568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully edited Allan Pinkerton collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Table of Contents: The Expressman and the Detective The Somnambulist and the Detective The Murderer and the Fortune Teller The Spiritualists and the Detectives Mississippi Outlaws and the Detectives Don Pedro and the Detectives Poisoner and the Detectives Bucholz and the Detectives The Burglar's Fate and the Detectives The Spy of the Rebellion

Book The Burglar s Fate and the Detectives  Illustrated Edition   Dodo Press

Download or read book The Burglar s Fate and the Detectives Illustrated Edition Dodo Press written by Allan Pinkerton and published by . This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884) was a Scottish detective and spy, best known for creating the Pinkerton Agency, the first detective agency of the United States. Disillusioned by the failure to win universal suffrage, Pinkerton immigrated to the United States in 1842. In 1849, Pinkerton was appointed as the first detective in Chicago. In the 1850s, he partnered with Chicago attorney Edward Rucker in forming the North-Western Police Agency, later known as the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. Prior to his service with the Union Army, he developed several investigative techniques that are still used today. Among them are shadowing and assuming a role . Following the outbreak of the Civil War, Pinkerton served as head of the Union Intelligence Service in 1861-62. Pinkerton produced numerous popular detective books, ostensibly based on his own exploits and those of his agents. Some were published after his death. These works include: The Expressman and the Detective (1874), Bucholz and the Detectives (1880) and The Burglar s Fate and the Detectives (1884).

Book Claude Melnotte as a Detective and Other Stories

Download or read book Claude Melnotte as a Detective and Other Stories written by Allan Pinkerton and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-14 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Book Claude Melnotte as a Detective and Other Stories

Download or read book Claude Melnotte as a Detective and Other Stories written by Allan Pinkerton and published by Toronton : Hunter, Rose. This book was released on 1875 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Greatest Cases of Pinkerton National Detective Agency

Download or read book The Greatest Cases of Pinkerton National Detective Agency written by Allan Pinkerton and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 1162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pinkerton National Detective Agency is a private security guard and detective agency established in the United States by Scotsman Allan Pinkerton in 1850. This edition includes: The Expressman and the Detective The Somnambulist and the Detective The Murderer and the Fortune Teller The Spiritualists and the Detectives Mississippi Outlaws and the Detectives Don Pedro and the Detectives Poisoner and the Detectives Bucholz and the Detectives The Burglar's Fate and the Detectives