A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of
Pinkerton’s National
Detective Agency
Part A: Administrative File, 1857–1999
A UPA Collection
from
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Research Collections in American Legal History
Pinkerton’s National
Detective Agency
Part A: Administrative File, 1857–1999
Guide by
Ariel W. Simmons
A UPA Collection from
7500 Old Georgetown Road ● Bethesda, MD 20814-6126
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency [microform] / project editors, Christian James
and Daniel Lewis.
microfilm reels. –– (Research collections in American legal history)
Filmed from the holdings of the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress,
Washington, D.C.
Summary: Reproduces company records and documents which provide a history of the
agency and its business practices and policies and shed light on some of America’s most
famous criminal cases.
Accompanied by a printed guide compiled by Ariel W. Simmons, entitled: A guide to
the microfilm edition of Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency.
ISBN 978-0-88692-874-2 (part A) –– ISBN 978-0-88692-880-3 (part B)
1. Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency––Archives. 2. Private investigators––United
States––History––Sources. 3. Law enforcement––United States––History––Sources.
4. Crime––United States––History––Sources. I. James, Christian, 1981– II. Lewis,
Daniel, 1972– III. Simmons, Ariel W., 1978– IV. Title: Guide to the microfilm edition of
Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency. V. Series.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Scope and Content Note .............................................................................................
Source Note..................................................................................................................
Editorial Note ..............................................................................................................
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Reel Index
Reel 1
Agency History and Publicity.................................................................................
1
Reel 2
Agency History and Publicity cont.–Cases and Clients..........................................
2
Reel 3
Civil War.................................................................................................................
3
Reel 4
Civil War cont.–Employees ....................................................................................
4
Reels 5–7
Employees cont.......................................................................................................
6
Reel 8
Employees cont.–Financial File..............................................................................
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Reel 9
Financial File cont.–Legal File ...............................................................................
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Reel 10
Legal File cont. .......................................................................................................
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Reel 11
Letterhead and Logo–Policies, Procedure, and Training........................................
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Reels 12–14
Policies, Procedure, and Training cont. ..................................................................
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Reel 15
Policies, Procedure, and Training cont.–Reward Books.........................................
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Reel 16
Reward Books cont. ................................................................................................
21
Reel 17
Reward Books cont.–Siringo, Charles A., Lawsuits...............................................
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Reel 18
Siringo, Charles A., Lawsuits cont.–Wm. J. Burns Agency, improper conduct.....
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Reel 19–21
Wm. J. Burns Agency, improper conduct cont.......................................................
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Principal Correspondents Index................................................................................
Subject Index...............................................................................................................
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SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE
During its colorful 150-year history, Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency, the oldest
company of private investigators in the United States, pursued some of the nation’s most
notorious criminals including Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, Jesse James, Alfred Brady, John
Dillinger, and countless others. Allan Pinkerton founded the company in the 1850s. One of his
first contracts was to provide protective services for the Illinois Central Railroad, whose legal
counsel was Abraham Lincoln. After Lincoln became president in 1861, Pinkerton formed a
secret service to protect the president and to provide intelligence for the Union Army. After the
Civil War, Pinkerton’s sons, Robert and William, expanded the company. By the early twentieth
century, the Pinkertons had several thousand employees and as many clients and operated offices
throughout the United States. Robert Pinkerton died in 1907, and William ran the company alone
until his own death in 1923. Robert’s son Allan oversaw operations until his death in 1930 at
which point Robert A. Pinkerton II, great-grandson of the founder, led the company through the
1960s.
Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency, Part A: Administrative File, 1857–1999 is
organized in alphabetical order by subject, covering agency history, employee files, training
materials, and prominent lawsuits and investigations the agency was involved in, as well as many
other topics. The files include letters, telegrams, reports, job applications, reward notices,
newspaper clippings, complete book manuscripts, and transcripts of testimony hearings. The
majority of materials date from the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. The
Pinkertons had branch offices throughout the country, but many of the documents relate to
activities in New England, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Colorado. The Pinkertons are the primary
correspondents in the collection and because the sons’ names were never modified by II or Jr., it
was impossible to consistently identify the subjects. Other frequent correspondents include
agency officials George D. Bangs, Ralph Dudley, Edward S. Gaylor, and Asher Rosseter.
Many of the documents reinforce the romantic image of a hardboiled detective in the
mold of Dashiell Hammett’s Sam Spade or the Continental Operative, characters inspired by his
years with the Pinkertons. Operatives filed daily reports with their home office, which were
typed up and sent to the clients. These reports read in the dry, to-the-point style of a detective
novel. In 1908 famed detective James McParland was charged with investigating one of the
agency’s own, superintendent H. Frank Cary, for embezzlement and suspected selling of
Pinkerton information to the Western Federation of Miners. An excerpt from his lengthy report
reads as follows:
[H. Frank Cary] said “Well, so far as regards that $594.00 deposited in March, 1907, that
did not come from the funds of the Western Federation, but it came about in way which I
could never discuss while I am in the Agency.” I said: “Well, you are no longer in the
Agency; you are discharged and I wish you right now to deliver us to me your keys.” He
said: “What! Am I discharged?” I replied: “Yes, what could you expect.” He said
“Won’t you allow me to resign?,” to which I replied: “No, I do not allow a man to resign
who has admitted himself to be a thief and a forger and when conclusive evidence proves
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him to be a traitor. You are not fit for the company of a dog. A man of your character
should be killed and your carcass thrown to the dogs and if I killed you, Mr. Cary, in this
room this minute I would not consider I would have to ask the forgiveness of God
Almighty for doing so.” He immediately handed over the keys (Reel 4, Frames 0979–
0980).
The glory days of the Wild West are also captured in this collection, in the manuscript for
The Pinkerton Story, written by James D. Horan and Harold Swiggert in close collaboration with
the agency, and the manuscripts by former operative Charles A. Siringo. The Pinkertons blocked
Siringo’s books through court orders. Draft copies and notes of The Pinkerton Story, written in
1950, fill the first reels of the collection and demonstrate the agency’s active interest in shaping
its own history. Each chapter was returned with detailed notes, with special attention paid to the
sections on labor union investigations—Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency hoped to reframe
the events that contributed to its reputation for strikebreaking. The agency preferred to focus on
other stories, particularly Allan Pinkerton’s foiling of the alleged plot to assassinate presidentelect Abraham Lincoln in Baltimore, en route to his inauguration ceremony. After agency
operatives learned of the plot, Pinkerton personally met with Lincoln and devised a plan to get
the future president to the District of Columbia unharmed. His strategies included cutting all
telegraph wires to Baltimore to prevent conspirators from communicating with one another and
assigning the first woman operative, Kate Warne, to accompany Lincoln undercover on the train.
(Much more about the assassination plot can be found in the Civil War files, on Reel 3).
Forty years before the publication of The Pinkerton Story, Charles Siringo recounted
many of the same adventures. Siringo retired in 1907 after a storied career with the agency and
set to writing his memoirs, reproduced in this collection on Reel 18. His first book, originally
titled Pinkerton’s Cowboy Detective, contained many references to Pinkerton agents and jobs.
After years of litigation, direct references to the agency were deleted and the book was published
as A Cowboy Detective (this collection contains the original, unedited manuscript). The process
was repeated with Two Evil Isms: Pinkertonism and Anarchism, and Riata and Spurs, in the
1910s. Both Riata and Cowboy Detective were flattering to the Pinkertons. Two Evil Isms,
however, alleged that not all of the Pinkerton assignments were above board. Controversy aside,
Siringo’s exploits as an agency operative in the outlaw West no doubt thrilled his readers.
Always an undercover man, the cowboy detective met Henry “Billy the Kid” McCarty and
provided inside information that led to the capture and killing of Harvey “Kid Curry” Logan.
During the Coeur D’Alene, Idaho, miner’s strike in 1892, Siringo’s cover was blown. Cornered
by a lynch mob, he “sawed a hole through the floor in a rear room and got close to mother earth”
(Reel 18, Frames 0716–0717).
The collection abounds with excitement and adventure, but there is also a practical
business side to the documents. The Policies, Procedure, and Training documents (Reels 11–15)
demonstrate how, by the 1920s and 30s, operatives were as much salesmen as detectives. The
files describe many types of business in which local branches might find financial success,
including employee background checks, insurance claim investigations, security guard services,
and a wide variety of “inspection services,” where operatives posed as customers of hotels,
trains, or department stores and made note of the service they received and the general character
of the employees. In addition to guiding the operatives through the sales pitch for these services,
the files offer detailed instructions for conducting the investigations, from what meals to order
through room service to the questions an operative might ask of a housekeeper. The folders
cover traditional detective work as well, providing the researcher with the materials an operative
working his first arson case might rely upon in his investigations. It is fascinating to read the
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standard procedures for collecting evidence, witness testimony, and confessions that would hold
up to scrutiny during a criminal trial, especially in the context of modern popular interest in
criminal procedure and crime scene investigation.
The Employee files reveal other aspects of early twentieth century corporate America
(Reels 4–8). While some folders hold the bare minimum of information—perhaps the
operative’s picture or a salary increase request—many of the files reveal intimate details of the
ups and downs of a man’s career, health, family life, and death. The documents demonstrate the
free hand the “principals” had in running the company, unfettered by human resources or legal
departments. This attitude is captured in a letter from Robert A. Pinkerton to William A.
Pinkerton written in 1905:
I write to advise you as to the condition of Mr. C. S. Donnelly, formerly my
stenographer, and of late years a detective in the office, who lost his three children by fire
in his house.… I am going ahead and paying all the expenses to give them a start again. I
have paid the funeral expenses and will pay for such clothing as they require in order to
start properly.
I know you will agree with me that this is a case where we can follow out our
ideas about extending such charity as we may desire to give from the business to our
deserving employees who require it.
This was such a horrible catastrophe and I can’t hardly think of it (Reel 5,
Frame 0610).
Robert A. Pinkerton’s letter makes clear the Pinkerton family’s personal interest in its
employees. Such was the case of Philip McMahon, who began his career with the agency in
1893 at the age of 15, working as an office boy. The earliest entries recount a letter the young
boy misplaced, causing George D. Bangs to reassure McMahon’s mother that he expected a
lesson was learned and Bangs had no intentions of firing McMahon over the mistake. McMahon
moved up over the next ten years, becoming first a stenographer and then a clerk, before he left
the agency to battle tuberculosis in a sanitarium in upstate New York. The principals kept tabs
on McMahon, sending letters and enclosing small sums of money.
When McMahon recovered, the Pinkertons went to great efforts to find him a new
position. Allan Pinkerton wrote to James McParland in the Denver office in 1915, emphasizing
his personal investment in finding McMahon a job. When McParland replied that the Denver
office had no need for a clerk, Pinkerton suggested McMahon could work as a shadow man or do
“light investigations.” McParland countered that a man in McMahon’s condition would be
limited to surveillance work only on pleasant, sunny days. Once McMahon arrived in Denver,
McParland accompanied him to the doctor for a full physical and submitted a detailed report on
the state of McMahon’s bronchial tubes. It is in contrast to the menacing McMahon of the H.
Frank Cary investigation.
McMahon went on to have a long career with the agency, though his health was a
constant concern. The records go on to detail his daughter’s small pox, as well as a divorce that
left him devastated and abusing alcohol. Years later, in 1960, a quietly retired McMahon was
beaten to death during a robbery at the age of 82. In a final, surprising twist the assailant, who
was apprehended in part due to agency interest in the case, claimed self-defense on the grounds
that McMahon had made a homosexual advance upon him. Such are the life stories that emerge
from the employee files, amidst the job applications and performance reviews.
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The Pinkerton National Detective Agency is not the only detective firm covered in the
files. Several folders are dedicated to the 1905 case Pinkerton v. Pinkerton. The agency sued a
scam organization using the name Pinkerton’s U.S. Detective Agency, for copyright
infringement. The U.S. Detective Agency advertised its correspondence school, which offered
no course work, in popular publications of the day. For a sizable fee students received a
“certificate of membership, star, and letter of credential, etc.” and were told to introduce
themselves to local law firms and corporations, and to remit 25 percent of any earnings to the
home office. The introductory materials add, “If you should secure a big case that you think you
cannot handle successfully alone, drop us a line…” (Reel 9, Frame 0628). The files suggest
quite a few naïve men believed they were working for the famous Pinkertons, only to discover
they had been conned out of their money and were now under police investigation for operating
without a license.
The collection concludes with the files on a legitimate competitor, albeit one under
investigation for misconduct. The folders on Reels 18–21 contain transcripts of hearings held in
the late 1910s on the business practices of the William J. Burns International Detective Agency.
The agency was accused of employing known criminals, unethical client selection (working both
sides of the same case), and breaking a variety of laws in the course of their investigations.
In addition to outlaws of the Wild West, training procedures, employee management, and
rival businesses the documents contain a wealth of material on labor unions, organized crime
rings, national security services during World War II, the Communist scare, white collar crime,
jewelry and safe robberies, as well as decades of entertaining wanted posters. The
Administrative File of Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency is a rich resource for researchers
studying the history of law enforcement, labor history, business practices of the first company of
private investigators, and some of the nation’s most famous criminal cases. Scholars may be
interested in other collections filmed by LexisNexis including Letters Received by the Attorney
General, Records of the Wickersham Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement, Parts 1
and 2, Records of President Johnson’s Commission on Law Enforcement, Part 1: Commission
Correspondence and Memoranda, Department of Justice Investigative Files, Parts 1–3, and
Surveillance of Radicals in the United States, 1917–1941.
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SOURCE NOTE
LexisNexis microfilmed this collection from the records of Pinkerton’s National
Detective Agency held by the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress,
Washington, D.C.
EDITORIAL NOTE
The documents in Part A come from the Administrative File, 1857–1999 in boxes
20 through folder 5 of box 68 of the records of Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency.
Several items that are in the original collection have been omitted from this microfilm.
Within individual folders, LexisNexis filmed all materials with the exception of
copyrighted items and exact duplicates. In order to comply with Library of Congress
regulations, LexisNexis did not microfilm overly fragile items and bound volumes. In
addition, LexisNexis did not microfilm oversize items and other documents previously
microfilmed by the Library of Congress.
LexisNexis did not microfilm the following folders, with the reason for the omission
noted in brackets:
● Box 20, Folder: Address Books, agency officials, n.d. [bound volumes]
● Box 23, Folder: Cipher example and analysis, n.d. [copyright]
● Box 24, Folder: Photographs, positive prints, and negatives, and illustrations, n.d.
[duplicates]
● Box 24, Folder: Lincoln, Abraham—Newspaper and magazine articles and related
material, 1868, 1925, 1950–1965, and n.d. [copyright]
● Box 25, Folder: Code names, operatives and informants, Vol. 1 1904 [bound
volume]
● Box 26, Folder: Code names, operatives and informants, Vol. 2-3, 1904, n.d [bound
volumes]
● Box 36, Folders: General Account Fund [oversize]
● Box 37, Folders: Ledgers of employee time, payroll, and uncollected accounts
[oversize]
● Box 37 Folder: Payroll list, 1899–1900 [bound volume and oversize]
● Boxes 38–41 Index and card files, n.d. [bound volumes]
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● Box 44, Folder 3–Box 48, Folder 4, Letterpress copybooks and miscellaneous
reports [previously microfilmed by the Library of Congress.]
● Box 48, Folder: National Bureau of Criminal Identification, 1922–1923, 1963,
1968 [bound volume]
● Box 49, Folder: Photographs, 1927, 1960, n.d. [duplicates]
● Box 62, Folder: Collective bargaining, 1949 [bound volume]
● Box 62, Folders: Communism 1934–1936, 1947, 1956, n.d. (3 of 4 and 4 of 4)
[bound volumes]
● Box 63, Folder: Philadelphia, Pa., poison ring, 1922, 1939–1940, 1949 (2 of 2)
[copyrighted and fragile items]
● Box 67, Folders 1–6: William J. Burns International Detective Agency,
investigations of improper conduct, Newspaper and magazine articles, 1911 [copyrighted
and fragile items]
● Box 68, Folders 1–2: William J. Burns International Detective Agency,
investigations of improper conduct, Newspaper and magazine articles, 1912–1919, n.d.
[copyrighted and fragile items]
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REEL INDEX
The following index is a listing of the folders that compose Pinkerton’s National
Detective Agency, Part A: Administrative File, 1857–1999. The four-digit number on the
far left is the frame number at which a particular file folder begins. This is followed by
the file title and the date(s) of the file. Substantive issues are highlighted under the
heading Major Topics, as are prominent correspondents under the heading Principal
Correspondents. Topics and correspondents are listed in the order in which they appear
on the film, and each one is listed only once per folder.
Reel 1
Frame No.
0001
0087
0120
0291
0475
0672
Agency History and Publicity: General, 1875, 1881–1887, 1934–1968, n.d.
Major Topic: Allan Pinkerton I biography.
Agency History and Publicity: Horan, James D., and Howard Swiggett, “The
Pinkerton Story,” Book Draft, Typescript, 1950 [1 of 6].
Agency History and Publicity: Horan, James D., and Howard Swiggett, “The
Pinkerton Story,” Book Draft, Typescript, 1950 [2 of 6].
Major Topics: Railroad robbery; pursuit of the Reno brothers gang; raid on
New Albany, Ind.; Levi and Hillary Farrington; Burrow brothers gang;
Oliver Curtis Perry.
Agency History and Publicity: Horan, James D., and Howard Swiggett, “The
Pinkerton Story,” Book Draft, Typescript, 1950 [3 of 6].
Major Topics: Alleged discovery by Allan Pinkerton of plot to assassinate
Abraham Lincoln in Baltimore, Md., 1861; personal security measures
directed by Pinkerton for Lincoln’s protection.
Agency History and Publicity: Horan, James D., and Howard Swiggett, “The
Pinkerton Story,” Book Draft, Typescript, 1950 [4 of 6].
Major Topics: Labor unions; James McParland undercover operation with the
Molly Maguires (crime organization); Jack Kehoe criminal career;
homicide of Gomer Jones; Adam Worth criminal career; London, United
Kingdom; homicide; poison.
Agency History and Publicity: Horan, James D., and Howard Swiggett, “The
Pinkerton Story,” Book Draft, Typescript, 1950 [5 of 6].
Major Topics: Pinkerton operatives gun battle with striking workers in
Homestead, Pa., 1892; communism in labor unions; horse racing;
Jewelers’ Security Alliance; Francis P. Dimaio organized crime
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Frame No.
investigation; Marion Hedgepeth criminal career; Herman Mudgett
criminal career.
0773 Agency History and Publicity: Horan, James D., and Howard Swiggett, “The
Pinkerton Story,” Book Draft, Typescript, 1950 [6 of 6].
Major Topics: Bombing assassination of Frank Steunenberg, committed by
Harry Orchard (born Albert Horsley); Orchard confession to James
McParland; Western Federation of Miners; Clarence Darrow; bank and
jewelry robberies.
0861 Agency History and Publicity: Correspondence and Notes: March 3, 1950–
September 19, 1950.
Major Topic: Pinkerton operatives gun battle with striking workers in
Homestead, Pa., 1892.
Principal Correspondents: Ralph Dudley; Howard Swiggett.
Reel 2
0001 Agency History and Publicity: Correspondence and Notes: October 3, 1950–
Undated.
Major Topics: The Pinkerton Story (book); personal security services; filing
system; black operatives; operative hiring guidelines; Pinkerton operatives
gun battle with striking workers in Homestead, Pa., 1892.
Principal Correspondent: Ralph Dudley.
0117 American Banker’s Association, 1894–1915.
Major Topics: Forgery; bank robbery; railroad robbery; Wild Bunch gang;
bank protection services.
0189 Board of Directors: 1925, n.d.
Major Topic: Death of Allan Pinkerton, 1930.
0241 Board of Directors: 1926, n.d.
Major Topics: Stockholder dividends; cessation of business within Utah.
Principal Correspondent: Allan Pinkerton.
0385 Board of Directors: 1927.
Major Topic: Stockholder dividends.
0476 Board of Directors: 1928–1930.
Major Topic: Stockholder dividends.
0578 Branch Offices: Business Cards, 1897–1922, n.d [1 of 2].
0611 Branch Offices: Business Cards, 1897–1922, n.d [2 of 2].
0647 Branch Offices: Lists, 1971, n.d. (1 of 2).
Major Topic: Branch office locations.
0740 Branch Offices: Lists, 1971, n.d. (2 of 2).
Major Topic: Branch office locations.
0858 Business Announcements, Notices, Advertisements, and Logos, 1879, n.d.
Major Topic: Public security services.
0882 Cases and Clients, Miscellaneous Reports, 1881–1899, 1948, 1961, n.d.
Major Topics: Investigation of Bakewell and Mullins (statue manufacturers)
employees, Salem, Ohio; women operatives; investigation of Mrs. George
Fredericks and Rose A. Sharp; prostitution; assault with carbolic acid;
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Frame No.
investigation of Joseph Simms for robbery of Frank Haffa Jewelry Store,
D.C.; investigation of Joe Rogers in Spinney, Colo.; railroads.
Principal Correspondent: Francis P. Dimaio.
Reel 3
0001
0069
0145
0221
0337
0357
0423
Civil War—“Baltimore Plot” to Assassinate Lincoln: Correspondence, 1866,
1891–1893, 1938–1950 [Agency discussion and document search].
Principal Correspondents: Robert A. Pinkerton; Henry Sanford; Norman J.
Gould; Ralph Dudley.
Civil War—“Baltimore Plot” to Assassinate Lincoln: Essay, Incomplete
Draft and Notes, n.d [1 of 2].
Major Topics: Alleged discovery by Allan Pinkerton of plot to assassinate
Abraham Lincoln in Baltimore, Md., 1861; personal security measures
directed by Pinkerton for Lincoln’s protection; claims of John A.
Kennedy, General Superintendent of the New York Police, regarding
Lincoln assassination plot.
Principal Correspondent: Allan Pinkerton.
Civil War—“Baltimore Plot” to Assassinate Lincoln: Essay, Incomplete
Draft and Notes, n.d [2 of 2].
Major Topics: Philadelphia, Wilmington, & Baltimore Railroad; national
security forces in Baltimore, Md.; alleged discovery by Allan Pinkerton of
plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln in Baltimore, Md., 1861; personal
security measures directed by Pinkerton for Lincoln’s protection.
Civil War—“Baltimore Plot” to Assassinate Lincoln: Newspaper and
Magazine Articles and Related Material, 1861 1872, 1887–1894 [1 of 2].
Major Topics: Alleged discovery by Allan Pinkerton of plot to assassinate
Abraham Lincoln in Baltimore, Md., 1861; personal security measures
directed by Pinkerton for Lincoln’s protection; Philadelphia, Wilmington,
& Baltimore Railroad; claims of John A. Kennedy, General
Superintendent of the New York Police, regarding Lincoln assassination
plot.
Principal Correspondents: S. M. Felton; N. B. Judd; William Sterns; H. F.
Kenney.
Civil War—“Baltimore Plot” to Assassinate Lincoln: Newspaper and
Magazine Articles and Related Material, 1906, 1919, 1930 [2 of 2].
Major Topics: Alleged discovery by Allan Pinkerton of plot to assassinate
Abraham Lincoln in Baltimore, Md., 1861; personal security measures
directed by Pinkerton for Lincoln’s protection.
Civil War—Booth, John Wilkes, 1895, 1937–1938, 1964, n.d.
Major Topic: John Wilkes Booth artifacts.
Principal Correspondents: Ralph Dudley; G. S. Bryan.
Civil War—Greenhow, Rose O’Neal, Confederate Spy, 1911, 1930–1946,
1964, n.d.
Major Topic: Surveillance and arrest of Rose O’Neal Greenhow.
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Frame No.
0442
0539
0573
0580
0619
0691
0709
0755
0781
Civil War—Lincoln, Abraham: Correspondence, Notes, and Essay Drafts,
1863–1865, 1934–1940, n.d.
Major Topics: Assassination of Abraham Lincoln; alleged discovery by Allan
Pinkerton of plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln in Baltimore, Md., 1861;
personal security measures directed by Pinkerton for Lincoln’s protection;
Philadelphia, Wilmington, & Baltimore Railroad; Allan Pinkerton
biographical information.
Principal Correspondents: Abraham Lincoln; Allan Pinkerton; Robert A.
Pinkerton; Ralph Dudley.
Civil War—U.S. Secret Service: Correspondence, Including Copies and
Transcripts, 1861–1864, 1894, 1902, 1951.
Major Topics: Espionage; Confederate troop movements; Pryce Lewis.
Civil War—U.S. Secret Service: Field Report to Army Headquarters,
Washington, D.C., Extracts, 1862.
Civil War—U.S. Secret Service: Newspaper and Magazine Articles and
Related Material [1908–1909, 1949].
Major Topics: Espionage; Theodore Roosevelt establishment of Bureau of
Investigation; George H. Bangs biographical information.
Civil War—U.S. Secret Service: Notes, n.d.
Major Topics: Espionage; Pryce Lewis.
Civil War—U.S. Secret Service: Photographs, Positive Prints and Negatives,
1862–1863, n.d.
Civil War—Warne, Kate, 1951, n.d.
Major Topics: Women operatives; alleged discovery by Allan Pinkerton of
plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln in Baltimore, Md., 1861; spousal
homicide; aliases and disguises.
Civil War—Webster, Timothy: Case Notebook and Field Reports, Including
Transcripts, 1857–1861.
Civil War—Webster, Timothy: Correspondence [1 of 2, 1901–1912].
Major Topics: Timothy Webster family and biographical information; Spy of
the Rebellion (pamphlet); Women’s Relief Corps Home.
Principal Correspondents: William A. Pinkerton; Sarah Webster Robinson;
Robert A. Pinkerton; Daniel Webster; B. F. Kemble; John C. Fraser.
Reel 4
0001
Civil War—Webster, Timothy: Correspondence [2 of 2, 1907–1914, 1928,
1940].
Major Topics: Timothy Webster family and biographical information; spouse
benefits; Daniel Webster death; Sarah Webster Robinson’s medical
expenses.
Principal Correspondents: William A. Pinkerton; Robert A. Pinkerton; Sarah
Webster Robinson; John C. Fraser; George D. Bangs; J. C. Watkins;
Joseph Corona.
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Frame No.
0165
0217
0239
0338
0423
0650
0687
0689
0701
0720
0740
0758
0797
0799
0809
0864
0906
0909
Civil War—Webster, Timothy: Essays and Notes, 1906, n.d.
Major Topics: Spy of the Rebellion (pamphlet); trial and execution of Timothy
Webster by the Confederacy in 1862; Webster biographical information.
Civil War—Webster, Timothy: Newspaper and Magazine Articles and
Related Material [1910–1924, n.d.].
Major Topics: Espionage; execution of Timothy Webster by the Confederacy
in 1862.
Code Names, Operatives and Informants: Lists, 1999, n.d.
Major Topic: Criminal names lists.
Criminal Rosters: Hotel Prowlers and Thieves, n.d.
Major Topic: Criminal names lists.
Criminal Rosters: Pickpockets, n.d.
Major Topic: Criminal names lists.
Directories of Offices and Managers, 1960, n.d.
Directors’ Motions, 1950.
Employees: Ahern, Philip K., 1892, 1900–1925.
Major Topic: Philip K. Ahern career and death.
Employees: Bailey, Norman T., 1904–1912, 1921–1929, n.d.
Major Topic: Norman T. Bailey career and death.
Employees: Ballantine, Alexander, 1900–1907, 1931, 1940.
Major Topic: Alexander Ballantine career and dismissal for alcohol abuse.
Principal Correspondents: William A. Pinkerton; Alexander Ballantine;
Edward S. Gaylor.
Employees: Bangs, George D., 1903–1907, 1923, n.d.
Major Topic: George D. Bangs death from prostate disease.
Principal Correspondents: Allan Pinkerton; David C. Thornhill; William A.
Pinkerton.
Employees: Bangs, George H., 1883–1886, 1919–1923, 1942–1950.
Major Topics: George H. Bangs career; George D. Bangs death from prostate
disease; David C. Thornhill career.
Employees: Bearce, H. W., n.d.
Employees: Beck, Ira L., 1902–1903, 1916, n.d.
Major Topic: Ira L. Beck career and resignation.
Employees: Beutler, Seymour, 1892, 1898–1912.
Major Topic: Seymour Beutler career and health.
Principal Correspondents: Robert A. Pinkerton; Seymour Beutler; William A.
Pinkerton.
Employees: Brady, Samuel, 1908–1927, 1934–1942.
Major Topic: Samuel Brady career.
Principal Correspondents: Ralph Dudley; Samuel Brady.
Employees: Burt, W. H., ca. 1870s.
Employees: Bush, Nelson W., 1888, 1900–1908.
Major Topic: Nelson W. Bush career, debt to the agency, tuberculosis, and
death from cirrhosis of the liver.
Principal Correspondents: William A. Pinkerton; Nelson W. Bush; Robert A.
Pinkerton; John C. Fraser.
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Employees: Carver, Arthur E., 1900–1907, 1915–1925.
Major Topic: Arthur E. Carver career and death.
Employees: Cary, H. Frank, 1899–1912.
Major Topics: H. Frank Cary dismissal for embezzlement; investigation into
whether Cary sold Pinkerton Agency information to the Western
Federation of Miners.
Principal Correspondents: Robert A. Pinkerton; William A. Pinkerton; James
McParland; George D. Bangs.
Employees: Cassidy, Marshall, 1940, n.d.
Employees: Cavoroc, Pierre Charles, 1902–1909, 1925.
Major Topic: Pierre Charles Cavoroc career and investigation for accepting
unauthorized detective work.
Principal Correspondents: William A. Pinkerton; Asher Rosetter.
Employees: Chambers, Benjamin F., n.d.
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0057
0094
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0181
0196
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0601
Employees: Chambers, John A., 1909–1943.
Major Topic: John A. Chambers career.
Principal Correspondent: John A. Chambers.
Employees: Charlesworth, George D., 1882, 1900, 1909–1910.
Employees: Church, Jason R., 1911–1932.
Major Topic: Jason R. Church career.
Employees: Cornish, John, 1880, 1897–1914, 1931, n.d.
Major Topic: John Cornish career and death.
Employees: Cowardin, A. S., 1902–1932.
Major Topic: A. S. Cowardin career and health.
Principal Correspondents: A. S. Cowardin; E. S. Carleton.
Employees: Davis, Frank H., 1901–1903, 1920–1921, 1933–1942.
Major Topic: Frank H. Davis career.
Employees: Diehl, Samuel B., 1881, 1898–1937.
Major Topic: Samuel B. Diehl career and retirement.
Employees: Dimaio, Francis P., 1888–1890, 1896, 1901–1958 [1 of 3].
Major Topic: Francis P. Dimaio career and religious observances.
Principal Correspondents: Edward S. Gaylor; William A. Pinkerton; Herbert
W. Bearce; Francis P. Dimaio; George D. Bangs; Ralph Dudley.
Employees: Dimaio, Francis P., 1888–1890, 1896, 1901–1958 [2 of 3].
Major Topic: Francis P. Dimaio career, retirement and family.
Principal Correspondents: Ralph Dudley; Francis P. Dimaio; T. J. Finnerty.
Employees: Dimaio, Francis P., 1888–1890, 1896, 1901–1958 [3 of 3].
Major Topic: Francis P. Dimaio biographical information and death.
Principal Correspondents: Francis P. Dimaio; T. J. Finnerty.
Employees: Donnelly, Charles S., 1892, 1902–1905, 1919, n.d.
Major Topic: Charles S. Donnelly career and family.
Principal Correspondent: Robert A. Pinkerton.
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0697
0771
0786
0807
0811
0815
0826
0931
Employees: Dougherty, George S., 1888, 1896–1911, 1931, 1949, 1957, n.d.
Major Topic: George S. Dougherty biographical information and career.
Principal Correspondents: George D. Bangs; Robert A. Pinkerton; George S.
Dougherty; Harry V. Dougherty.
Employees: Dudley, Ralph, 1907, 1927, 1967.
Major Topics: Ralph Dudley career; spouse benefits.
Principal Correspondents: Robert A. Pinkerton; Anna H. Dudley; T. J.
Finnerty.
Employees: Duhain, Clovis E., 1902–1915, 1922, 1931–1938, 1947, n.d.
Major Topics: Clovis E. Duhain career and death; attempted homicide of
Duhain.
Principal Correspondents: Clovis E. Duhain; William A. Pinkerton; David C.
Thornhill.
Employees: Erb, Jesse, 1904, 1912–1922.
Major Topic: Jesse Erb career.
Employees: Esten, Alfred A., 1912–1914, 1945–1950, 1966, n.d.
Major Topic: Spouse benefits.
Principal Correspondent: T. J. Finnerty.
Employees: Fallon, James J., n.d.
Employees: Field, William, n.d.
Employees: Forsee, William F., 1888–1890, 1912, 1921, n.d.
Major Topic: William F. Forsee career.
Employees: Fox, Daniel William, 1922–1950, n.d [1 of 3].
Major Topic: Daniel William Fox career and leg injury.
Principal Correspondent: Daniel William Fox.
Employees: Fox, Daniel William, 1922–1950, n.d [2 of 3].
Major Topics: Assault on Daniel William Fox; Fox financial problems and
alcohol abuse; Fox career; horse racing.
Principal Correspondents: Daniel William Fox; Asher Rosetter; J. F. Larkin;
W. Wagner.
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Employees: Fox, Daniel William, 1922–1950, n.d [3 of 3].
Major Topics: Daniel William Fox career and alcohol abuse; horse racing.
Principal Correspondents: Daniel William Fox; W. Wagner; Robert A.
Pinkerton.
0079 Employees: Franklin, Benjamin, 1887, n.d.
0083 Employees: Fraser, John C., 1880, 1886, 1901–1938, n.d.
Major Topic: John C. Fraser career, press interviews, motor vehicle accident,
and death from throat cancer.
Principal Correspondents: Robert A. Pinkerton; William A. Pinkerton; John
C. Fraser.
0146 Employees: Gaylor, Edward S., 1883, 1889, 1904–1921, 1942, n.d.
Major Topics: Edward S. Gaylor strokes and retirement; aged employees.
Principal Correspondents: Edward S. Gaylor; Robert A. Pinkerton; William
A. Pinkerton; George D. Bangs.
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0230 Employees: Graham, George S., n.d.
0232 Employees: Green, D. T., n.d.
0234 Employees: Grogan, Edward F., 1941, n.d.
0243 Employees: Hanscom, Orinton M., 1894, n.d.
0265 Employees: Harries, John A., 1905–1924.
Major Topic: John A. Harries career.
0282 Employees: Hatfield, Oliver R., 1905–1917.
Major Topic: Oliver R. Hatfield career.
0295 Employees: Hawes, Frederick M., n.d.
0298 Employees: Hay, George, 1951.
0300 Employees: Hey, Charles D., 1942.
0304 Employees: Howes, Earl J., 1915–1926.
Major Topic: Earl J. Howes career and killing of his father in law, William A.
Phelan.
Principal Correspondent: Standish L. Stiles.
0332 Employees: Hunsdorfer, Frank, 1903.
0335 Employees: Irle, Andrew, 1894, 1902–1905, 1913, n.d.
Major Topic: Andrew Irle career and family.
Principal Correspondent: William A. Pinkerton.
0349 Employees: Kemble, Benjamin F., 1889–1890, 1898–1917.
Major Topic: Benjamin F. Kemble career.
0368 Employees: Larkin, J. F., n.d.
0370 Employees: Laughlin, W. B., 1910.
0372 Employees: Lawlor, James J., n.d.
0374 Employees: Leith, George E., 1893, 1899–1920, 1926, n.d.
Major Topics: George E. Leith career, job offers, and death; spouse benefits.
Principal Correspondents: Robert A. Pinkerton; George E. Leith; Allan
Pinkerton; D. T. Green; Winnie L. Leith.
0444 Employees: Littlejohn, Joseph, n.d.
0449 Employees: Linden, Robert J., n.d.
Major Topic: Robert J. Linden biographical information and career.
0477 Employees: Loughran, Edwin, 1892.
0489 Employees: McGinn, John, 1892.
0508 Employees: McInnes, William, n.d.
0510 Employees: McMahon, Philip B., 1893–1953, 1960–1961 [1 of 3].
Major Topics: Philip B. McMahon career as office boy and clerk; McMahon
family and tuberculosis.
Principal Correspondents: George D. Bangs; Philip B. McMahon; J. W.
McNamara; Allan Pinkerton; James McParland; S. C. Thiele; George E.
Leith.
0685 Employees: McMahon, Philip B., 1893–1953, 1960–1961 [2 of 3].
Major Topic: Philip B. McMahon career and tuberculosis.
Principal Correspondents: Philip B. McMahon; George D. Bangs; M. S.
Mosher; G. A. Fuller; H. H. Lintner.
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0945
Employees: McMahon, Philip B., 1893–1953, 1960–1961 [3 of 3].
Major Topics: Philip B. McMahon career, retirement, and divorce; Social
Security benefits; robbery and homicide of McMahon; homosexuality.
Principal Correspondents: Standish L. Stiles; Philip B. McMahon; J. H. Estes.
Employees: McMullin, H. R., 1948, n.d.
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0313
0318
0351
0354
0391
0427
0445
0448
0451
0471
0474
0483
0486
0489
0496
0503
0506
Employees: McParland, James, 1880, 1888–1919, 1928–1931, 1949, 1961
[1 of 3].
Major Topics: James McParland career and health; Western Federation of
Miners investigation; spouse benefits; McParland death; Molly Maguires
(crime organization); McParland biographical information.
Principal Correspondents: Robert A. Pinkerton; James McParland; William
A. Pinkerton; George D. Bangs; John C. Fraser; W. E. Dwyer; C. V.
Hatter.
Employees: McParland, James, n.d [1919, 2 of 3].
Major Topics: James McParland illness, death and career; Molly Maguires
(crime organization).
Employees: McParland, James, n.d [3 of 3].
Employees: Miscellaneous Photographs, ca. 1890, 1915, n.d.
Employees: Miller, Frank E., n.d.
Employees: Minster, William H., 1900–1908.
Major Topics: William H. Minster career; Buffalo Bill Wild West Show;
ticket scalpers; pickpockets.
Employees: Mosher, Herbert S., 1902–1923, 1936–1938, 1947, 1953,
1961–1963.
Major Topic: Herbert S. Mosher career and pension.
Principal Correspondent: Herbert S. Mosher.
Employees: Murphy, Christopher C., 1886–1906, 1916–1920, n.d.
Major Topic: Christopher C. Murphy career and death in an automobile
accident.
Employees: Murphy, John A., n.d.
Employees: Murphy, Richard C., n.d.
Employees: Murray, Frank, 1904, 1938, n.d.
Major Topic: Frank Murray death and biographical information.
Employees: Noble, A. F., n.d.
Employees: Nugent, Howard W., 1947, n.d.
Employees: O’Grady, Jerome V., n.d.
Employees: Owen, A. E., n.d.
Employees: Payton, Weffiz M., 1897.
Employees: Pender, John J., 1891, 1928, 1947.
Employees: Robertson, David, n.d.
Employees: Rogers, John W., n.d.
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0510 Employees: Rosseter, Asher, 1887, 1896–1923, 1937, 1947–1959, n.d.
Major Topics: Asher Rosetter career; railroad freight handlers strike; Rosetter
biographical information.
Principal Correspondents: Robert A. Pinkerton; William A. Pinkerton;
George D. Bangs; Asher Rosetter.
0594 Employees: Salmon, George H., n.d.
0598 Employees: Saville, John R., 1884, 1896, 1906–1908, 1912–1918.
Major Topic: John R. Saville career.
0611 Employees: Schooley, R. W., n.d.
0614 Employees: Schumacher, Joseph H., 1883–1899, 1912, 1926, 1932, n.d.
Major Topic: Joseph H. Schumacher career.
Principal Correspondent: Robert A. Pinkerton.
0645 Employees: Sease, David N., 1903.
0648 Employees: Shoemack, William H., 1937.
0651 Employees: Spence, Lowell, n.d.
0656 Employees: Stancliff, G. L., 1940–1946, n.d.
Major Topics: G. L. Stancliff career and heart disease; Stancliff conflict with
J. O. Camden.
Principal Correspondents: Asher Rosetter; G. L. Stancliff; J. O. Camden.
0864 Employees: Stiles, Standish L., 1900–1916, 1930–1946.
Major Topic: Standish L. Stiles career and death from lung cancer.
Principal Correspondent: Standish L. Stiles.
0921 Employees: Thiel, George H., 1868.
0924 Employees: Shoemack, William H., 1937.
0929 Employees: Thornhill, David C., 1899–1950.
Major Topic: David C. Thornhill career, eye injury, and death.
Principal Correspondents: Robert A. Pinkerton; George D. Bangs; William A.
Pinkerton; Allan Pinkerton.
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0001 Employees: Turrell, Orban C., 1904, 1912, 1933, 1938–1940, 1953, 1962–
1963, n.d.
Major Topics: Orban C. Turrell career; spouse benefits.
0034 Employees: Vallins, Thomas, 1897.
0037 Employees: Vallins, William A., 1892, 1901–1903, n.d.
0043 Employees: Wagner, William F., n.d.
0045 Employees: Warner, Francis, 1931.
0053 Employees: Watkins, Joseph O., 1905–1912, 1921–1923, 1940–1946.
Major Topic: Joseph O. Watkins career.
Principal Correspondents: William A. Pinkerton; Allan Pinkerton.
0079 Employees: Weber, Payton M., 1897.
0082 Employees: Webster, Timothy, 1901–1909.
Major Topic: Spy of the Rebellion (pamphlet).
Principal Correspondents: Robert A. Pinkerton; Daniel Webster.
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0363
0398
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0513
0529
0543
0561
0565
0597
0611
Employees: Webster, William E., 1906–1933.
Major Topic: William E. Webster career, family, and resignation.
Principal Correspondents: William E. Webster; J. H. Schumacher; Allan
Pinkerton.
Employees: Weiss, Edward J., 1894, 1900–1919, 1928, 1933.
Major Topic: Edward J. Weiss career.
Employees: Williams, John A., 1904–1911, 1919–1921.
Major Topic: John A. Williams career.
Employees: Wilson, Charles L., 1909, n.d.
Employees: Wind, Frank T., 1883–1884, 1904, 1912, 1924, 1933–1943.
Major Topic: Frank T. Wind career, death and family.
Principal Correspondents: Frank T. Wind; J. O. Camden; Ralph Dudley.
Employees: Unidentified Photographs, n.d [1 of 4].
Employees: Unidentified Photographs, n.d [2 of 4].
Employees: Unidentified Photographs, n.d [3 of 4].
Employees: Unidentified Photographs, n.d [4 of 4].
Exhibition Texts, n.d.: “$200,000 Sneak Theft from the Office of James H.
Young.”
Major Topic: Robbery of broker James H. Young in 1878.
Exhibition Texts, n.d.: “American Exchange National Bank, $41,000 Sneak
Theft.”
Major Topics: Theft of funds by bank messenger Edmund S. Crawford in
1888; extradition.
Exhibition Texts, n.d.: “Armed Kidnapping of Cashier and Burglary
Northampton (Mass.) National Bank.”
Major Topic: Northampton National Bank robbery committed by Robert C.
Scott and James Dunlap in 1876.
Exhibition Texts, n.d.: “Bank Burglary—Beneficial Savings Fund of
Philadelphia, Pa.”
Major Topics: Beneficial Savings Fund of Philadelphia, Pa. robbery
committed by James Hope and Joseph Killoran in 1869; Killoran criminal
career.
Exhibition Texts, n.d.: “Burglary: Manhattan Savings Institution of New
York.”
Exhibition Texts, n.d.: “Burglary of the Third National Bank of Baltimore,
Md.”
Major Topics: Third National Bank of Baltimore, Md. robbery committed by
Charles Becker and Joseph Elliott in 1872.
Exhibition Texts, n.d.: “Express Car Robbery—Merchants’ Union Express
Co.”
Major Topic: Merchants’ Union Express Co. robbery committed by Charles
Bullard in 1868.
Exhibition Texts, n.d.: “Forgeries on the Bank of England.”
Major Topic: Bank of England defrauding attempt made by George and
Austin Bidwell, George MacDonnell, and Edwin Noyes in 1873.
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0660
0695
0722
0773
0804
0850
0866
0873
Exhibition Texts, n.d.: “Fredericka Mandelbaum.”
Major Topic: Fredericka “Marm” Mandelbaum criminal career.
Exhibition Texts, n.d.: “History Briefs,” miscellaneous.
Major Topics: Walpole, N.H. Savings Bank robbery committed by
Maximillian Schoenbein, George M. White, and Dave Cummings in 1864;
National Village Bank of Bowdoinham, Maine robbery committed by Orin
Simms, Ed Macguire, Dave Bartlett, and George M. White in 1866;
Burrow brothers gang.
Exhibition Texts, n.d.: “Holdup Robbery—Union Pacific Train No. 3.”
Major Topic: Union Pacific Railroad robbery in Tipton, Wyo. committed by
Harvey “Kid Curry” Logan, Ben Kilpatrick, and William Cruzan in 1900.
Exhibition Texts, n.d.: “James and Younger Gang, Bank and Train Holdup
Robbers.”
Major Topics: First National Bank of Northfield, Minn. robbery committed by
the James and Younger gang in 1876; Younger brothers capture.
Exhibition Texts, n.d.: “Manhattan Savings Institution Bank Robbery,
1878.”
Major Topic: Manhattan Savings Institution (N.Y.) robbery planned by
George Leonidas Leslie.
Exhibition Texts, n.d.: “Notable Bank Sneak Thefts Committed by Joseph
Killoran and Associates.”
Major Topics: Lewisburg, Pa. National Bank robbery committed by Joseph
Killoran in 1891; Killoran criminal career and assistance from the
Pinkerton Agency.
Exhibition Texts, n.d.: “Reno Brothers’ Gang: Train Robbers, Safe Burglars,
and Holdup Men.”
Exhibition Texts, n.d.: “Wild Bunch.”
Major Topic: Bank and railroad robbery.
Financial File: Family Records: Pinkerton, Robert A., estate, “worthless”
securities, 1928–1937.
Major Topics: International Construction Company; Sierra Madre
Development Company; Chihuahua and Sinaloa Development Company;
Mexican Timber Field Company; Kansas City, Mexico, & Orient Railway
Company.
Principal Correspondent: O. C. Turrell.
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Financial File: Family Records: Pinkerton, William A., estate, 1924–1932,
1938, 1955.
Major Topic: Securities.
0036 Financial File: Family Records: Pullman, Margaret Allen, and Isabel P.
Watkins, Receipts for Sale of Interests, 1925, n.d.
0048 Financial File: Financial Statement and List of Bonds, 1911.
0054 Financial File: Patrol Collections, Chicago, Ill., 1938–1946.
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0112
0174
0353
0437
0453
0470
0473
0492
0580
0602
0618
0878
Financial File: Powers of Attorney, 1925–1960.
Major Topic: Names list.
Financial File: Profits, Losses, and Special Expenses, 1888–1903.
Financial File: Safety Deposit Box Lists, 1936.
Major Topics: Loans; securities; patents.
Financial File: Uncollectible Accounts, 1933–1958.
General Correspondence, 1900–1904, 1916, 1924, 1936–1938, 1947–1950,
1960–1970, 1988, 1997–1998, n.d.
Major Topics: Andrew Irle career; Pinkerton Agency history; pensions.
Principal Correspondents: George D. Bangs; Edward S. Gaylor; Robert A.
Pinkerton; Ralph Dudley; Asher Rosetter.
Horse Racetrack Protection, 1924, n.d.
Major Topic: Photographs.
Jewelers Security Alliance, Incident Reports, 1929.
Major Topic: Shoplifters.
Labor complaints, n.d.
Legal File: Contracts, Including Copies, 1855, 1945, 1950.
Legal File: Copyrights, 1945, 1956–1970.
Legal File: Laws prohibiting federal contracts with Pinkerton’s National
Detective Agency, 1946, 1963.
Major Topics: Reconstruction Finance Corporation; War Assets Corporation;
S. 1543, to repeal the act of March 3, 1893, prohibiting government
contracts with the Pinkerton Agency.
Legal File: Litigation, Miscellaneous, 1914, 1921, 1934, 1983.
Major Topics: Pinkerton v. Pinkerton; logos.
Legal File: Litigation, Pinkerton’s U.S. Detective Agency, Infringement Case,
1904–1905, n.d [1 of 6].
Major Topics: Pinkerton’s United States Detective Agency correspondence
school; mail fraud complaint by Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency
against Pinkerton’s United States Detective Agency; Matt Pinkerton;
David W. Pinkerton; Union Detective Agency.
Principal Correspondents: Robert A. Pinkerton; William A. Pinkerton;
Charles R. Wright; Allan Pinkerton; J. H. Schumacher.
Legal File: Litigation, Pinkerton’s U.S. Detective Agency, Infringement Case,
1904–1905, n.d [2 of 6].
Major Topics: Pinkerton’s United States Detective Agency correspondence
school; competing detective agencies; mail fraud complaint by Pinkerton’s
National Detective Agency against Pinkerton’s United States Detective
Agency; Hoey Publishing Company; Pinkerton v. Pinkerton; Pinkerton’s
Union Detective Agency.
Principal Correspondents: Robert A. Pinkerton; William A. Pinkerton; J. H.
Schumacher; Herbert W. Bearce; Edward S. Gaylor.
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0238
0567
0775
0820
0840
0863
0894
Legal File: Litigation, Pinkerton’s U.S. Detective Agency, Infringement Case,
1904–1905, n.d [3 of 6].
Major Topics: Pinkerton’s United States Detective Agency correspondence
school; Pinkerton v. Pinkerton.
Legal File: Litigation, Pinkerton’s U.S. Detective Agency, Infringement Case,
1904–1905, n.d [4 of 6].
Major Topics: Prosecution of Frank J. Sullivan for sexual assault; mail fraud
complaint by Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency against Pinkerton’s
United States Detective Agency; Matt Pinkerton; investigation of David
W. Pinkerton; William J. Burns International Detective Agency.
Principal Correspondents: Robert A. Pinkerton; William A. Pinkerton;
Edward S. Gaylor.
Legal File: Litigation, Pinkerton’s U.S. Detective Agency, Infringement Case,
1904–1905, n.d [5 of 6].
Major Topics: Pinkerton’s United States Detective Agency correspondence
school; Pinkerton v. Pinkerton; William J. Burns International Detective
Agency; Milwaukee Co-Operative Detective Service.
Principal Correspondents: Robert A. Pinkerton; William A. Pinkerton;
Herbert W. Bearce; Edward S. Gaylor; B. F. Kemble.
Legal File: Litigation, Pinkerton’s U.S. Detective Agency, Infringement Case,
1904–1905, n.d [6 of 6].
Major Topics: Pinkerton’s United States Detective Agency correspondence
school; investigation of David W. Pinkerton; Pinkerton v. Pinkerton; mail
fraud complaint by Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency against
Pinkerton’s United States Detective Agency.
Principal Correspondents: William A. Pinkerton; Robert A. Pinkerton;
Herbert W. Bearce; Allan Pinkerton; Edward S. Gaylor.
Legal File: Partnership, Agreements, 1884, 1904–1908, 1917–1918.
Major Topic: Contracts.
Legal File: Partnership, Assets, 1924.
Major Topic: William A. Pinkerton estate.
Legal File: Proposed Certificate of Incorporation and Agency Bylaws, 1909.
Legal File: Service Mark and Trademark Registration, 1950–1951, 1956.
Legal File: Stockholders Meetings, 1930–1939, n.d.
Major Topic: Stockholder dividends.
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Letterhead and Logo, “We Never Sleep,” 1856, 1872, 1884, 1938, 1949–1951,
n.d.
0041 Music, Songs Referring to Pinkerton Detectives, 1912, 1984.
0053 Philadelphia, Pa., Office: Licensing, 1887–1918, 1924, n.d. copy.
Major Topic: Detective licenses.
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0090 “Picture Cabinet,” Photograph Filing System, 1914, n.d.
0096 Policies, Procedure, and Training: All Office Order Books, Canvassing, Sales
Index, n.d.
0125 Policies, Procedure, and Training: All Office Order Books, Canvassing, Sales
Index, n.d. Index No. 0, Outline and Suggestions, 1926–1938.
Major Topics: Subversive activities; employee background checks; client
retention; marketing Pinkerton Agency services.
0167 Policies, Procedure, and Training: All Office Order Books, Canvassing, Sales
Index, n.d. Index Nos. 1–5, Accountants-Brokers, 1926–1942.
Major Topics: Marketing Pinkerton Agency services; accounting and auditing;
patent lawyers; forgery; bank employees.
0199 Policies, Procedure, and Training: All Office Order Books, Canvassing, Sales
Index, n.d. Index Nos. 6–10, Character Inspections–Flat Rate Work, 1926–
1947.
Major Topics: Marketing Pinkerton Agency services; employee performance
investigations; Chevrolet Motor Company.
0260 Policies, Procedure, and Training: All Office Order Books, Canvassing, Sales
Index, n.d. Index Nos. 11–15, Food Products Liability Claims–Hospitals,
1924–1942.
Major Topics: Marketing Pinkerton Agency services; food adulteration; public
utilities; hotel inspections; industrial plant safety inspections; breweries.
0340 Policies, Procedure, and Training: All Office Order Books, Canvassing, Sales
Index, n.d. Index Nos. 16–20, Insurance–Newspaper Articles, 1924–1948.
Major Topics: Marketing Pinkerton Agency services; insurance company
client retention; lawyers; industrial plant sabotage and equipment theft;
subversive activities; aircraft manufacturers; apartment house inspections.
0422 Policies, Procedure, and Training: All Office Order Books, Canvassing, Sales
Index, n.d. Index Nos. 21–25, Oil Companies–Public Offices, 1923–1948.
Major Topics: Marketing Pinkerton Agency services; employee performance
investigations; gas station inspections; security guard services; subversive
activities; identification badges; armored truck security services; personal
security services; exhibitions and trade fairs; golf tournaments; baseball;
football.
0658 Policies, Procedure, and Training: All Office Order Books, Canvassing, Sales
Index, n.d. Index Nos. 26–30, Schools, Colleges and Universities–Store
Services, 1926–1948.
Major Topics: Security guard services; department store inspection service.
0754 Policies, Procedure, and Training: All Office Order Books, Canvassing, Sales
Index, n.d. Index Nos. 31–35, Telephone, Telegraph, and Cable companies–
Unfair Competition, 1926–1945.
Major Topics: Security guard services; liquor industry; trade associations;
Carbon Dioxide Institute, Inc.; freight; bus lines; steamboats.
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Policies, Procedure, and Training: All Office Order Books, Policies,
Procedure, and Training: All Office Order Books, Numeral Files: Vol. 1,
1924–1949 [1 of 4].
Major Topics: Book and record keeping; security guard services; client
selection; automobiles; Pinkerton Agency employees.
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0080
0178
0295
0387
0451
0518
0582
0594
0674
0844
Policies, Procedure, and Training: All Office Order Books, Numeral Files:
Vol. 1, 1924–1949 [2 of 4].
Major Topics: Evidence collection; shadowing.
Policies, Procedure, and Training: All Office Order Books, Numeral Files:
Vol. 1, 1924–1949 [3 of 4].
Major Topic: Insurance.
Policies, Procedure, and Training: All Office Order Books, Numeral Files:
Vol. 1, 1924–1949 [4 of 4].
Major Topics: Security guard services; shoplifters; evidence collection; horse
racing; bookkeeping.
Policies, Procedure, and Training: All Office Order Books, Numeral Files:
Vol. 2, 1921–1950 [1 of 4].
Major Topics: Security guard services; investigations of lawful activities of
labor unions; client selection.
Policies, Procedure, and Training: All Office Order Books, Numeral Files:
Vol. 2, 1921–1950 [2 of 4].
Major Topics: Government contracts; security guard service.
Policies, Procedure, and Training: All Office Order Books, Numeral Files:
Vol. 2, 1921–1950 [3 of 4].
Major Topics: Security guard services; Pinkerton Agency employees.
Policies, Procedure, and Training: All Office Order Books, Numeral Files:
Vol. 2, 1921–1950 [4 of 4].
Major Topics: Evidence collection; shoplifters; security guard services.
Policies, Procedure, and Training: All Office Order Books, Numeral Files:
Vol. 3, Index, 1977.
Major Topic: Claim investigations.
Policies, Procedure, and Training: All Office Order Books, Numeral Files:
Vol. 3, Order No. 0s, Executive, 1964–1977.
Major Topic: Internal communication guidelines.
Policies, Procedure, and Training: All Office Order Books, Numeral Files:
Vol. 3, Order No. 100s, Operating, 1959–1976.
Major Topics: Pinkerton Agency employees; security guard services; billing;
clients; advertising.
Policies, Procedure, and Training: All Office Order Books, Numeral Files:
Vol. 3, Order No. 200s, General, 1957–1971.
Major Topic: Bus line inspections.
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Policies, Procedure, and Training: All Office Order Books, Numeral Files:
Vol. 3, Order No. 300s–500s, Criminal-Clerical, 1959–1977.
Major Topics: Record keeping; security guard services; evidence collection;
right of privacy; Pinkerton Agency employees.
0991 Policies, Procedure, and Training: All Office Order Books, Numeral Files:
Vol. 3, Order No. 600s, Financial, 1956–1977.
Major Topics: Bookkeeping; insurance; salaries.
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Policies, Procedure, and Training: All Office Order Books, Pamphlets,
Kansas City, Kans.: Order 210, Airlines, 1945.
Major Topic: Airline inspections.
Policies, Procedure, and Training: All Office Order Books, Pamphlets,
Kansas City, Kans.: Order 223, Railroad Checking, 1924.
Major Topic: Railroad inspections.
Policies, Procedure, and Training: All Office Order Books, Pamphlets,
Kansas City, Kans.: Order 224, Railway Checking, 1925.
Major Topics: Railroad inspections; railroad employees.
Policies, Procedure, and Training: All Office Order Books, Pamphlets,
Kansas City, Kans.: Order 226, Dining Car Service, 1928.
Major Topics: Railroad inspections; railroad employees.
Policies, Procedure, and Training: All Office Order Books, Pamphlets,
Kansas City, Kans.: Order 227, Testing Buses, 1945.
Major Topic: Bus line inspections.
Policies, Procedure, and Training: All Office Order Books, Pamphlets,
Kansas City, Kans.: Order 228, Testing Theaters, 1931–1932.
Major Topic: Theater inspections.
Policies, Procedure, and Training: All Office Order Books, Pamphlets,
Kansas City, Kans.: Order 233, Pinkerton’s Store Service, 1932.
Major Topics: Department stores; shoplifters; employee background checks.
Policies, Procedure, and Training: All Office Order Books, Pamphlets,
Kansas City, Kans.: Order 234, Hotel Service Inspection, 1934.
Policies, Procedure, and Training: All Office Order Books, Pamphlets,
Kansas City, Kans.: Order 235, Food Poisoning and Foreign Substances,
1937.
Policies, Procedure, and Training: All Office Order Books, Pamphlets,
Kansas City, Kans.: Order 237, Repossession Work, 1958.
Policies, Procedure, and Training: All Office Order Books, Pamphlets,
Kansas City, Kans.: Order 250–252, Life, Accident, and Health Insurance,
1935, 1944.
Major Topics: Insurance claims; insurance risk inspections.
Policies, Procedure, and Training: All Office Order Books, Pamphlets,
Kansas City, Kans.: Order 253, Casualty Insurance, 1936, 1944.
Major Topics: Liability insurance; risk inspections; automobile insurance; car
garages; elevators; apartment houses; restaurants; hotels; amusement
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0958
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parks; construction industry; medical malpractice insurance; beauty shops;
worker’s compensation.
Policies, Procedure, and Training: All Office Order Books, Pamphlets,
Kansas City, Kans.: Order 255, Suretyship, 1949.
Major Topics: Employee background checks; surety bonds.
Policies, Procedure, and Training: All Office Order Books, Pamphlets,
Kansas City, Kans.: Order 257, Burglary, Robbery, and Theft, 1949.
Major Topics: Residence and small business risk inspections for theft; safes
and vaults.
Policies, Procedure, and Training: All Office Order Books, Pamphlets,
Kansas City, Kans.: Order 260, Fire Investigation, 1940.
Major Topics: Evidence collection; fire insurance; inflammable materials.
Policies, Procedure, and Training: All Office Order Books, Pamphlets,
Kansas City, Kans.: Order 263, General Disability Claims, Surveillance and
Motion Pictures, 1947–1955.
Major Topic: Video and film surveillance.
Policies, Procedure, and Training: All Office Order Books, Pamphlets,
Kansas City, Kans.: Order 411, Plant Property Protection, 1942.
Major Topics: World War II industrial plants; security guard services;
subversive activities; sabotage; employee background checks; naval
vessels.
Policies, Procedure, and Training: All Office Order Books, Pamphlets,
Kansas City, Kans.: Order 401–416, 1904.
Major Topics: Pinkerton Agency employees; Pinkerton’s Protective Patrol,
agency branch; uniforms.
Policies, Procedure, and Training: All Office Order Books, Pamphlets,
Kansas City, Kans.: Order 401–429 with index, 1905.
Major Topics: Pinkerton Agency employees; Pinkerton’s Protective Patrol,
agency branch; uniforms.
Policies, Procedure, and Training: All Office Order Books, Protective Patrol:
Patrol Forms, n.d.
Major Topic: Accounts payable.
Policies, Procedure, and Training: All Office Order Books, Topical Files:
Agency History, 1926, 1936.
Policies, Procedure, and Training: All Office Order Books, Topical Files:
Investigations, Civil and Criminal, 1935–1941.
Major Topics: Insurance claims; liability insurance; missing persons; personal
injury claims; diseases and disorders.
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Policies, Procedure, and Training: All Office Order Books, Topical Files:
Miscellaneous, 1921–1947 [1 of 2].
Major Topics: Signage; security guard services; bombs; traveling sales
workers; jewelry; firearms.
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0188
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0276
0280
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0673
0675
0687
0715
0756
0774
Policies, Procedure, and Training: All Office Order Books, Topical Files:
Miscellaneous, 1921–1947 [2 of 2].
Major Topics: Exhibitions and trade fairs; firearms; lie detection; Pinkerton
Agency history; labor union-sponsored legislation detrimental to the
agency; detective licenses; liability insurance.
Policies, Procedure, and Training: All Office Order Books, Topical Files:
Pretexts and Shadowing, 1929–1940.
Major Topic: Automobiles.
Policies, Procedure, and Training: All Office Order Books, Topical Files:
War Work, 1941–1942.
Major Topics: World War II industrial plants; security guard services; bombs;
subversive activities; naval vessels; citizenship.
Policies, Procedure, and Training: “Digest” of Civil and Criminal Law, 1932,
1939, n.d.: Index.
Policies, Procedure, and Training: “Digest” of Civil and Criminal Law, 1932,
1939, n.d.: Articles 1–7, Introductory-Confessions.
Major Topics: Mental illness; arrest.
Policies, Procedure, and Training: “Digest” of Civil and Criminal Law, 1932,
1939, n.d.: Articles 9–16, Private Wrongs–Burglary.
Major Topics: Assault; stolen property; explosives; safes and vaults.
Policies, Procedure, and Training: “Digest” of Civil and Criminal Law, 1932,
1939, n.d.: Articles 25–35, Receiving Stolen Goods–Locating Persons.
Major Topic: Homicide.
Policies, Procedure, and Training: “Digest” of Civil and Criminal Law, 1932,
1939, n.d.: Articles 36–50, Civil Actions–Law Terms and Maxims.
Major Topics: Tort law; trespass; trademarks; trade secrets.
Policies, Procedure, and Training: “General Principles and Rules,” and
Related Policy Statements, 1873–1881, 1916, 1945, 1960, n.d.
Policies, Procedure, and Training: Handbooks, 1956–1959, 1974, n.d.
Policies, Procedure, and Training: Photographs of Safe Burglary by Blowing,
Burning, and Ripping, n.d.
Major Topic: Explosives.
Policies, Procedure, and Training: Training Manuals, 1950s; Vol. 1, “Agency
History and Policies, Employees’ Responsibility, Civics, Operations….”
Policies, Procedure, and Training: Training Manuals, 1950s; Vol. 2,
“Operating Methods of Procedure, Investigations: Open and Direct, Use of
Pretext, Roping, Undercover, Surveillance.”
Major Topics: Witnesses; evidence collection.
Policies, Procedure, and Training: Training Manuals, 1950s; Vol. 2A,
“Operating Methods of Procedure: Secret Investigations.”
Major Topics: Industrial plant inspections; industrial accidents and safety;
subversive activities.
Policies, Procedure, and Training: Training Manuals, 1950s: Vol. 3,
“Operating: Reports, Lawful Procedure” [1 of 2].
Major Topics: Arrest; searches and seizures; government documents.
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Policies, Procedure, and Training: Training Manuals, 1950s: Vol. 3,
“Operating: Reports, Lawful Procedure” [2 of 2].
Major Topic: Arrest.
0853 Policies, Procedure, and Training: Training Manuals, 1950s: Vol. 4,
“Operating: Witnesses, Evidence, Criminal Investigations.”
Major Topics: Evidence collection; confessions; crime scene investigation;
autopsy; homicide; arson; robbery.
0933 Policies, Procedure, and Training: Training Manuals, 1950s: Vol. 4A,
Supplement, “How to Open Locks Without Keys or Picks.”
0946 Policies, Procedure, and Training: Training Manuals, 1950s: Vol. 5,
“Operating: Civil Investigations, Protection.”
Major Topics: Security guard services; surveillance; insurance claim
investigations; witnesses.
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Policies, Procedure, and Training: Training Manuals, 1950s; Vol. 7, “Arson
Investigators Manual.”
Major Topics: Fire insurance; evidence collection; inflammable materials;
polygraphs.
Public Relations and Promotional Material: Agency Histories, 1902, n.d.
Public Relations and Promotional Material: Branch Manager’s Press Kit,
1951, 1961–1964, n.d.
Major Topic: Pinkerton Agency history.
Public Relations and Promotional Material: Sales Literature, “Hands Up,”
1923–1925, 1948, n.d.
Public Relations and Promotional Material: Sales Literature, Miscellaneous,
1924–1935, 1949–1953.
Reward Books: American Bankers Association Photographs, n.d.
Reward Books: “Book 7, Hartford Office,” Hartford, Conn., 1932–1957, n.d
[1 of 2].
Major Topics: Jewelry robberies; homicide.
Reward Books: “Book 7, Hartford Office,” Hartford, Conn., 1932–1957, n.d
[2 of 2].
Major Topics: Homicide; jewelry robberies.
Reward Books: “Book 8, Denver Office,” Denver, Colo., 1914–1915, n.d.
[1 of 4].
Major Topics: Forgery; robbery.
Reward Books: “Book 8, Denver Office,” Denver, Colo., 1914–1915, n.d.
[2 of 4].
Major Topic: Jewelry and automobile robberies.
Reward Books: “Book 8, Denver Office,” Denver, Colo., 1914–1915, n.d.
[3 of 4]
Major Topics: Jewelry robberies; forgery; homicide.
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Reward Books: “Book 8, Denver Office,” Denver, Colo., 1914–1915, n.d.
[4 of 4].
Major Topics: Forgery; homicide.
0738 Reward Books: “Book 9, New Orleans Office,” New Orleans, La., 1926–1948,
n.d [1 of 2].
Major Topic: Jewelry robberies.
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0975
Reward Books: “Book 9, New Orleans Office,” New Orleans, La., 1926–1948,
n.d [2 of 2].
Major Topic: Jewelry robberies.
Reward Books: “Book 11,” 1926–1939, n.d [1 of 4].
Major Topic: Jewelry robberies.
Reward Books: “Book 11,” 1926–1939, n.d [2 of 4].
Major Topics: Jewelry robberies; embezzlement.
Reward Books: “Book 11,” 1926–1939, n.d [3 of 4].
Major Topics: Jewelry robberies; fraud.
Reward Books: “Book 11,” 1926–1939, n.d [4 of 4].
Major Topics: Jewelry robberies; forgery.
Reward Books: “Book 13, St. Louis,” St. Louis, Mo., 1933, 1949–1956, n.d.
[1 of 2].
Major Topic: Jewelry robberies.
Reward Books: “Book 13, St. Louis,” St. Louis, Mo., 1933, 1949–1956, n.d.
[2 of 2].
Reward Books: “Book 100,” 1947–1955.
Major Topic: Jewelry robberies.
Reward Books: “Kansas City Office,” Kansas City, Kans., 1926–1937
[1 of 6].
Major Topics: Fraud; jewelry robberies; railroads; embezzlement.
Reward Books: “Kansas City Office,” Kansas City, Kans., 1926–1937
[2 of 6].
Major Topics: Homicide; jewelry robberies.
Reward Books: “Kansas City Office,” Kansas City, Kans., 1926–1937
[3 of 6].
Major Topics: Homicide; armed robbery; bond robbery; jewelry robbery;
forgery; embezzlement.
Reward Books: “Kansas City Office,” Kansas City, Kans., 1938–1947, 1958,
n.d [4 of 6].
Major Topics: Jewelry robberies; homicide.
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Reward Books: “Kansas City Office,” Kansas City, Kans., 1938–1947, 1958,
n.d [5 of 6].
Major Topics: Homicide; jewelry robberies; fraud.
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0184
0256
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0376
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0539
0580
0626
0660
Reward Books: “Kansas City Office,” Kansas City, Kans., 1938–1947, 1958,
n.d [6 of 6].
Major Topic: Jewelry robberies.
Reward Books: “Kansas City Office,” Kansas City, Kans.: Photographs,
1923–1930.
Reward Books: Miscellaneous reward notices and Wanted Posters, 1867–
1937, n.d [1 of 2].
Major Topics: Bond robberies; jewelry robberies; fraud.
Reward Books: Miscellaneous reward notices and Wanted Posters, 1867–
1937, n.d [2 of 2].
Major Topics: Jewelry robberies; homicide.
Reward Books: Pinkerton’s Bank and Banker’s Protection Bulletins, 1914–
1934 [1 of 6].
Major Topic: Forgery.
Reward Books: Pinkerton’s Bank and Banker’s Protection Bulletins, 1914–
1934 [2 of 6].
Major Topics: Homicide; fraud; embezzlement.
Reward Books: Pinkerton’s Bank and Banker’s Protection Bulletins, 1914–
1934 [3 of 6].
Major Topics: Jewelry robberies; homicide.
Reward Books: Pinkerton’s Bank and Banker’s Protection Bulletins, 1914–
1934 [4 of 6].
Major Topics: Jewelry robberies; fraud.
Reward Books: Pinkerton’s Bank and Banker’s Protection Bulletins, 1914–
1934 [5 of 6].
Major Topics: Jewelry robberies; homicide.
Reward Books: Pinkerton’s Bank and Banker’s Protection Bulletins, 1914–
1934 [6 of 6].
Major Topics: Escaped prisoners; homicide; jewelry robberies.
Siringo, Charles A., Lawsuits: Correspondence and Legal Documents, 1911,
1923, 1950, n.d.
Major Topics: Pinkerton Agency attempts to block publication of Riata and
Spurs; Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency v. Charles A. Siringo and
W. B. Conkey Company.
Principal Correspondents: H. H. Lintner; Asher Rosetter; Lowell Spence.
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Siringo, Charles A., Lawsuits: Disputed Publications: Pinkerton’s Cowboy
Detective. A True Story of Twenty-Two Years with Pinkerton’s National
Detective Agency, 1910.
Major Topics: Haymarket riot, Chicago, Ill., 1884; Archuleta County, N.M.,
uprising; undercover operations; homicide of Ute Indians by white
ranchers; railroad robberies; prisoners; Aspen Mining & Smelting
Company; mine salting; James McParland; attempted homicide of C. W.
Price and George Peltier; Las Gorras Blancas (White Caps), Mexican
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American vigilante organization; smallpox; Charles A. Siringo union
infiltration and resulting Coeur D’Alene, Idaho miner’s strike, 1892;
railroad inspections; Treadwell Gold Mill Juneau, Alaska, robbery; bounty
hunting; Bill Blank cattle theft; Wild Bunch gang infiltration; Harvey “Kid
Curry” Logan; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints; investigation
of Reed Smoot; kidnapping and homicide of Edward Wentz; bootlegging;
Western Federation of Miners; Harry Orchard (born Albert Horsley).
0539 Siringo, Charles A., Lawsuits: Disputed publications: Riata and Spurs, 1919.
Major Topics: Cowboys; buffalo; Chisholm Trail; Indian wars; Henry “Billy
the Kid” McCarty; Oklahoma Territory; Texas; John Wesley Harden;
James “Wild Bill” Butler Hickok; William Preston Longley; Benjamin
Thompson; John King Fisher; Clay Allison; John Sellman; Sam Bass;
Marlow brothers gang; James Miller; Tom Horn; Apache Indians;
Goyathlay “Geronimo”.
0693 Siringo, Charles A., Lawsuits: Disputed publications: Two Evil Isms:
Pinkertonism and Anarchism, 1915.
Major Topics: Haymarket riot, Chicago, Ill., 1884; Archuleta County, N.M.,
uprising; election fraud; Las Gorras Blancas (White Caps), Mexican
American vigilante organization; Charles A. Siringo union infiltration and
resulting Coeur D’Alene, Idaho miner’s strike, 1892; Tom Horn; bounty
hunting; mine salting; Wild Bunch gang infiltration; bootlegging; Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints; investigation of Reed Smoot.
0751 Subject File: Abbot, Henry L., Civil War Army Engineer, ca. 1865, 1955,
1964, n.d.
Major Topics: Donation of Henry L. Abbot memorabilia to the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers Museum (Va.); Abbot diaries.
0872 Subject File: Communism, 1934–1936, n.d [1 of 4].
Major Topics: Anti-communist legislation; deportation; Pope Pius XI.
0910 Subject File: Communism, 1934–1936, n.d [2 of 4].
Major Topic: Organizations opposed to communism.
[Editorial Note: Communism, 1934–1936, 1947, 1956, n.d., folders 3 and 4, contain
bound volumes. In order to comply with Library of Congress regulations,
LexisNexis has not microfilmed these two folders.]
0937 Subject File: Detective Agents, Advertisements, 1893–1910, n.d.
Major Topics: Merchants’ Detective Agency; Merchant’s Patrol and
Information Bureau; Thiel’s Detective Service; Patterson’s Detective
Agency; Stedman Detective Service; Missouri Valley Detective
Association; Mintz Detective Agency; Ontario Detective Agency; St. Paul
Fire & Marine Insurance Co.; Pottstown Detective Agency; Canadian
Secret Service Agency; Hooks Detective Agency; Hawkeye Detective
Agency; International Detective Association; Whitney & Lee Law,
Collection, and Detective Agency; Agencia de Servicio Secreto;
Philippines Secret Service; Standard Secret Service Bureau; Chrisman’s
Detective Agency; Cedar Rapids Detective Agency Secret Service;
Mostyn Detective Agency; Ozark Detective Agency; Metropolitan
Detective Agency.
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Subject File: Horan, James D., Book on Mathew B. Brady, 1955.
Major Topics: Detective agencies; Mathew Brady: Historian with a Camera
(book).
Subject File: Philadelphia, Pa., Poison Ring, 1922, 1939–1940, 1949.
Major Topics: Jewelry robberies; Jews.
Subject File: Stader, Phoebe, Murder of, 1931, 1950.
Major Topics: Investigation of Phoebe Stader homicide committed by
William M. Frazer in Rahway, N.J.; Frazer execution.
Wm J. Burns International Detective Agency, investigations of improper
conduct: Correspondence, 1917–1920, n.d.
Major Topics: Unethical client selection practices; Detectifone, electronic
surveillance device.
Principal Correspondent: Allan Pinkerton.
Wm. J. Burns Agency, improper conduct: criminal case mat’l, Bourdon,
Oswin, 1909, 1917–1918, n.d.
Major Topic: Oswin T. Bourdon criminal record.
Wm. J. Burns Agency, improper conduct: criminal case mat’l, Burns, Walter
J., 1917, n.d.
Major Topics: Bribery of city aldermen in Detroit, Mich.; Wabash Railroad
Company.
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Wm. J. Burns Agency, improper conduct: criminal case mat’l, De Corompa,
Edwin Joseph Brunswick, 1914–1917, n.d.
Major Topics: William J. Burns International Detective Agency employees;
framing of George Koscak for a bombing plot; David Boitano.
Wm. J. Burns Agency, improper conduct: criminal case mat’l, Hanson,
Thomas G., 1914–1917, n.d.
Major Topics: William J. Burns International Detective Agency employees;
bribery; Frank M. Packard.
Wm. J. Burns Agency, improper conduct: criminal case mat’l, Kitzelman,
Frank and William, 1912–1917, n.d.
Major Topics: Frank Kitzelman criminal conviction; William Kitzelman
criminal conviction.
Wm. J. Burns Agency, improper conduct: criminal case mat’l, Knox, Daisy,
1913–1917, n.d.
Major Topics: William J. Burns International Detective Agency employees;
criminal convictions of Daisy Knox, Alexander Campbell, Burton
Harrison, Neva Friedlander, and Leon Friedlander for making false
allegations; paternity claims; births out of wedlock.
Wm. J. Burns Agency, improper conduct: criminal case mat’l, Landers,
Tony, 1919, n.d.
Major Topics: Forgery; William J. Burns International Detective Agency
employees.
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0312
0388
0472
0491
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0550
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0652
Wm. J. Burns Agency, improper conduct: criminal case mat’l, Lillegren,
Arthur, 1917, n.d.
Major Topic: William J. Burns International Detective Agency employees.
Wm. J. Burns Agency, improper conduct: criminal case mat’l, Means,
Gaston B., 1917–1919, n.d.
Major Topics: William J. Burns International Detective Agency employees;
sabotage; bombs.
Wm. J. Burns Agency, improper conduct: criminal case mat’l,
Miscellaneous, 1900, 1912–1918, n.d [1 of 2].
Major Topics: William J. Burns International Detective Agency employees;
Charles Layton aka Count Brunswick; Edward S. Reed; Harry Dougherty;
John Murtland; Walter S. Gordon; W. F. Hutchinson; W. P. McComes;
James S. “Goose Neck” Johnson; Daniel S. Lehon; Charles Haas.
Wm. J. Burns Agency, improper conduct: criminal case mat’l,
Miscellaneous, 1900, 1912–1918, n.d [2 of 2].
Major Topics: Arthur Miller railroad equipment theft charge; William J.
Burns International Detective Agency employees; H. P. Murphy perjury
charge; Joseph Nowak; Arthur B. Owens; Leonard Priester Jr.; J. M.
Sloan.
Wm. J. Burns Agency, improper conduct: criminal case mat’l, Nott, Charles
E., 1912–1917, n.d.
Major Topics: William J. Burns International Detective Agency employees;
Francis X. O’Leary; Clarence L. Smith.
Wm. J. Burns Agency, improper conduct: criminal case mat’l, Pickard,
Frank, 1914–1917, n.d.
Major Topics: William J. Burns International Detective Agency employees;
bribery.
Wm. J. Burns Agency, improper conduct: criminal case mat’l, Rawley,
Frederick, 1917, n.d.
Major Topic: William J. Burns International Detective Agency employees.
Wm. J. Burns Agency, improper conduct: criminal case mat’l, Rosene,
Harry, 1917, 1924, n.d.
Major Topic: William J. Burns International Detective Agency employees.
Wm. J. Burns Agency, improper conduct: criminal case mat’l, Russell,
Walter H., 1917, n.d.
Major Topics: William J. Burns International Detective Agency employees;
bribery; Mrs. A. B. McClaughry; libel; forgery.
Wm. J. Burns Agency, improper conduct: criminal case mat’l, Wilson, Elmer
L., 1916, n.d.
Major Topics: William J. Burns International Detective Agency employees;
blackmail; explosives.
Wm. J. Burns Agency, improper conduct: In Re: Revocation… Briefs, n.d.
Major Topic: William J. Burns International Detective Agency license
revocation and improper conduct.
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Wm. J. Burns Agency, improper conduct: In Re: Revocation… Hearing
transcripts, 1917 Apr.–Aug [1 of 10].
Major Topics: William J. Burns International Detective Agency employees,
improper conduct, and license revocation; labor unions.
0941 Wm. J. Burns Agency, improper conduct: In Re: Revocation… Hearing
transcripts, 1917 Apr.–Aug [2 of 10].
Major Topics: William J. Burns International Detective Agency employees,
improper conduct, and license revocation; abortion; wiretapping.
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Wm. J. Burns Agency, improper conduct: In Re: Revocation… Hearing
transcripts, 1917 Apr.–Aug [3 of 10].
Major Topics: William J. Burns International Detective Agency license
revocation; wiretapping; bookkeeping.
Wm. J. Burns Agency, improper conduct: In Re: Revocation… Hearing
transcripts, 1917 Apr.–Aug [4 of 10].
Major Topics: William J. Burns International Detective Agency license
revocation; homicide; witness tampering; record keeping.
Wm. J. Burns Agency, improper conduct: In Re: Revocation… Hearing
transcripts, 1917 Nov.–Dec [5 of 10].
Major Topics: William J. Burns International Detective Agency license
revocation; Oregon land fraud scandal; jury tampering; trials; record
keeping; Willard N. Jones pardon application.
Wm. J. Burns Agency, improper conduct: In Re: Revocation… Hearing
transcripts, 1918–1919 [6 of 10].
Major Topics: William J. Burns International Detective Agency license
revocation and employees; abortion; uniforms; improper client selection;
record keeping; Oregon land fraud scandal; jury tampering; trials.
Wm. J. Burns Agency, improper conduct: In Re: Revocation… Hearing
transcripts, 1918–1919 [7 of 10].
Major Topics: William J. Burns International Detective Agency license
revocation and employees; Daniel S. Lehon; improper client selection;
jury tampering; wiretapping.
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Wm. J. Burns Agency, improper conduct: In Re: Revocation… Hearing
transcripts, 1918–1919 [8 of 10].
Major Topics: William J. Burns International Detective Agency license
revocation and employees; bootlegging; Daniel S. Lehon; improper client
selection; World War I; undercover operations; divorce; Harry C. Brandon
arrest; Frank M. Packard.
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0379
0679
0760
0823
Wm. J. Burns Agency, improper conduct: In Re: Revocation… Hearing
transcripts, 1918–1919 [9 of 10].
Major Topics: William J. Burns International Detective Agency license
revocation; Ethel Kirby; Arthur Acrement fraud conspiracy charge;
securities.
Wm. J. Burns Agency, improper conduct: In Re: Revocation… Hearing
transcripts, 1918–1919 [10 of 10].
Major Topics: William J. Burns International Detective Agency license
revocation; Arthur Acrement fraud conspiracy charge; Burns Agency
interaction with Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency; securities;
wiretapping.
Wm. J. Burns Agency, improper conduct: Notes and Memoranda, 1911–
1920, n.d [1 of 3].
Major Topics: William J. Burns International Detective Agency employees;
wiretapping; Harry K. Thaw escape from the Mattewan State Hospital for
the Criminally Insane (New York); World War I; Gaston B. Means;
subversive activities; boxing; bootlegging.
Wm. J. Burns Agency, improper conduct: Notes and Memoranda, 1911–
1920, n.d [2 of 3].
Major Topics: William J. Burns International Detective Agency employees;
American Bankers Association; advertising.
Wm. J. Burns Agency, improper conduct: In Re: Revocation… 1911–1920,
n.d [3 of 3].
Major Topics: William J. Burns International Detective Agency employees;
Grover C. Bergdoll draft evasion; gambling; divorce; jury tampering;
World War I; subversive activities; Pinkerton’s Agency investigation of
Burns Agency; John D. Sabro; Burns Agency license revocation.
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PRINCIPAL CORRESPONDENTS INDEX
The following index is an alphabetical listing of the principal correspondents in this
microform publication. The first number after each entry refers to the reel, while the four-digit
number following the colon refers to the frame number at which a particular file folder
containing the document from the source begins. Hence, 4: 0720 directs the researcher to the
folder that begins at Frame 0720 of Reel 4. By referring to the Reel Index, which constitutes the
initial section of this guide, researchers will find a document list including folder titles and major
topics in the order in which they appear in the film.
Dougherty, Harry V.
5: 0614
Dudley, Anna H.
5: 0659
Dudley, Ralph
1: 0861; 2: 0001; 3: 0001, 0357, 0442;
4: 0864; 5: 0252, 0342; 8: 0213;
9: 0353
Duhain, Clovis E.
5: 0697
Dwyer, W. E.
7: 0001
Estes, J. H.
6: 0856
Felton, S. M.
3: 0221
Finnerty, T. J.
5: 0342, 0470, 0659, 0786
Fox, Daniel William
5: 0826, 0931; 6: 0001
Fraser, John C.
3: 0781; 4: 0001, 0909; 7: 0001; 6: 0083
Fuller, G. A.
6: 0685
Gaylor, Edward S.
4: 0720; 5: 0252; 6: 0146; 9: 0353, 0878;
10: 0070, 0238, 0567
Gould, Norman J.
3: 0001
Ballantine, Alexander
4: 0720
Bangs, George D.
4: 0001, 0959; 5: 0252, 0614; 6: 0146,
0510, 0685; 7: 0001, 0510, 0929;
9: 0353
Bearce, Herbert W.
5: 0252; 9: 0878; 10: 0238, 0567
Beutler, Seymour
4: 0809
Brady, Samuel
4: 0864
Bryan, G. S.
3: 0357
Bush, Nelson W.
4: 0909
Camden, J. O.
7: 0656; 8: 0213
Carleton, E. S.
5: 0120
Chambers, John A.
5: 0001
Corona, Joseph
4: 0001
Cowardin, A. S.
5: 0120
Dimaio, Francis P.
2: 0882; 5: 0252, 0342, 0470
Dougherty, George S.
5: 0614
29
Pinkerton, William A.
3: 0781; 4: 0001, 0720–0740, 0809,
0909, 0959, 0998; 5: 0252, 0697;
6: 0083–0146, 0335; 7: 0001, 0510,
0929; 8: 0053; 9: 0618, 0878;
10: 0070–0567
Robinson, Sarah Webster
3: 0781; 4: 0001
Rosetter, Asher
4: 0998; 5: 0931; 7: 0510, 0656; 9: 0353;
17: 0660
Sanford, Henry
3: 0001
Schumacher, J. H.
8: 0101; 9: 0618, 0878
Spence, Lowell
17: 0660
Stancliff, G. L.
7: 0656
Sterns, William
3: 0221
Stiles, Standish L.
6: 0304, 0856; 7: 0864
Swiggett, Howard
1: 0861
Thiele, S. C.
6: 0510
Thornhill, David C.
4: 0740; 5: 0697
Turrell, O. C.
8: 0873
Wagner, W.
6: 0001; 5: 0931
Watkins, J. C.
4: 0001
Webster, Daniel
3: 0781; 8: 0082
Webster, William E.
8: 0101
Wind, Frank T.
8: 0213
Wright, Charles R.
9: 0618
Green, D. T.
6: 0374
Hatter, C. V.
7: 0001
Judd, N. B.
3: 0221
Kemble, B. F.
3: 0781; 10: 0238
Kenney, H. F.
3: 0221
Larkin, J. F.
5: 0931
Leith, George E.
6: 0374, 0510
Leith, Winnie L.
6: 0374
Lincoln, Abraham
3: 0442
Lintner, H. H.
6: 0685; 17: 0660
McMahon, Philip B.
6: 0510, 0685, 0856
McNamara, J. W.
6: 0510
McParland, James
4: 0959; 6: 0510; 7: 0001
Mosher, Herbert S.
7: 0391
Mosher, M. S.
6: 0685
Pinkerton, Allan
2: 0241; 3: 0069, 0442; 4: 0740; 6: 0374,
0510; 7: 0929; 8: 0053, 0101;
9: 0618; 10: 0567; 18: 1056
Pinkerton, Robert A.
3: 0001, 0442, 0781; 4: 0001, 0809,
0909, 0959; 5: 0601–0659; 6: 0001,
0083–0146, 0374; 7: 0001, 0510,
0614, 0929; 8: 0082; 9: 0353, 0618,
0878; 10: 0070–0567
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SUBJECT INDEX
The following index is a guide to the major topics in this microform publication. The first
number after each entry refers to the reel, while the four-digit number following the colon refers
to the frame number at which the file containing information on the subject begins. Hence,
18: 0751 directs researchers to frame 0751 of Reel 18. By referring to the Reel Index, which
constitutes the initial segment of this guide, the researcher will find topics listed in the order in
which they appear on the film.
Agencia de Servicio Secreto
18: 0937
Ahern, Philip K.
Pinkerton Agency career and death
4: 0689
Aircraft
manufacturers 11: 0340
Airlines
13: 0001
Alaska
Juneau 18: 0001
Alcohol abuse and treatment
Ballantine, Alexander 4: 0720
Fox, Daniel William 5: 0931; 6: 0001
Alcoholic beverages control laws
bootlegging 18: 0001, 0693; 21: 0001,
0679
Aliases and disguises
3: 0709
see also Code names
Allison, Clay
18: 0539
American Bankers Association
2: 0117; 15: 0194; 21: 0760
American Exchange National Bank
robbery 8: 0513
Amusement parks
13: 0406
Apache Indians
18: 0539
Abbott, Henry L.
18: 0751
Abortion
19: 0941; 20: 0664
Accident insurance
13: 0288
Accounting and auditing
accounts payable 13: 0937
billing 12: 0674
bookkeeping 11: 0913; 12: 0178, 0991;
20: 0001
general 9: 0174; 11: 0167
Acids
assault with carbolic 2: 0882
Acrement, Arthur
fraud conspiracy charge 21: 0270–0379
Administration of justice
extradition 8: 0513
trials 4: 0165; 20: 0429–0664
see also Crime and criminals
see also Criminal procedure
see also Evidence
Advertising
2: 0858; 12: 0674; 18: 0937; 21: 0760
see also Public relations
Aged and aging
employment 6: 0146
pensions 7: 0391; 9: 0353
retirement 5: 0196, 0342; 6: 0146, 0856
social security 6: 0856
31
Bakewell and Mullins (statue
manufacturers)
employee investigation 2: 0882
Ballantine, Alexander
Pinkerton Agency career and dismissal
4: 0720
Baltimore, Maryland
Lincoln, Abraham, assassination plot
1: 0291; 3: 0001–0337, 0442, 0709
national security forces 3: 0145
Third National Bank of Baltimore
8: 0565
Bangs, George D.
death from prostate disease 4: 0740,
0758
Bangs, George H.
biographical information 3: 0580
Pinkerton Agency career 4: 0758
Bank of England
fraud attempt 8: 0611
Banks and banking
American Bankers Association 2: 0117;
15: 0194; 21: 0760
American Exchange National Bank
8: 0513
Bank of England 8: 0611
employees 8: 0513; 11: 0167
First National Bank of Northfield
(Minn.) 8: 0722
Lewisburg, Pa. National Bank 8: 0804
Manhattan Savings Institution (N.Y.)
8: 0561
National Village Bank of Bowdoinham
(Maine) 8: 0660
Northampton National Bank (Mass.)
8: 0529
protection bulletins 17: 0376–0626
robberies 1: 0773; 2: 0117; 8: 0513–
0565, 0611, 0660, 0722–0804, 0866
security services 2: 0117
Third National Bank of Baltimore (Md.)
8: 0565
Walpole, N.H. Savings Bank 8: 0660
Barber and beauty shops
13: 0406
Apartment houses
11: 0340; 13: 0406
Archuleta County, New Mexico
uprising 18: 0001, 0693
Armed services
compulsory military service 21: 0823
national security 3: 0145
Arrest
Brandon, Harry C. 21: 0001
general 14: 0280, 0774–0820
Greenhow, Rose O’Neal 3: 0423
Arson
14: 0853; 15: 0001
Artifacts
see Historic documents and artifacts
Arts and the humanities
music 11: 0041
theaters 13: 0134
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Museum
(Va.) 18: 0751
see also Books and bookselling
see also Photography
Aspen Mining & Smelting Company
18: 0001
Assassination
Lincoln, Abraham 3: 0442
Lincoln, Abraham, 1861 plot 1: 0291;
3: 0001–0337, 0442, 0709
Steunenberg, Frank 1: 0773
Assault
Fox, Daniel William 5: 0931
general 14: 0355
sexual 10: 0070
with carbolic acid 2: 0882
Automobiles and automobile industry
car garages 13: 0406
Chevrolet Motor Company 11: 0199
general 11: 0913; 14: 0188
insurance 13: 0406
theft 15: 0512
Autopsy
14: 0853
Bailey, Norman T.
Pinkerton Agency career and death
4: 0701
32
Bombs
assassination of Frank Steunenberg
1: 0773
general 14: 0001, 0223; 19: 0282
framing of George Koscak 19: 0001
Books and bookselling
diaries 18: 0751
Historian with a Camera 18: 0983
The Pinkerton Story 1: 0087–0773;
2: 0001
Pinkerton’s Cowboy Detective 18: 0001
Riata and Spurs 17: 0660; 18: 0539
Two Evil Isms: Pinkertonism and
Anarchism 18: 0693
Booth, John Wilkes
artifacts 3: 0357
Bootlegging
18: 0001, 0693; 21: 0001, 0679
Bounty hunting
18: 0001, 0693
Bourdon, Oswin T.
criminal career 18: 1101
Bowdoinham, Maine
National Village Bank of Bowdoinham
8: 0660
Boxing
21: 0679
Brady, Mathew
18: 0983
Brady, Samuel
Pinkerton Agency career 4: 0864
Branch offices
Denver, Colo. 15: 0411–0705
directories and lists 2: 0647–0740,
4: 0650
general 2: 0578–0611
Hartford, Conn. 15: 0207–0303
Kansas City, Kans. 16: 0691–0884,
0975; 17: 0001–0184
locations 2: 0647–0740
New Orleans, La. 15: 0738; 16: 0001
Brandon, Harry C.
arrest 21: 0001
Breweries
see Beer and breweries
Bartlett, Dave
robberies by 8: 0660
Baseball
11: 0422
Bass, Sam
18: 0539
Bearce, H. W.
4: 0797
Beauty shops
see Barber and beauty shops
Beck, Ira L.
Pinkerton Agency career and resignation
4: 0799
Becker, Charles
robberies by 8: 0565
Beer and breweries
11: 0260
Beneficial Savings Fund of Philadelphia
(Pa.)
robbery 8: 0543
Benefit plans
see Employee benefit plans
Bergdoll, Grover C.
draft evasion 21: 0823
Beutler, Seymour
Pinkerton Agency career and health
4: 0809
Bidwell, Austin
robbery by 8: 0611
Bidwell, George
robbery by 8: 0611
Billy the Kid
see McCarty, Henry “Billy the Kid”
Births
19: 0127
Black Americans
operatives 2: 0001
Blackmail
19: 0637
Blank, Bill
cattle theft 18: 0001
Board of Directors
Pinkerton Agency 2: 0189–0476
Boitano, David
19: 0001
33
Philadelphia, Wilmington, & Baltimore
Railroad 3: 0145–0221, 0442
public utilities 11: 0260
Sierra Madre Development Company
8: 0873
small business 13: 0532
trade associations 11: 0754
W. B. Conkey Company 17: 0660
Wabash Railroad Company 18:1117
see also Accounting and auditing
see also Commercial Law
see also Employment
see also Finance
see also Insurance
see also Marketing
see also Retail trade
Business cards
2: 0578–0611
Business ethics
bribery 18: 1117; 19: 0078, 0491, 0550
see also Fraud
Business intelligence
trade secrets 14: 0529
Camden, J. O.
G. L. Stancliff conflict 7: 0656
Campbell, Alexander
criminal conviction 19: 0127
Canadian Secret Service Agency
18: 0937
Cancer
lung 7: 0864
throat 6: 0083
Capital punishment
Frazer, William M. 18: 1022
Webster, Timothy 4: 0165–0217
Carbon Dioxide Institute, Inc.
11: 0754
Cardiovascular diseases
Stancliff, G. L. 7: 0656
Carver, Arthur E.
Pinkerton Agency career and death
4: 0936
Cary, H. Frank
investigation and dismissal 4: 0959
Cassidy, Marshall
4: 0992
Bribery
see Corruption and bribery
Brunswick, Count
see Layton, Charles (also known as
Count Brunswick)
Buffalo
18: 0539
Buffalo Bill Wild West Show
7: 0354
Bullard, Charles
robberies by 8: 0597
Bureau of Investigation
establishment 3: 0580
Burglary
see Robbery and theft
Burrow Brothers gang
1: 0120; 8: 0660
Burt, W. H.
4: 0906
Bus lines
see Motor bus lines
Bush, Nelson W.
Pinkerton Agency career, debt,
tuberculosis, and death 4: 0909
Business
Aspen Mining & Smelting Company
18: 0001
Bakewell and Mullins 2: 0882
Carbon Dioxide Institute, Inc. 11: 0754
cards 2: 0578–0611
Chevrolet Motor Company 11: 0199
Chihuahua and Sinaloa Development
Company 8: 0873
construction industry 8: 0873; 13: 0406
ethics 18: 1117; 19: 0078, 0491, 0550
Frank Haffa Jewelry Store 2: 0882
Hoey Publishing Company 9: 0878
intelligence 14: 0529
International Construction Company
8: 0873
Kansas City, Mexico, & Orient Railway
Company 8: 0873
Merchants’ Union Express Co. 8: 0597
Mexican Timber Field Company 8: 0873
partnerships 10: 0775–0820
34
selection 4: 0998; 11: 0913; 12: 0295;
18: 1056; 20: 0664–0823; 21: 0001
Code names
4: 0239
see also Aliases and disguises
Coeur d’Alene, Idaho
miner’s strike, 1892 18: 0001, 0693
Colleges and universities
11: 0658
Colorado
Denver 15: 0411–0705
Spinney 2: 0882
Commercial law
contracts 9: 0473, 0580; 10: 0775;
12: 0387
copyright 9: 0492
patents 9: 0112; 11: 0167
trademarks 10: 0863; 14: 0529
see also Alcoholic beverages control
laws
see also Licenses
Communications
see Internal communications
Communism and communist parties
labor unions 1: 0672
legislation against 18: 0872
organizations opposed 18: 0910
Compulsory military service
evasion 21: 0823
Confederate Army
espionage 3: 0423
Timothy Webster execution 4: 0165–
0217
troop movements 3: 0539
Confessions
1: 0773; 14: 0280, 0853
Connecticut
Hartford 15: 0207–0303
Construction industry
general 13: 0406
International Construction Company
8: 0873
Contracts
general 9: 0473; 10: 0775
government 9: 0580; 12: 0387
Cavoroc, Pierre Charles
Pinkerton Agency career and
investigation 4: 0998
Cedar Rapids Detective Agency Secret
Service
18: 0937
Chambers, Benjamin F.
4: 1025
Chambers, John A.
Pinkerton Agency career 5: 0001
Charlesworth, George D.
5: 0050
Chevrolet Motor Company
11: 0199
Chicago, Illinois
Haymarket riot, 1884 18: 0001, 0693
patrol collections 9: 0054
Chihuahua and Sinaloa Development
Company
8: 0873
Chisholm Trail
18: 0539
Chrisman’s Detective Agency
18: 0937
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day
Saints
18: 0001, 0693
Church, Jason R.
Pinkerton Agency career 5: 0057
Cirrhosis
Bush, Nelson W. 4: 0909
Citizenship
14: 0223
Civil engineering
18: 0751
Civil War
3: 0357–0781; 4: 0001–0217; 18: 0751
Claims
insurance 13: 0288, 0962; 14: 0946
investigations 12: 0582
paternity 19: 0127
personal injury 13: 0962
Clients
general 2: 0882; 12: 0674
insurance company 11: 0340
retention 11: 0125
35
Cruzan, William
Union Pacific Railroad robbery 8: 0695
Cummings, Dave
robberies by 8: 0660
Darrow, Clarence
1: 0773
Davis, Frank H.
Pinkerton Agency career 5: 0181
De Corompa, Edwin Joseph Brunswick
19: 0001
Death and dying
Ahern, Philip K. 4: 0689
autopsy 14: 0853
Bailey, Norman T. 4: 0701
Bangs, George D. 4: 0740, 0758
Bush, Nelson W. 4: 0909
capital punishment 4: 0165–0217;
18: 1022
Carver, Arthur E. 4: 0936
Cornish, John 5: 0094
Dimaio, Francis P. 7: 0451
Duhain, Clovis E. 5: 0697
Fraser, John C. 6: 0083
Leith, George E. 6: 0374
McParland, James 7: 0001–0227
Murphy, Christopher C. 7: 0427
Murray, Frank 5: 0470
Pinkerton, Allan 2: 0189
Stiles, Standish L. 7: 0864
Thornhill, David C. 7: 0929
Webster, Daniel 4: 0001
Wind, Frank T. 8: 0213
see also Assassination
Debt
see Personal debt
Denver, Colorado
branch office 15: 0411–0705
Department stores
general 13: 0146
inspections 11: 0658
Deportation
18: 0872
Detectifone
18: 1056
Detective agencies
9: 0878; 10: 0238; 18: 0937–0983
Convictions
see Sentences, criminal procedure
Copyright
9: 0492
Cornish, John
Pinkerton Agency career and death
5: 0094
Correspondence schools and courses
Pinkerton’s United States Detective
Agency 9: 0618–0878; 10: 0001,
0238–0567
Corruption and bribery
18: 1117; 19: 0078, 0491, 0550
Cowardin, A. S.
Pinkerton Agency career and health
5: 0120
Cowboys
18: 0539
Crawford, Edmund S.
theft 8: 0513
Crime and criminals
arson 14: 0853; 15: 0001
blackmail 19: 0637
bootlegging 18: 0001, 0693; 21: 0001,
0679
bribery 18: 1117; 19: 0078, 0491, 0550
gambling 21: 0823
perjury 19: 0388
pickpockets 4: 0423; 7: 0354
prostitution 2: 0882
sabotage 11: 0340; 13: 0686; 19: 0282
shoplifters 9: 0453; 12: 0178, 0518;
13: 0146
ticket scalpers 7: 0354
see also Fraud
see also individual criminals
see also Organized crime
see also Robbery and theft
see also Violence
Crime scene investigation
14: 0853
Criminal procedure
searches and seizures 14: 0774
sentences 19: 0109–0127
see also Arrest
see also Juries
36
see also William J. Burns International
Detective Agency
Detective licenses
see Licenses
Detroit, Michigan
alderman bribery 18: 1117
Diaries
Abbott, Henry L. 18: 0751
Diehl, Samuel B.
Pinkerton Agency career and retirement
5: 0196
Dimaio, Francis P.
biographical information 5: 0470
death 7: 0451
family 5: 0342
organized crime investigation 1: 0672
Pinkerton Agency career 5: 0252–0342
religious observances 5: 0252
retirement 5: 0342
Directories
offices and managers 4: 0650
Disability insurance
claims 13: 0637
worker’s compensation 13: 0406
Diseases and disorders
alcohol abuse 4: 0720; 5: 0931; 6: 0001
cancer 6: 0083; 7: 0864
cardiovascular diseases 7: 0656
cirrhosis 4: 0909
food poisoning 13: 0266
general 13: 0962
mental health and illness 14: 0280
prostate 4: 0740–0758
smallpox 18: 0001
stroke 6: 0146
tuberculosis 4: 0909; 6: 0510, 0685
District of Columbia
Frank Haffa Jewelry Store 2: 0882
Dividends and interest income
2: 0241–0476; 10: 0894
Divorce
21: 0001, 0823
Donnelly, Charles S.
Pinkerton Agency career and family
5: 0601
Dougherty, George S.
Pinkerton Agency career and
biographical information 5: 0614
Dougherty, Harry
19: 0312
Draft
see Compulsory military service
Dudley, Ralph
Pinkerton Agency career 5: 0659
Duhain, Clovis E.
Pinkerton Agency career, death, and
attempted homicide 5: 0697
Dunlap, James
robberies by 8: 0529
Education
colleges and universities 11: 0658
see also Correspondence schools and
courses
Elections
fraud 18: 0693
Electronic surveillance
Detectifone 18: 1056
video and film 13: 0637
wiretapping 19: 0941; 20: 0001, 0823;
21: 0379–0679
Elevators
13: 0406
Elliott, Joseph
robberies by 8: 0565
Embezzlement
see Fraud
Employee benefit plans
spouse 4: 0001; 5: 0659, 0786; 6: 0374;
7: 0001; 8: 0001
Employment
aged 6: 0146
background checks 11: 0125; 13: 0146,
0501, 0686
Bakewell and Mullins 2: 0882
banks 8: 0513; 11: 0167
black operatives 2: 0001
operative hiring guidelines 2: 0001
Pinkerton Agency 11: 0913; 12: 0451,
0674, 0878; 13: 0780–0851
railroads 13: 0052–0082
women operatives 2: 0882; 3: 0709
37
Homestead, Pa. gun battle 1: 0672,
0861; 2: 0001
First National Bank of Northfield (Minn.)
robbery 8: 0722
Fisher, John King
18: 0539
Food adulteration and inspection
11: 0260
Food industry
liquor 11: 0260, 0754
livestock 18: 0001–0539
restaurants 13: 0406
Food poisoning
13: 0266
Football
11: 0422
Forgery
2: 0117; 11: 0167; 15: 0411, 0612–0705;
16: 0402, 0884; 17: 0376; 19: 0235,
0550
Forsee, William F.
Pinkerton Agency career 5: 0815
Fox, Daniel William
alcohol abuse 5: 0931; 6: 0001
assault 5: 0931
financial problems 5: 0931
leg injury 5: 0826
Pinkerton Agency career 5: 0826–0931;
6: 0001
Frank Haffa Jewelry Store (D.C.)
robbery 2: 0882
Franklin, Benjamin
6: 0079
Fraser, John C.
Pinkerton Agency career, interviews,
auto accident, and death 6: 0083
Fraud
Bank of England 8: 0611
election 18: 0693
embezzlement 4: 0959; 16: 0252, 0691,
0884; 17: 0426
general 16: 0355, 0691; 17: 0001, 0256,
0426, 0539; 21: 0270–0379
mail 9: 0618–0878; 10: 0070, 0567
Oregon land scandal 20: 0429–0664
see also Forgery
Employment cont.
performance investigations 11: 0199,
0422
youth 6: 0510
see also Labor unions
see also Occupations
Erb, Jesse
Pinkerton Agency career 5: 0771
Espionage
3: 0423, 0539–0619; 4: 0217
Esten, Alfred A.
5: 0786
Evidence
collection 12: 0001, 0178, 0518, 0878;
13: 0565; 14: 0715, 0853; 15: 0001
Exhibitions and trade fairs
11: 0422; 14: 0090
Explosives
14: 0355, 0675; 19: 0637
see also Bombs
Extradition
8: 0513
Fallon, James J.
5: 0807
Families
Dimaio, Francis P. 5: 0342
Donnelly, Charles S. 5: 0601
Irle, Andrew 6: 0335
McMahon, Philip B. 6: 0510
Webster, Timothy 3: 0781; 4: 0001
Webster, William E. 8: 0101
Wind, Frank T. 8: 0213
Farrington, Hillary
1: 0120
Farrington, Levi
1: 0120
Field, William
5: 0811
Finance
9: 0001–0174; 12: 0991
see also Dividends and interest income
Fire insurance
13: 0565; 15: 0001; 18: 0937
Firearms
armed robbery 16: 0884
general 14: 0001–0090
38
Hanscom, Orinton M.
6: 0243
Hanson, Thomas G.
19: 0078
Harden, John Wesley
18: 0539
Harries, John A.
Pinkerton Agency career 6: 0265
Harrison, Burton
criminal conviction 19: 0127
Hartford, Connecticut
branch office 15: 0207–0303
Hatfield, Oliver R.
Pinkerton Agency career 6: 0282
Hawes, Frederick M.
6: 0295
Hawkeye Detective Agency
18: 0937
Hay, George
6: 0298
Haymarket riot, 1884 (Chicago, Ill.)
18: 0001, 0693
Health condition
Beutler, Seymour 4: 0809
Cowardin, A. S. 5: 0120
eye injuries 7: 0929
Fox, Daniel William 5: 0826
McParland, James 7: 0001–0227
Health facilities and services
abortion 19: 0941; 20: 0664
expenses 4: 0001
see also Alcohol abuse and treatment
Health insurance
13: 0288
Hedgepeth, Marion
criminal career 1: 0672
Hey, Charles D.
6: 0300
Hickok, James “Wild Bill” Butler
18: 0539
Historian with a Camera (book)
18: 0983
Historic documents and artifacts
Booth, John Wilkes 3: 0357
Frazer, William M.
homicide and execution 18: 1022
Fredericks, Mrs. George
investigation of 2: 0882
Freight
general 11: 0754
handlers strike 7: 0510
Friedlander, Leon
criminal conviction 19: 0127
Friedlander, Neva
criminal conviction 19: 0127
Gambling
21: 0823
see also Horse racing
Gangs
see Organized crime
Gasoline service stations
inspections 11: 0422
Gaylor, Edward S.
strokes and retirement 6: 0146
Geronimo
see Goyathlay “Geronimo”
Golf
11: 0422
Gordon, Walter S.
19: 0312
Government contracts
general 12: 0387
with Pinkerton Agency 9: 0580
Government corporations
Reconstruction Finance Corp. 9: 0580
War Assets Corp. 9: 0580
Government documents
14: 0774
Goyathlay “Geronimo”
18: 0539
Graham, George S.
6: 0230
Green, D. T.
6: 0232
Greenhow, Rose O’Neal
surveillance and arrest 3: 0423
Grogan, Edward F.
6: 0234
Haas, Charles
19: 0312
39
Housing
apartment houses 11: 0340; 13: 0406
theft inspections 13: 0532
Howes, Earl J.
killing of William A. Phelan 6: 0304
Pinkerton Agency career 6: 0304
Hunsdorfer, Frank
6: 0332
Hutchinson, W. F.
19: 0312
Idaho
Coeur d’Alene 18: 0001, 0693
Identification badges
11: 0422
Illinois
Chicago 9: 0054; 18: 0001, 0693
Indian wars
18: 0539
Indiana
New Albany 1: 0120
Industrial accidents and safety
11: 0260; 14: 0756
Industrial plants and equipment
inspections of 14: 0756
safety 11: 0260; 14: 0756
theft 11: 0340
World War II 13: 0686; 14: 0223
Inflammable materials
13: 0565; 15: 0001
Informants
4: 0239
Inspection services
airlines 13: 0001
apartment houses 11: 0340
bus lines 12: 0844; 13: 0113
department stores 11: 0658
gas stations 11: 0422
hotels 11: 0260; 13: 0247
industrial plant safety 11: 0260; 14: 0756
insurance risk 13: 0288
railroads 13: 0034–0082; 18: 0001
residences 13: 0532
risk 13: 0406
small business 13: 0532
theaters 13: 0134
History
Pinkerton Agency 1: 0001–0861;
2: 0001; 9: 0353; 13: 0958; 14: 0090,
0687; 15: 0129–0137
Hoey Publishing Company
9: 0878
Homestead, Pennsylvania
striking workers gun battle, 1892
1: 0672, 0861; 2: 0001
Homicide
Duhain, Clovis E., attempted 5: 0697
general 1: 0475; 14: 0453, 0853;
15: 0207–0303, 0612–0705;
16: 0800–0884, 0975; 17: 0001,
0319, 0426–0472, 0580–0626;
20: 0245
Jones, Gomer 1: 0475
McMahon, Philip B. 6: 0856
Peltier, George, attempted 18: 0001
Price, C. W., attempted 18: 0001
spousal 3: 0709
Stader, Phoebe 18: 1022
Ute Indians 18: 0001
Wentz, Edward 18: 0001
see also Assassination
Homosexuality
6: 0856
Hooks Detective Agency
18: 0937
Hope, James
robberies by 8: 0543
Horan, James D.
Historian with a Camera 18: 0983
The Pinkerton Story 1: 0087–0773
Horn, Tom
18: 0539–0693
Horse racing
1: 0672; 5: 0931; 6: 0001; 9: 0437;
12: 0178
Horsley, Albert
see Orchard, Harry
Hotels and motels
general 13: 0406
inspections of 11: 0260; 13: 0247
theft 4: 0338
40
Pinkerton Agency career 6: 0335;
9: 0353
James and Younger gang
robberies by 8: 0722
Jewelers’ Security Alliance
1: 0672; 9: 0453
Jewelry
robberies 1: 0773; 2: 0882; 14: 0001;
15: 0207–0303, 0512–0612, 0738;
16: 0001–0453, 0652–0884, 0975;
17: 0001–0144, 0256–0319, 0472–
0626; 18: 1003
Jews
18: 1003
Johnson, James S. “Goose Neck”
19: 0312
Jones, Gomer
homicide 1: 0475
Jones, Willard N.
pardon application 20: 0429
Juneau, Alaska
Treadwell Gold Mill 18: 0001
Juries
tampering 20: 0429–0823; 21: 0823
Kansas City, Kansas
branch office 16: 0691–0884, 0975;
17: 0001–0184
general 13: 0001–0851
Kansas City, Mexico, & Orient Railway
Company
8: 0873
Kehoe, Jack
criminal career 1: 0475
Kemble, Benjamin F.
Pinkerton Agency career 6: 0349
Kennedy, John A.
Lincoln, Abraham, assassination plot
claims 3: 0069, 0221
Kid Curry
see Logan, Harvey “Kid Curry”
Kidnapping
general 8: 0529
of Wentz, Edward 18: 0001
Insurance
accident 13: 0288
automobile 13: 0406
claims 13: 0288, 0962; 14: 0946
client retention 11: 0340
disability 13: 0406, 0637
fire insurance 13: 0565; 15: 0001;
18: 0937
general 12: 0080, 0991
health 13: 0288
liability 13: 0406, 0962; 14: 0090
life 13: 0288
medical malpractice 13: 0406
risk inspections 13: 0288
social security 6: 0856
St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Co.
18: 0937
Internal communications
guidelines 12: 0594
International Construction Company
8: 0873
International Detective Association
18: 0937
Investigations
Bakewell and Mullins 2: 0882
Cary, Frank H. 4: 0959
claims 12: 0582; 14: 0946
crime scenes 14: 0853
employee performance 11: 0199, 0422
Fredericks, Mrs. George 2: 0882
general 13: 0962
labor unions 12: 0295
organized crime 1: 0672
Pinkerton, David W. 10: 0070, 0567
Rogers, Joe 2: 0882
secret 14: 0756
Sharp, Rose A. 2: 0882
Simms, Joseph 2: 0882
Smoot, Reed 18: 0001, 0693
Stader, Phoebe, homicide 18: 1022
Western Federation of Miners 7: 0001
William J. Burns International Detective
Agency 21: 0823
Irle, Andrew
family 6: 0335
41
Law enforcement
police 3: 0069, 0221
polygraphs 15: 0001
runaway and missing persons 13: 0962
see also Detective agencies
see also Electronic surveillance
Lawlor, James J.
6: 0372
Lawsuits
Pinkerton v. Pinkerton 9: 0602, 0878;
10: 0001, 0238–0567
Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency
v. Charles A. Siringo and W. B.
Conkey Company 17: 0660
Siringo, Charles A. 18: 0001–0693
Lawyers
11: 0167, 0340
Layton, Charles (also known as Count
Brunswick)
19: 0312
Lehon, Daniel S.
19: 0312; 20: 0823; 21: 0001
Leith, George E.
Pinkerton Agency career, job offers, and
death 6: 0374
Leslie, George Leonidas
robberies by 8: 0773
Lewis, Pryce
3: 0539, 0619
Lewisburg, Pa. National Bank
robbery 8: 0804
Liability insurance
13: 0406, 0962; 14: 0090
Libel and slander
19: 0550
Licenses
detective 19: 0652–0941; 20: 0001–
0823; 21: 0001–0379, 0823
general 11: 0053; 14: 0090
Lie detection
14: 0090
see also Polygraphs
Life insurance
13: 0288
Lillegren, Arthur
19: 0266
Killoran, Joseph
assistance from the Pinkerton Agency
8: 0804
criminal career 8: 0543, 0804
robberies by 8: 0543, 0804
Kilpatrick, Ben
Union Pacific Railroad robbery 8: 0695
Kirby, Ethel
21: 0270
Kitzelman, Frank
criminal conviction 19: 0109
Kitzelman, William
criminal conviction 19: 0109
Knox, Daisy
criminal conviction 19: 0127
Koscak, George
framing for bomb plot 19: 0001
Labor unions
Charles Siringo infiltration 18: 0001,
0693
communism in 1: 0672
general 1: 0475; 9: 0470; 19: 0709
investigation of 12: 0295
legislation sponsorship 14: 0090
Western Federation of Miners 1: 0773;
4: 0959; 7: 0001; 18: 0001
Land ownership and rights
fraud scandal 20: 0429–0664
Landers, Tony
19: 0235
Larkin, J. F.
6: 0368
Las Gorras Blancas (White Caps)
18: 0001, 0693
Laughlin, W. B.
6: 0370
Law
civil and criminal 14: 0276–0529
lawyers 11: 0167, 0340
tort 14: 0529
U.S. statutes 9: 0580; 18: 0872
see also Commercial law
see also Law enforcement
see also Lawsuits
42
Manufacturing and manufactured
products
aircraft 11: 0340
see also Industrial plants and equipment
see also Mines and mining
Marketing
Pinkerton Agency services 11: 0125–
0422
see also Advertising
Marlow brothers gang
18: 0539
Marriage
spousal homicide 3: 0709
Maryland
Baltimore 1: 0291; 3: 0001–0337, 0442,
0709; 8: 0565
Mass media
press 6: 0083
see also Marketing
Massachusetts
Northampton National Bank 8: 0529
Mattewan State Hospital for the
Criminally Insane (New York)
Harry K. Thaw escape 21: 0679
McCarty, Henry “Billy the Kid”
18: 0539
McClaughry, Mrs. A. B.
19: 0550
McComes, W. P.
19: 0312
McGinn, John
6: 0489
McInnes, William
6: 0508
McMahon, Philip B.
divorce 6: 0856
family 6: 0510
homicide 6: 0856
Pinkerton Agency career 6: 0510, 0685–
0856
retirement 6: 0856
robbery 6: 0856
tuberculosis 6: 0510, 0685
McMullin, H. R.
6: 0945
Lincoln, Abraham
assassination 3: 0442
assassination plot, 1861 1: 0291;
3: 0001–0337, 0442, 0709
security 1: 0291; 3: 0069–0337, 0442
Linden, Robert J.
biographical information 6: 0449
Pinkerton Agency career 6: 0449
Liquor and liquor industry
11: 0260, 0754
Littlejohn, Joseph
6: 0444
Livestock and livestock industry
buffalo 18: 0539
cattle theft 18: 0001
ranchers 18: 0001
Loans
9: 0112
Local government
Detroit, Mich. 18: 1117
Logan, Harvey “Kid Curry”
general 18: 0001
Union Pacific Railroad robbery 8: 0695
Logos
2: 0858; 9: 0602; 11: 0001
see also Trademarks
London, United Kingdom
1: 0475
Longley, William Preston
18: 0539
Loughran, Edwin
6: 0477
Louisiana
New Orleans 15: 0738; 16: 0001
Lumber and lumber industry
Mexican Timber Field Company 8: 0873
MacDonnell, George
robbery by 8: 0611
Macguire, Ed
robberies by 8: 0660
Maine
Bowdoinham 8: 0660
Mandelbaum, Fredericka “Marm”
criminal career 8: 0640
Manhattan Savings Institution (N.Y.)
robbery 8: 0561, 0773
43
Coeur d’Alene miner’s strike, 1892
18: 0001, 0693
mine salting 18: 0001, 0693
Western Federation of Miners 1: 0773;
4: 0959; 7: 0001; 18: 0001
Minnesota
Northfield 8: 0722
Minority groups
black Americans 2: 0001
Jews 18: 1003
Mexican Americans 18: 0001, 0693
Minster, William H.
Pinkerton Agency career 7: 0354
Mintz Detective Agency
18: 0937
Missing persons
see Runaway and missing persons
Missouri
St. Louis 16: 0453–0525
Missouri Valley Detective Association
18: 0937
Molly Maguires (crime organization)
1: 0475; 7: 0001–0227
Monuments and memorials
Bakewell and Mullins 2: 0882
Mosher, Herbert S.
pension 7: 0391
Pinkerton Agency career 7: 0391
Mostyn Detective Agency
18: 0937
Motor bus lines
general 11: 0754
inspections of 12: 0844; 13: 0113
Motor transportation
bus lines 11: 0754; 12: 0844; 13: 0113
gasoline stations 11: 0422
trucks 11: 0422
see also Automobiles and automobile
industry
Mudgett, Herman
criminal career 1: 0672
Murphy, Christopher C.
Pinkerton Agency career and death
7: 0427
Murphy, H. P.
perjury charge 19: 0388
McParland, James
biographical information 7: 0001
death 7: 0001
general 7: 0313; 18: 0001
Harry Orchard confession 1: 0773
health 7: 0001–0227
Pinkerton Agency career 7: 0001–0227
undercover operations 1: 0475
Means, Gaston B.
19: 0282; 21: 0679
Medical malpractice insurance
13: 0406
Medicine
see Diseases and disorders
see Health facilities and services
Membership organizations
opposed to communism 18: 0910
Mental health and illness
14: 0280
Merchants’ Detective Agency
18: 0937
Merchant’s Patrol and Information
Bureau
18: 0937
Merchants’ Union Express Co.
robbery 8: 0597
Metropolitan Detective Agency
18: 0937
Mexican Americans
Las Gorras Blancas 18: 0001, 0693
Mexican Timber Field Company
8: 0873
Michigan
Detroit 18: 1117
Miller, Arthur
railroad equipment theft 19: 0388
Miller, Frank E.
7: 0351
Miller, James
18: 0539
Milwaukee Co-Operative Detective
Service
10: 0238
Mines and mining
Aspen Mining & Smelting Company
18: 0001
44
Murphy, John A.
7: 0445
Murphy, Richard C.
7: 0448
Murray, Frank
biographical information 7: 0451
death 5: 0470
Murtland, John
19: 0312
Music
11: 0041
Names lists
criminals 4: 0239–0423
general 9: 0060
National Village Bank of Bowdoinham
(Maine)
robbery 8: 0660
Native Americans
Apache 18: 0539
Ute 18: 0001
wars 18: 0539
Naval vessels
13: 0686; 14: 0223
New Albany, Indiana
raid 1: 0120
New Hampshire
Walpole 8: 0660
New Jersey
Rahway 18: 1022
New Mexico
Archuleta County 18: 0001, 0693
New Orleans, Louisiana
branch office 15: 0738; 16: 0001
New York
Manhattan Savings Institution 8: 0561,
0773
Mattewan State Hospital for the
Criminally Insane 21: 0679
New York City
police 3: 0069, 0221
Newspapers
3: 0221–0337, 0580; 4: 0217; 11: 0340
Noble, A. F.
7: 0471
Northampton National Bank (Mass.)
robbery 8: 0529
Northfield, Minnesota
First National Bank of Northfield
8: 0722
Nott, Charles E.
19: 0472
Nowak, Joseph
19: 0388
Noyes, Edwin
robbery by 8: 0611
Nugent, Howard W.
7: 0474
Occupations
cowboys 18: 0539
lawyers 11: 0167, 0340
office boys 6: 0510
ranchers 18: 0001
sales workers 14: 0001
see also Security guards
O’Grady, Jerome V.
7: 0483
Ohio
Salem 2: 0882
Oklahoma Territory
18: 0539
O’Leary, Francis X.
19: 0472
Ontario Detective Agency
18: 0937
Orchard, Harry
assassination of Frank Steunenberg
1: 0773
confession 1: 0773
general 18: 0001
Oregon
land fraud scandal 20: 0429–0664
Organizations
see Membership organizations
Organized crime
Burrow Brothers gang 1: 0120; 8: 0660
investigation of 1: 0672
James and Younger gang 8: 0722
Marlow brothers gang 18: 0539
Molly Maguires 1: 0475; 7: 0001–0227
Reno brothers gang 1: 0120; 8: 0850
Wild Bunch gang 2: 0117; 8: 0866;
18: 0001, 0693
45
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Beneficial Savings Fund of Philadelphia
8: 0543
general 11: 0053; 18: 1003
Philadelphia, Wilmington, & Baltimore
Railroad
3: 0145–0221, 0442
Philippines Secret Service
18: 0937
Photography
Pinkerton Agency photographs 3: 0691;
7: 0318; 8: 0282–0398; 9: 0437;
14: 0675
Pickard, Frank
19: 0491
Pickpockets
4: 0423; 7: 0354
Pinkerton v. Pinkerton
9: 0602, 0878; 10: 0001, 0238–0567
Pinkerton, Allan
biographical information 1: 0001;
3: 0442
death, 1930 2: 0189
Lincoln, Abraham, assassination plot
1: 0291; 3: 0069–0337, 0442, 0709
Pinkerton, David W.
general 9: 0618
investigation 10: 0070, 0567
Pinkerton, Matt
9: 0618; 10: 0070
Pinkerton, Robert A.
estate 8: 0873
Pinkerton, William A.
estate 9: 0001; 10: 0820
Pinkerton’s Cowboy Detective (book)
18: 0001
Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency v.
Charles A. Siringo and W. B. Conkey
Company
17: 0660
Pinkerton’s Protective Patrol
agency branch 13: 0780–0937
Pinkerton’s Union Detective Agency
9: 0878
Owen, A. E.
7: 0486
Owens, Arthur B.
19: 0388
Ozark Detective Agency
18: 0937
Packard, Frank M.
19: 0078; 21: 0001
Partners and partnerships
10: 0775–0820
Patents
general 9: 0112
lawyers 11: 0167
Paternity
claims 19: 0127
Patterson’s Detective Agency
18: 0937
Payton, Weffiz M.
7: 0489
Peltier, George
attempted homicide 18: 0001
Pender, John J.
7: 0496
Pennsylvania
Homestead 1: 0672, 0861; 2: 0001
Lewisburg, Pa. National Bank 8: 0804
Philadelphia 8: 0543; 11: 0053; 18: 1003
Pensions
7: 0391; 9: 0353
Perjury
Murphy, H. P. 19: 0388
Perry, Oliver Curtis
1: 0120
Personal debt
Bush, Nelson W. 4: 0909
Fox, Daniel William 5: 0931
Personnel management and training
11: 0096–0913; 12: 0001–0991;
13: 0001–0113, 0146–0962;
14: 0001–0946; 15: 0001
Petroleum and petroleum industry
11: 0422
Phelan, William A.
killing of 6: 0304
46
stolen 14: 0355–0453
trespass 14: 0529
Prostate disease
Bangs, George D. 4: 0740–0758
Prostitution
2: 0882
Public relations
Pinkerton Agency 1: 0001–0861;
2: 0001; 15: 0137–0177
Public utilities
11: 0260
Pullman, Margaret Allen
sale of interests 9: 0036
Rahway, New Jersey
Phoebe Stader homicide 18: 1022
Railroads
employees 13: 0052–0082
equipment theft 19: 0388
freight handlers strike 7: 0510
general 2: 0882; 16: 0691
inspections 13: 0034–0082; 18: 0001
Kansas City, Mexico, & Orient Railway
Company 8: 0873
Philadelphia, Wilmington, & Baltimore
Railroad 3: 0145–0221, 0442
robberies 1: 0120; 2: 0117; 8: 0850–
0866; 18: 0001
Union Pacific Railroad 8: 0695
Wabash Railroad Company 18: 1117
Ranchers
Ute Indians homicide 18: 0001
Rawley, Frederick
19: 0527
Reconstruction Finance Corp.
9: 0580
Record keeping
2: 0001; 11: 0090, 0913; 12: 0878;
20: 0245–0664
Reed, Edward S.
19: 0312
Religions
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day
Saints 18: 0001, 0693
Francis P. Dimaio observances 5: 0252
Jews 18: 1003
Pinkerton’s United States Detective
Agency
correspondence school 9: 0618–0878;
10: 0001, 0238–0567
mail fraud 9: 0618–0878; 10: 0070, 0567
The Pinkerton Story (book)
1: 0087–0773; 2: 0001
Poisons
food 13: 0266
general 1: 0475; 18: 1003
Police
New York City 3: 0069, 0221
Policies
see Personnel management and training
Polygraphs
15: 0001
Pope Pius XI
18: 0872
Population
divorce 21: 0001, 0823
homosexuality 6: 0856
marriage 3: 0709
minority groups 2: 0001; 18: 0001, 0693,
1003
missing persons 13: 0962
women 2: 0882; 3: 0709
see also Families
Postal service
mail fraud 9: 0618–0878; 10: 0070, 0567
Pottstown Detective Agency
18: 0937
Powers of attorney
9: 0060
Press
John C. Fraser interviews 6: 0083
see also Newspapers
Price, C. W.
attempted homicide 18: 0001
Priester, Leonard, Jr.
19: 0388
Prisoners
escaped 17: 0626
general 18: 0001
Property
land fraud scandal 20: 0429–0664
repossession 13: 0279
47
Treadwell Gold Mill 18: 0001
of Young, James H. 8: 0475
Robertson, David
7: 0503
Robinson, Sarah Webster
medical expenses 4: 0001
Rogers, Joe
2: 0882
Rogers, John W.
7: 0506
Roosevelt, Theodore
3: 0580
Rosene, Harry
19: 0546
Rosetter, Asher
Pinkerton Agency career and
biographical information 7: 0510
Runaway and missing persons
13: 0962
Russell, Walter H.
19: 0550
S. 1543
9: 0580
Sabotage
factory 11: 0340
general 13: 0686; 19: 0282
Sabro, John D.
21: 0823
Safes and vaults
general 13: 0532; 14: 0355
photographs 14: 0675
robberies 8: 0850
Salaries
see Wages and salaries
Salem, Ohio
2: 0882
Sales workers
traveling 14: 0001
Salmon, George H.
7: 0594
Saville, John R.
Pinkerton Agency career 7: 0598
Schoenbein, Maximillian
robberies by 8: 0660
Schooley, R. W.
7: 0611
Reno brothers gang
1: 0120; 8: 0850
Restaurants and restaurant industry
13: 0406
Retail trade
beauty shops 13: 0406
department stores 11: 0658; 13: 0146
gasoline stations 11: 0422
Retirement
Diehl, Samuel B. 5: 0196
Dimaio, Francis P. 5: 0342
Gaylor, Edward S. 6: 0146
McMahon, Philip B. 6: 0856
Rewards
15: 0194–0738; 16: 0001–0884, 0975;
17: 0001–0626
Riata and Spurs (book)
general 18: 0539
publication hold 17: 0660
Right of privacy
12: 0878
see also Electronic surveillance
Riots and disorders
Archuleta County, N.M., uprising
18: 0001, 0693
Haymarket riot, 1884 (Chicago, Ill.)
18: 0001, 0693
Robbery and theft
armed 16: 0884
automobiles 15: 0512
banks 1: 0773; 2: 0117; 8: 0513–0565,
0660, 0722–0804, 0866
bonds 16: 0884; 17: 0256
cattle 18: 0001
general 14: 0355, 0853; 15: 0411
industrial plants and equipment 11: 0340
inspections 13: 0532
jewelry 1: 0773; 2: 0882; 14: 0001;
15: 0207–0303, 0512–0612, 0738;
16: 0001–0453, 0652–0884, 0975;
17: 0001–0144, 0256–0319, 0472–
0626; 18: 1003
of McMahon, Philip B. 6: 0856
Merchants’ Union Express Co. 8: 0597
railroads 1: 0120; 2: 0117; 8: 0695,
0866; 18: 0001; 19: 0388
48
Shoemack, William H.
7: 0648, 0924
Shoplifters
9: 0453; 12: 0178, 0518; 13: 0146
Sierra Madre Development Company
8: 0873
Signage
14: 0001
Simms, Joseph
investigation for robbery 2: 0882
Simms, Orin
robberies by 8: 0660
Siringo, Charles A.
lawsuit 17: 0660; 18: 0001–0693
Pinkerton’s Cowboy Detective 18: 0001
Riata and Spurs 18: 0539
Two Evil Isms: Pinkertonism and
Anarchism 18: 0693
union infiltration 18: 0001, 0693
Sloan, J. M.
19: 0388
Small business
theft inspections 13: 0532
Smallpox
18: 0001
Smith, Clarence L.
19: 0472
Smoot, Reed
investigation of 18: 0001, 0693
Social security
6: 0856
Spence, Lowell
7: 0651
Spinney, Colorado
2: 0882
Sports and athletics
baseball 11: 0422
boxing 21: 0679
football 11: 0422
golf 11: 0422
Spy of the Rebellion (pamphlet)
3: 0781; 4: 0165; 8: 0082
St. Louis, Missouri
16: 0453–0525
St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Co.
18: 0937
Schumacher, Joseph H.
Pinkerton Agency career 7: 0614
Scott, Robert C.
robberies by 8: 0529
Searches and seizures
14: 0774
Sease, David N.
7: 0645
Secret Service
3: 0539–0691
Securities
dividends 2: 0241–0476; 10: 0894
general 9: 0001, 0048, 0112; 17: 0256;
21: 0270–0379
robberies 16: 0884
Security guards
services 11: 0422–0913; 12: 0178–0518,
0674, 0878; 13: 0686; 14: 0001,
0223, 0946
Security services
armored truck 11: 0422
bank protection 2: 0117
Lincoln, Abraham 1: 0291; 3: 0069–
0337, 0442
personal 1: 0291; 2: 0001; 3: 0069–
0337, 0442; 11: 0422
Pinkerton’s Protective Patrol 13: 0780–
0851
public 2: 0858
racetracks 9: 0437
see also Security guards
Sellman, John
18: 0539
Sentences, criminal procedure
19: 0109–0127
see also Capital punishment
Sexual assault
Frank J. Sullivan prosecution 10: 0070
Shadowing
12: 0001; 14: 0188
Sharp, Rose A.
investigation of 2: 0882
Ships and shipbuilding
naval vessels 13: 0686; 14: 0223
steamboats 11: 0754
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Thaw, Harry K.
escape from Mattewan State Hospital for
the Criminally Insane 21: 0679
Theater
inspections 13: 0134
Thiel, George H.
7: 0921
Thiel’s Detective Service
18: 0937
Third National Bank of Baltimore (Md.)
robbery 8: 0565
Thompson, Benjamin
18: 0539
Thornhill, David C.
eye injury and death 7: 0929
Pinkerton Agency career 4: 0758;
7: 0929
Ticket scalpers
7: 0354
Tipton, Wyoming
Union Pacific Railroad robbery 8: 0695
Tort law
14: 0529
Trade associations
11: 0754
Trade secrets
see Business intelligence
Trademarks
10: 0863; 14: 0529
see also Logos
Training
see Personnel management and training
Transportation
accidents 6: 0083; 7: 0427
elevators 13: 0406
freight 7: 0510; 11: 0754
see also Motor transportation
see also Railroads
see also Ships and shipbuilding
Transportation accidents and safety
auto accidents 6: 0083
auto deaths 7: 0427
Treadwell Gold Mill (Juneau, Alaska)
robbery 18: 0001
Trespass
14: 0529
Stader, Phoebe
homicide of 18: 1022
Stancliff, G. L.
Pinkerton Agency career, health, and J.
O. Camden conflict 7: 0656
Standard Secret Service Bureau
18: 0937
Steamboats
11: 0754
Stedman Detective Service
18: 0937
Steunenberg, Frank
assassination of 1: 0773
Stiles, Standish L.
Pinkerton Agency career and death
7: 0864
Stocks
see Securities
Strikes and lockouts
Coeur d’Alene miner’s strike, 1892
18: 0001, 0693
freight handlers 7: 0510
Homestead, Pa. gun battle 1: 0672,
0861; 2: 0001
Stroke
Gaylor, Edward S. 6: 0146
Subversive activities
11: 0125, 0340–0422; 13: 0686;
14: 0223, 0756; 21: 0679, 0823
Sullivan, Frank J.
sexual assault prosecution 10: 0070
Surety bonds
13: 0501
Surveillance
general 14: 0715, 0946
Greenhow, Rose O’Neal 3: 0423
shadowing 12: 0001; 14: 0188
see also Electronic surveillance
Swiggett, Howard
The Pinkerton Story 1: 0087–0773
Telegraph
11: 0754
Telephone and telephone industry
11: 0754
Texas
18: 0539
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Violence
assault 2: 0882; 5: 0931; 10: 0070;
14: 0355
kidnapping 8: 0529; 18: 0001
sexual assault 10: 0070
see also Homicide
Virginia
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Museum
18: 0751
W. B. Conkey Company
lawsuit 17: 0660
Wabash Railroad Company
18: 1117
Wages and salaries
12: 0991
Wagner, William F.
8: 0043
Walpole, N.H. Savings Bank
robbery 8: 0660
War
Indian wars 18: 0539
World War I 21: 0001, 0679, 0823
World War II 13: 0686; 14: 0223
see also Civil War
War Assets Corp.
9: 0580
Warne, Kate
3: 0709
Warner, Francis
8: 0045
Watkins, Isabel P.
sale of interests 9: 0036
Watkins, Joseph O.
Pinkerton Agency career 8: 0053
Weber, Payton M.
8: 0079
Webster, Daniel
death 4: 0001
Webster, Timothy
biographical information 3: 0781;
4: 0001–0165
execution 4: 0217
family 3: 0781; 4: 0001
general 3: 0755; 8: 0082
Trials
general 20: 0429–0664
Webster, Timothy 4: 0165
Trucks and trucking
security 11: 0422
Tuberculosis
Bush, Nelson W. 4: 0909
McMahon, Philip B. 6: 0510, 0685
Turrell, Orban C.
Pinkerton Agency career 8: 0001
Two Evil Isms: Pinkertonism and
Anarchism (book)
18: 0693
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Museum
(Va.)
18: 0751
U.S. statutes
anti-communist legislation 18: 0872
S. 1543 9: 0580
Undercover operations
aliases and disguises 3: 0709
general 14: 0715; 18: 0001; 21: 0001
Siringo, Charles 18: 0693
union infiltration 18: 0001
Wild Bunch gang infiltration 18: 0001,
0693
Uniforms
general 13: 0780–0851; 20: 0664
identification badges 11: 0422
Union Detective Agency
9: 0618
Union Pacific Railroad
robbery, 1900 8: 0695
United Kingdom
Bank of England 8: 0611
London 1: 0475
Utah
Pinkerton Agency business cessation
2: 0241
Ute Indians
homicide of 18: 0001
Vallins, Thomas
8: 0034
Vallins, William A.
8: 0037
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Williams, John A.
Pinkerton Agency career 8: 0196
Wills and probate
Pinkerton, Robert A. 8: 0873
Pinkerton, William A. 9: 0001; 10: 0820
Wilson, Charles L.
8: 0209
Wilson, Elmer L.
19: 0637
Wind, Frank T.
Pinkerton Agency career, death and
family 8: 0213
Wiretapping
see Electronic surveillance
Witnesses
general 14: 0715, 0853, 0946
tampering 20: 0245
Women
operatives 2: 0882; 3: 0709
Women’s Relief Corps Home
3: 0781
Worker’s compensation
13: 0406
World War I
21: 0001, 0679, 0823
World War II
industrial plants 13: 0686; 14: 0223
Worth, Adam
criminal career 1: 0475
Wyoming
Tipton 8: 0695
Young, James H.
robbery of 8: 0475
Younger brothers
capture 8: 0722
Youth employment
office boys 6: 0510
Webster, William E.
Pinkerton Agency career, family, and
resignation 8: 0101
Weiss, Edward J.
Pinkerton Agency career 8: 0159
Wentz, Edward
kidnapping and homicide of 18: 0001
Western Federation of Miners
general 1: 0773; 18: 0001
investigation of 7: 0001
Pinkerton Agency information buying
4: 0959
White Caps
see Las Gorras Blancas
White, George M.
robberies by 8: 0660
Whitney & Lee Law, Collection, and
Detective Agency
18: 0937
Wild Bill
see Hickok, James “Wild Bill” Butler
Wild Bunch gang
general 2: 0117; 8: 0866
infiltration 18: 0001, 0693
William J. Burns International Detective
Agency
employees 19: 0001–0078, 0127–0637,
0709–0941; 20: 0664–0823;
21: 0001, 0679–0823
general 10: 0070–0238
improper conduct 18: 1056–1117;
19: 0001–0941; 20: 0001–0823;
21: 0001–0823
license revocation 19: 0652–0941;
20: 0001–0823; 21: 000–0823
Pinkerton Agency interaction 21: 0379
Pinkerton Agency investigation 21: 0823
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I
n 1908 famed detective James McParland was charged with
investigating one of the agency’s own, superintendent H. Frank Cary,
for embezzlement and suspected selling of Pinkerton information to
the Western Federation of Miners. An excerpt from his report reads like a
hardboiled detective novel:
[H. Frank Cary] said “Well, so far as regards that $594.00 deposited in
March, 1907, that did not come from the funds of the Western Federation,
but it came about in way which I could never discuss while I am in the
Agency.” I said: “Well, you are no longer in the Agency; you are
discharged and I wish you right now to deliver us to me your keys.” He
said: “What! Am I discharged?” I replied: “Yes, what could you expect.”
He said “Won’t you allow me to resign?,” to which I replied: “No, I do not
allow a man to resign who has admitted himself to be a thief and a forger
and when conclusive evidence proves him to be a traitor. You are not fit
for the company of a dog. A man of your character should be killed and
your carcass thrown to the dogs and if I killed you, Mr. Cary, in this room
this minute I would not consider I would have to ask the forgiveness of
God Almighty for doing so.” He immediately handed over the keys
(Reel 4, Frames 0979–0980).
During its colorful 150-year history, Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency, the
oldest company of private investigators in the United States, pursued some of the nation’s
most notorious criminals including Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, Jesse James, Alfred
Brady, John Dillinger, and countless others. Allan Pinkerton founded the company in the
1850s. One of his first contracts was to provide protective services for the Illinois Central
Railroad, whose legal counsel was Abraham Lincoln. After Lincoln became president in
1861, Pinkerton formed a secret service to protect the president and to provide
intelligence for the Union Army. After the Civil War, Pinkerton’s sons, Robert and
William, expanded the company. By the early twentieth century, the Pinkertons had
several thousand employees and as many clients and operated offices throughout the
United States.
Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency, Part A: Administrative File, 1857–1999
contains materials on a wealth of topics including outlaws of the Wild West, labor
unions, organized and white collar crime, training procedures, employee management,
and rival businesses, plus decades of entertaining wanted posters. The collection is a rich
resource for researchers studying the history of law enforcement, labor history, business
practices of the first company of private investigators, and some of the nation’s most
famous criminal cases.
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