• Allan Pinkerton and Chicago attorney Edward Rucker as the North-Western Police Agency, which later became Pinkerton & Co. and finally the Pinkerton National...
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    Allan Pinkerton (August 21, 1819 – July 1, 1884) was a Scottish-American cooper, abolitionist, detective, and spy, best known for creating the Pinkerton National...
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    United States, Allan Pinkerton established the Pinkerton National Detective Agency – a private detective agency – in 1850. Pinkerton became famous when...
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    Kate Warne (category Pinkerton (detective agency))
    officer best known as the first female detective in the United States, for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. She also had a role in uncovering the...
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  • The Thiel Detective Service Company was a private detective agency formed in 1873 by George H. Thiel, a former Civil War spy and Pinkerton employee. The...
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  • what would become the Pinkerton National Detective Agency Bill Pinkerton (born 1932), Scottish football goalkeeper Brian Pinkerton (fl. 2004–present), American...
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  • The Pinkertons is a Canadian Western police procedural television series which features crime cases of the Pinkerton detective agency. The show is officially...
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    Charlie Siringo (category Pinkerton (detective agency))
    18, 1928) was an American lawman, detective, bounty hunter, and agent for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency during the late 19th and early 20th...
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    current organization. That hereafter no employee of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, or similar agency, shall be employed in any government service or by any...
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  • Baltimore Plot (category Pinkerton (detective agency))
    whistle-stop tour en route to his inauguration. Allan Pinkerton, founder of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, played a key role in managing Lincoln's security...
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  • Reno Gang (category Pinkerton (detective agency))
    safe were insured by the Adams Express Company, which hired the Pinkerton Detective Agency to track down and capture the gang. On November 17, 1867, the...
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    Etta Place and Butch Cassidy to escape the dogged pursuit of the Pinkerton Detective Agency. The trio fled first to Argentina and then to Bolivia, where most...
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    A detective is an investigator, usually a member of a law enforcement agency. They often collect information to solve crimes by talking to witnesses and...
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  • The Baldwin–Felts Detective Agency was a private detective agency in the United States from the early 1890s to 1937. The agency's members played a key...
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    known about her; both her origin and her fate remain unknown. The Pinkerton Detective Agency described her, in 1906, as having, "classic good looks, 27 or...
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    the pressures of being pursued by law enforcement, notably the Pinkerton detective agency, forced him to flee the United States. He fled with his accomplice...
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    Adam Worth (category Pinkerton (detective agency))
    assumed names, receiving his bounty, and then deserting. When the Pinkerton Detective Agency began to track him, like many others using similar methods, he...
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    Hattie Lawton (category Pinkerton (detective agency))
    Hattie Lewis Lawton was an American detective, who worked for Allan Pinkerton, of the Pinkerton Detective Agency. Lawton may have been born around 1837...
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    Tom Horn (category Pinkerton (detective agency))
    November 20, 1903) was an American scout, cowboy, soldier, range detective, and Pinkerton agent in the 19th-century and early 20th-century American Old West...
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    James McParland (category Pinkerton (detective agency))
    McParlan; 22 March 1844 – 18 May 1919) was an American private detective and Pinkerton agent. McParland arrived in New York in 1867. He worked as a laborer...
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    Dashiell Hammett (category Pinkerton (detective agency))
    several jobs before working for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. He served as an operative for Pinkerton from 1915 to February 1922, with time...
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    Red Harvest (category American detective novels)
    experiences as an operative of the Pinkerton Detective Agency (fictionalized as the Continental Detective Agency). The plot follows the Op's investigation...
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  • Felix Leiter (category Fictional Central Intelligence Agency personnel)
    losing a leg and a hand to a shark attack, Leiter joined the Pinkerton Detective Agency. The name "Felix" comes from the middle name of Fleming's friend...
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    Baldwin–Felts Detective Agency Bisbee Deportation Damnation (TV series) Industrial Workers of the World Labor spies Pinkerton National Detective Agency "A History...
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    Pryce Lewis (category Pinkerton (detective agency))
    (February 13, 1831 – December 6, 1911) was an operative of the Pinkerton Detective Agency and Union spy during the American Civil War. His activities in...
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    criminal prosecution. Information passed from the Pinkerton detective, intended only for the detective agency and their client—the most powerful industrialist...
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    by the Pinkerton Detective Agency to ferry its agents to the steel mill) and one of the men wounded by the strikers, said: "The armed Pinkerton men commenced...
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    George S. Dougherty (category Pinkerton (detective agency))
    private detective and writer. He was considered one of the leading detectives in the United States, first for the Pinkerton Detective Agency and then...
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  • wealthy oil magnate Leviticus Cornwall (John Rue), who recruits the Pinkerton Detective Agency, led by Andrew Milton (John Hickok) and his subordinate Edgar...
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  • Labor spying in the United States (category Labor detectives)
    for the detective profession, the Pinkerton and Thiel detective agencies referred to their field agents as operatives or testers. The Pinkerton logo inspired...
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