The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-07-04
ALLAN PINKERTON.
Death of the Celebrated Detective, After
Long and Painful Illness.

Death of the Celebrated Detective, After
a Long and Painful Illness.
CHICAGO, July ALLAN Pinkerton. the
head and founder Of the great Pinkerton
National Detective Agency, died at his
home, 554 West Adams street, at 3:05
o'clock yesterday afternoon. His death
had been momentarily expected for some
hours. His friends had given up all hope of
his recovery some days before his death.
He was sixty five years old.
Allan Pinkerton was born in Glasgow in
1919, the son Of small tradesman. He
married young and Immediately after left
for the Western hemisphere, landing in
Canada. The young couples early strug-
giles were a series of hardships, and after
many vicissitudes Pinkerton came to this
city, where he engaged in the cooper trade.
1t was while he was thus engaged that
MIR. Pinkerton showed his detective quail
lies ana made name in detective circles
Very little money was in circulation, and
the Milwaukee Fire and Marine INSURANCE
Company issued checks, which passed as
an equivalent They were cheap affairs
and easily counterfeited. The result was
that numerous fraudulent checks were soon
in circulation. Some of these forged checks
came into his hands, and he resolved to
bring the rascals to justice, which he final
ly did.
Mr. Pinkerton was appointed special
agent OF the Treasury Department under
Secretary Guthrie in 1848, and was later
made special mail agent Here his detective
experience came in good play and won him
laurels. In 1854 his services were in such
great demand throughout the country that
he came to Chicago and established the
Pinkerton Detective Agency, which, in
later years, became national in
its work. He established branches at
New York and Philadelphia with great
success, and the men under his instructions
worked wonders in unearthing criminals
and criminal acts. His early detective work
was marked by his conviction of Augusta
Stuart Byron, the illegitimate son of Mary
Sturt and Lord Byron, and nephew of Adj
miral Napier of the English Navy, for train
Wrecking and plundering the United States
mails.
One of the most notable of Mr.. Pinker-
LUu , GdIly GASES Was TIC ctlE6St Ol NdLunlk
M roney, agent of the Adams Express Com
pant at Montgomery, Ala, who stole $40
900 from the company and ran away. After
some months of labor Maroney was found
and nearly all the money recovered from
its hiding place in New Jersey farm house.
A little time afterward he Tan down Andy
and William Roberts and others, recover.
ing $50, 900 which they had stolen from
an express car on the New Haven Rail.
Road. While looking for incendiaries
among the Philadelphia, Wilmington &
Baltimore Railroad in 1861 he discovered d
plot to assassinate President lincoln at B +
timore when he should pass through that
city on his way to Washington to be inau-
gurated Mr.. Pinkerton carried the Presi-
dent through Baltimore in disguise and
landed him safely in Washington. During
the war Mr.. Pinkerton was authorized by
the President to organize the Secret-Servic ice
Division of the Union Army. He served
at its head under the name of E. j. Allen
throughout the war.
After the close of the war Mr.. Pinkerton
| resumed his private detective work. He Sc
cured the arrest and conviction of six
thieves who stole $500, 600 of the Adams
Express Company from a train near Balti-
more, recovering all the money He also
brought to justice robbers of the Harden
Express Company, at Baltimore; the Car
bondale Bank, at Carbondale, Pa; the
Adams Express Company, on the New Ha-
ven Railroad; Mylart's Bank, at Scranton,
Pa, and the perpetrators of the
Hudson River Railroad robbery, in which
$500, 900 was stolen from the Merchants
Union Express Company. LIZ the same year
(1S66) Nh Pinkerton arrested the four
Reno brothers and Charles Anderson. ex-
press robbers who had terrorized the whole
country around Seymour, Ind, where they
lived. One of their acts was the robbery OF
an express car Of $97, 900 near Osgood Sta
ton, Ind. On their arrest they were placed
in Jail at New Albany. Masked men over.
powered the Sheriff in charge and hanged
the desperadoeS.
lie leaves a widow, Mrs John Pinkerton
whom he married on leaving his home III
Scotland. M