, 1884-08-17
P~INKERToN,S TRAP.
TIE Accusing Blood That LED q Muir
derer to Commit Suicide.
Some OF tho Leading characteristIe-
OF Allan Pfnkerton, the Hs-
nowned Detecfiyc-HIs Sc
cret of Success.

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II was just thinking - said Capt X j..
Linden, experimentation Of Pinkertonis De-
~itectivc agency. on his return from Chicago.
where he had boon attending the funeral Of
Allan rinkerton, ~of the wonderful win
power and untiring perseverance, OF the man
whose body has been laid 10 rcSt.
Very few persons, unless they were intimately
associated with him, would believe that any
person could posses such aparent persist
ence, which surnountcd obstacles that to or
I1dlnary men would appear like impossible
mountain Ma, Pinlserton was q man with
a big heart don't think he knew how to
do n mean thing. He was one Of those hon
urahle, fair-Ininded men, who, while giving
everybody their due, exacted the same for
himself. In matters OF business he insisted
on getting every penny that belonged TO
him, aud once he mado a promise IL was
lived up TO II IL cost him every penny he
owned in the world His likes and dislikes
were intense. II he became your friend no
amount OF calumny on the part Of your en-
cfny .cnuld change his opinion; but II he dis
liiad you neither arguments nor entrentiez
could shake him an iota.
Mai Pibkertonls perseverance, and inge-
nuity wen- the secrets OF his success in all
his undertaking. II he could not accom-
plish his purpose by one plan he immediately
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fnily fertile in expedients, and Il was n rars
thing for him TO fail when he had once set
iii Hnnd upon success. , You can form some
tdea of his ready tact and capacity for plan
ming in the case OF the colored murderer
johnson. OF South Carolina, who killed an
enemy under the most brutal circumstances.
Maj Finkerton was pretty positive as to
the MINIS gnilt, but It wns impossible to OBJ
tain a complete chain OF evidence. With the
natuni secrrtiveness OF his race johnson re-
fused " nl1 Into amy OF the man-trsps laid
Tor him snd make a confession, which was
Pinksrtons object rH-1l ioi-cloI
4After weeks of patient but abortive work,
a novel plan was hit upon. The murderer
WIS surprised one morning when hs went to
take a plof into a Geld TO end ii spattered
with blood. In the open field wheru he was
10 work The murderer found little pool Of
blood along the course he was 70 pillow. When
he went back 70 the stable he was startled
by seeing the bloody imprint OF a human
hand on the stable door. Every hoe, OF rake,
or other farm Implement that the man picked
mp had blood on IT, When. nightfAl came
the murderer was 50 paraIyzed with fear that
hia teeth were chattering and he was afraid
to 60 to bed Ho believed that the spirit Of
his victim was haunting him. The detective
md his assistant noted these symptoms, and
were confident that the right plan had bean
struck at last It had been after a fashion,
and there wns a horrible proof given the next
day. johnson was found In the barn with
his throat cut from ear to ear. He
had killed himself rather than endure
the fortunes of a guilty conscience. l need
not explain that the blood marks which
frightened; the murderer's guilty soul were
the WORK OF the detectives, and not OF spirits
1T was III that kind Of detective work that
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