National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-07-16
der these various confusing accounts, I'M
ierstand French politics they have a
bettor head than have.
PINKERroN,s METHODS.
The Accusing Blood That Led a MUIR
dcrcr 20 Commit Suicide.

ucEcr 10 commit Sutctues
Philadelphia Press
II was Just thinking" said Capt. r. J.
Linden, superintendent of Pinkerton's
detective agency, on his return from
Chicago where he had been attending
the funeral of Allan Pinkerton, "ofthe
wonderful will power, and untiring per-
severance of tho man whose body was
laid to rest last Thursday. Very fow
persons, unless they wero intimately
associated with him, would believe that
any person could possess such n patient
persistence, which surmounted obstacles
that TO ordinary meu would appear like
impossible mountains. Mai. Pinkerton
was man with big heart. l don't
think he knew how to do mean thing.
lilo was one of those honorable fair
minded men, who, while giving evory-
body their due, exacted the same for
himself In matters of business he in.
sisted on getting every penny that be-
longed to him, and once ho made a
promise it was lived up to IL 1t cost him
every penny no owned in the world. His
likes and dislikos were intense. II he
became your friend, no amount Of
calumny on tho part of your onomy could
change his opinion; but IL ho disliked
you, neither arguments nor ontreaties
could shake him AN iota.
Maj. Piukerton's perseverance and
ingenuity were tho secrets of his success
in all his undertakings. If he could not
accomplish his purpose by one plan no
Immediately resorted to another. His
mind was wonderfully fertile in expe-
dents, and 1t was rare thing for him to
fail when he had once set his mind upon
f.r Ii.
ready tact and capacity for planning Ia
tho case of tho colorod murderer johnson,
of South Carolina, who killed mn enemy
under tho most brutal circumstances.
Mai. Pinkerton was pretty positive as to
the mans guilt, but it was impossible to
obtain complete chain of evidence.
With the natural secretiveness of his
raco Johnson refused to fall into any of
the man traps laid for him and mako
confession, which was Pinkcrton's object
After weeks OF patient but abortivo
work novel plan was hit upon. Tho
murderer was surprised one, morning
whom he won't to take pillow into field
to find it spattered with blood. In tho
open field where ho was to work the
murderer found little pools of blood along
the course he was to pillow. Whom he went
back to the stable no was startled by
hand on tho stable door. Every hoe or
rake or other farm implement that the
man picked up had blood on 1t. When
nightfall came tho murderer was SO
parayzed with fear that his teeth were
chattering and he was afraid to go to bed
He believed that the spirit Of his victim
was haunting him. Tho detective and
his assistant noted these symptoms, and
were confident that tho right plan had
been struck Mt last. 1t had been, after a
fashion, and there was 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 guilty conscience.
| need not explain that tho blood marks
which frightened tho murderer's guilty
soul were tho work of tho detectives and
not Of spirits.
1t was in that kind Of detective work
that Maj. Pinkerton cNcelled. He could
change his tactics 50 mat the man or men
he was seeking wOul hO led into a trap
when they really tn. Mt they were get
ting out OF one. o arc scores auI
scores OF such inst 3, but they have
all been published time to time as
they occurred. auu ,,it suppose won Id
interest you. II 70 of Maj. Pinkcr-
toms rules to com nothing from the
public OF public in, vt. after the work
was done, and it w. another inilexible
rule to tell the puhl nothing before the
job was finished or ,Hiio 1t was in pro-
gress. From this he never departed, and
his sons, William and Robert, who are
their fathers successors, will adhere To it
rs rigidly as the founder Of the agency
did" .'