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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 ...
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In August 1861, Pinkerton himself captured notorious Confederate spy Rose O'Neal Greenhow, the politically-connected socialite in Washington, D.C., credited ...
Apr 2, 2024 · While cutting wood on a deserted island one day, he discovered and later captured a gang of counterfeiters. Following this and other similar ...
By accident he discovered the lair of a gang of counterfeiters and had them arrested. The resulting celebrity led to his appointment as a deputy sheriff and ...
Oct 23, 2015 · The Scotsman conducted informal surveillance on the gang and was hailed as a local hero after he helped police make arrests. “The affair was in ...
While in Dundee, Pinkerton helped catch a gang of counterfeiters whose hideout he had stumbled upon. As a result he was appointed deputy sheriff of Kane ...
Pinkerton is a private security guard and detective agency established around 1850 in the United States by Scottish-born American cooper Allan Pinkerton and ...
Private detective​​ Allan Pinkerton was a Chartist, had to go into hiding to avoid arrest and left Scotland for America in 1842. He was the first police ...
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Oct 4, 2023 · This blog is a part of our Scouts and Spies series. Our founder, Allan Pinkerton, and his team of Secret Service Scouts and Spies played a ...
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Thrusting their shotguns before them, Sheriff Yates and the deputized Pinkerton appeared from their concealment to arrest the stunned brigade.