Correspondence of William A. Pinkerton, 1894-1911.

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Correspondence of William A. Pinkerton, 1894-1911.

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In an letter to S.S. McClure, 1895 March 25, Pinkerton responds to a letter concerning an article on the Mollie Maguires, explaining the circumstances of the first murder trial and the use of James McParland as a witness, and enclosing the Argument of Franklin B. Gowen (not present). In a letter to McClure, 1895 March 25, Pinkerton responds to a letter concerning Michael Rogers, one of the Reno gang of Indiana train robbers. He elaborates on Rogers' criminal careet and notes that he has dictated an article on the gang to a Mr. Moffett. A magazine photograph of Pinketon is pasted to the letter. In a letter to Wiliam G. Chapman, 1911 May 21, Pinkerton expresses his displeasure with an article by George Barton on the solving of the Potter jewel theft by Pinkerton, stating he does not know Barton, did not give him the facts and had no personal connection with the case which was handled by his brother Robert A. Pinkerton and George S. Doughterty, now of the New York Police. In a letter to Pinkerton, 1911 May 22, the manager of the Chicago News offers his regrets for inaccuracies in the above article and promises to take the matter up with Barton and suppress further publication. In a letter to Pinkerton, 1912 August 12, the Manager of the Internatinal Prress Bureau requests stories for syndication.

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McClure, S. S. (Samuel Sidney), 1857-1949

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Journalist, writer of books for boys. From the description of S.S. McClure check to James Barnes, 1898 June 29. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 53795304 American publisher. From the description of Letter to Edward Sylvester Ellis, 1892 October 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 51846140 ...

Pinkerton, William A. (William Allan), 1846-1923

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Principal in Pinkerton's National Detective Agency. From the description of Correspondence of William A. Pinkerton, 1894-1911. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 65542819 ...

Pinkerton, Robert A. (Robert Allan), 1848-1907

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Principal in the Pinkerton Detective Agency. From the description of Letters to S.S. McClure, 1894, n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 67292852 ...

McParland, James P.

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James McParland was manager of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency's Denver, CO office. After the assassination of former Idaho governor Frank Steunenberg at Caldwell in December 1905, Governor Gooding called on the Pinkertons to direct the State of Idaho's investigation of the bombing. McParland went to Idaho in 1906 and interrogated Harry Orchard, who had been arrested soon after the murder. McParland obtained a confession that implicated most of the leadership of the Western Federation of...

Dougherty, George S.

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Gowen, Franklin B. (Franklin Benjamin), 1836-1889

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Franklin B. Gowen, a lawyer, was president of the Pennsylvania and Reading Railroad Company, 1869-1883. From the description of To the miners and laborers of the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Company, 1877 March 17. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 35766271 ...

Barton, George, 1866-1940

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Molly Maguires (Organization)

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Chapman, William Gerard, 1877-1945

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William Gerard Chapman (1877-1945), a native of New York, was an American author of Green-Timber Trails and journalist and the owner of the International Press Bureau, a literary agency in Chicago. ...