Founder of the first detective agency in the US

Usage examples of pinkerton.

All that was to come later, of course, when the business with the Mollies exploded under Pinkerton and Gowen and all the rest of us.

Haymarket, class conflict and violence continued, with strikes, lockouts, blacklisting, the use of Pinkerton detectives and police to break strikes with force, and courts to break them by law.

Pinkerton detective who grew tired of the profession in the mid-twenties and turned to fictionalising his experiences for the rapidly growing number of crime and mystery pulp magazines.

Another Pinkerton was carrying an inkpad, some paper, and a copy of her fingerprints from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Pinkerton guards boarded barges 5 miles down the river from Homestead and moved toward the plant, where ten thousand strikers and sympathizers waited.

That choice seemed apt: Francis Preston Blair, the keeper of the secrets of the wild and woolly Andrew Jackson private life, would know how to use the sort of embarrassing information a Pinkerton would unearth.

A Pinkerton detective, he had infiltrated into the Mollie Maguires, a secret terrorist organization of Irish coalminers in Pennsylvania.

All the information from balloons, deserters, prisoners, and contrabands agrees" Pinkerton nodded vigorously"that the mass of the rebel troops are still in the immediate vicinity of Richmond, ready to defend it.

Among the trudgers, as bitter and dejected as anyone, seemingly, were spies and agents provocateurs secretly employed and paid very well by the Pinkerton Detective Agency.

I listened to the stories the old bums would tell--cops and robbers, railroads and Pinkerton men, darkness.

His one and only ambition was to become a Pinkerton man, and he fully believed that once armed with the diploma of the correspondence school to which he paid half his weekly salary, it would be simply a matter of presenting it to the head of the detective agency to insure him an open-armed reception and an immediate appointment--didn't the prospectus of the school say so almost in so many words?

And there is a telephone call for you from the Pinkerton Detective Agency.

Frank and Joe related to their father how they had first become involved in the affair, beginning with the arrival of Henry Pinkerton and the discovery of the footprints under the window.

On Oliphant's request, Wakefield regularly ordered the files spun on groups as diverse as the Carbonari, the Knights of the White Camellia, the Fenian Society, the Texas Rangers, the Greek Hetairai, the Pinkerton Detective Agency, and the Confederate Bureau of Scientific Research, all of whom were known to be operative in Britain.

There was a Pinkerton man sitting at a card table near the staircase on the mezzanine floor.