Lincoln later hired Pinkerton agents to conduct espionage against the Confederacy and act as his personal security during the Civil War. Pinkerton became famous when he claimed to have foiled a plot to assassinate president-elect Abraham Lincoln in 1861. Some years later, gunfighter-turned-reporter Bat Masterson meets up with George, who is now the NYPD Deputy Commissioner, to find out how the Missouri Kid was finally brought to justice. Pinkerton, founded as the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, is a private security guard and detective agency established in the United States by Scotsman Allan Pinkerton in the 1850s and currently a subsidiary of Securitas AB. When they attempt to arrest the Missouri Kid for the robbery, Charles is killed in a gunbattle, and George is left to finish the job and avenge his partner's death. As George meticulously combs the crime scene for clues, Charles rushes to hunt down the unknown suspect. Together, they are a turn-of-the-century odd couple. To protect the non-union workers he planned to hire, Frick turned to the enforcers he had employed previously: the Pinkerton Detective Agencys private. On one hand is the young George Dougherty, a bookish office detective who has been studying the latest scientific investigative techniques, and on the other is veteran field detective Charles Schumacher, a hard-charging man of action who's dodged a few bullets in his day. In a flash of insight, agency director William Pinkerton pairs two very different detectives to handle the investigation. Recognized by many historians as America’s first female detective, Kate Warne persuaded. Allan Pinkerton, founder of the organization and pioneer in the field, had dared to hire women as agents. One day in 1856, a young woman walked into the Pinkerton agency to apply for a job as an investigator. The first detective agency in the United States, it solved a series of train robberies. Allan ran afoul of local authorities over the membership in a chartist movement. Allan Pinkerton, a deputy-sheriff in Chicago, formed the Pinkerton Detective Agency in 1852. To support his family Allan worked as a cooper or barrel maker in his native land. He was born into poverty to a police man who could no longer work due to injuries he had sustained from the job.
During a shootout, the Missouri Kid kills seasoned detective Charles Schumacher, leaving young George Dougherty to finish the job and avenge his colleague's death.Īfter a bank is robbed in Union, Missouri, the Pinkerton Detective Agency arrives on scene to track down the thieves. She was a detective working for the nation’s first security servicethe Pinkerton National Detective Agency. Allan Pinkerton was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on August 25, 1819. Two Pinkerton detectives join forces to track a notorious bank robber.
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