The fallout from the melee crippled the steel union, but many also branded the Pinkertons as “hired thugs,” leading several states to pass laws banning the use of outside guards in labor disputes. By the time the outnumbered Pinkertons finally surrendered, at least a dozen people were dead and several more wounded. After arriving at the plant on river barges, the agents squared off with thousands of striking workers in an all-day battle waged with guns, bricks and even dynamite. During an 1892 strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, the Carnegie Steel Company paid some 300 Pinkertons to act as security at its mill in Homestead, Pennsylvania. Industrialists used them to spy on unions or act as guards and strikebreakers, and detectives clashed with workers on several occasions. Read millions of eBooks and audiobooks on the web, iPad.
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Pinkerton guards break up a strike in Buchtel, Ohio in 1884.Īlong with their exploits in the Wild West, the Pinkertons also had a more sinister reputation as the paramilitary wing of big business. Read The Greatest Cases of Pinkerton Detective Agency by Allan Pinkerton with a free trial. The Pinkertons may have foiled an assassination attempt on Abraham Lincoln. Following her death in 1868, he even had her buried in his family plot. Pinkerton would later list Warne as one of the best investigators he ever hired. During another case, she got a suspect to feed her crucial information by disguising herself as a fortune-teller. Allan Pinkerton was hesitant to hire a female investigator, but he gave in after Warne convinced him that she could “worm out secrets in many places to which it was impossible for male detectives to gain access.” True to her word, Warne proved to be an expert at working undercover, once busting a thief by cozying up to his wife and convincing her to reveal the location of the loot.
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In 1856, 23-year-old widow Kate Warne walked into Pinkerton’s Chicago office and requested a job as a detective. Portrait of Scottish-born American private detective Allan Pinkerton (1819 – 1884) who founded the world’s first and most famous private security service, the Pinkerton Agency which exists to this day, late 19th Century.