pinkerton detective agency

If you've ever seen The Wild Bunch, 3:10 to Yuma, or played Red Dead Redemption series of games you're probably familiar with The Pinkertons. Created by a Scottish immigrant in the 1850's, In the beginning The Pinkerton Detective Agency did everything from spy on the confederacy during the civil war to protecting Abe Lincoln on the train ride to his inauguration. Later they made their name stopping outlaw gangs from robbing trains (i.e. Jesse James, The Wild Bunch). And even later they gave into greed and began infiltrating trade unions and were used as strike breakers against those trying to fight for their fair share and acceptable working conditions. Yeah these guys went from Heroes to Zeroes and we're covering the whole fall. 

Get ready for this story because Alana can’t stop fangirling over Kate Warne. Decades before women were part of the police force, Kate Warne walked into the Pinkerton Detective Agency to apply to be a detective. Assuming Kate was there to work as a secretary, Allan Pinkerton was taken aback but ultimately swayed by Kate’s persuasive argument and agreed to hire her. Over the course of her life, Kate would prove to be an unbelievable asset to the Pinkerton Agency, solving murders, working undercover and saving the life of the President elect, Abraham Lincoln.

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Sources:

• On the Inside: Discovery Channel-Pinkerton Detective Agency https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwO6Z2W-IJE
• Allan Pinkerton: America’s Most Famous Private Eye: Biographics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ0byzPA8F0
• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-kate-warne-americas-first-woman-detective-foiled-a-plot-to-assassinate-abraham-lincoln-180979829/
• https://youtu.be/Go_OefM_Z4U?feature=shared
• https://youtu.be/1d7dbhhFkog?si=PAn_kyQ_D8eYKTlr
• https://www.nps.gov/foth/learn/historyculture/kate-warne-private-detective.htm
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/02/15/kate-warne-lincoln-bodyguard-assassins/
• https://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2011/03/kate-warne.html
• https://explorethearchive.com/kate-warne-first-female-detective
• https://allthatsinteresting.com/kate-warne
• https://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-figures/kate-warne
• https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/specialfeatures/miss-scarlet-and-the-duke-meet-historys-early-female-detectives/#
• https://cowgirlmagazine.com/hattie-lawton-wild-women-wednesday/
• Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph - 11 Feb 1951, Sun · Page 80 https://www.newspapers.com/image/524659772/
• The Louisville Daily Courier - 01 Mar 1861, Fri · Page 1 https://www.newspapers.com/image/119232545

Reilly and George are joined this week on the Hypothetical Island once more by writer Fred Van Lente, for a talk on sleepiness, zombie apocalypses, being tired, baseball, exhaustion, philosophy and never sleeping. Speaking of, Fred talks about his new novel, Never Sleep, releasing soon, which tells the amazing true story of the world's first female private investigators and how they prevented the assassination of Abraham Lincoln!--well, not the Ford Theatre time, another attempt. 

On today's episode Sophia tells the story of the first female detective, Kate Warne. We dive deeper into the history of the Pinkerton detective agency and a harrowing murder investigation. This story is paired with Luis Vieira’s crisp 2020 Montaria White. Visit us at www.afinevintagepodcast.com for more information and to purchase merchandise!

Our sources include:

Chris, Enss. The Pinks. TwoDot, 2017.

Meltzer, Brad, and Josh Mensch. The Lincoln Conspiracy. Flatiron Books, 2020.

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/30/940196997/amazon-reportedly-has-pinkerton-agents-surveil-workers-who-try-to-form-unions

In this episode, Alex Zambito tells the twisted story of the FBI’s efforts to infiltrate and dismantle leftist movements in America. COINTELPRO campaigns began in the 50s, targeting communists, anti-war activists, and black leaders of the civil rights movement. 

Alex Zambito is on the editorial board for Midwestern Marx – a website and journal offering Marxist analysis of politics and history. He is currently pursuing his masters in history. His work focuses on anti-communist repression campaigns in western “democracies” and the history of proletarian struggles around the globe. Check out his article about COINTELPRO here:  The FBI’s War on the Left: A Short History of COINTELPRO



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If you are ever in Philadelphia, perhaps you could attempt to find 1316 Callowhill St., this use to be the address of a patent office, owned by H.H. Holmes and his partner Ben Pitezel, the elusive address is now a parking lot which stretches the length of an entire city block.  Just across the road stands the North American Building, but there use to be a station servicing the Philadelphia and Reading Railroads.

Just down the road is the building which holds The Philadelphia Inquirer, the very paper which covered all of the salacious news stories during the time of H.H. Holmes.

This is an odd piece of a neighborhood now, filled mostly with abandoned buildings, an area tucked between Chinatown and the poverty-stricken portion of North Philadelphia. But when H.H. Holmes wandered these streets, the city was very different.

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Join Drifter & Gypsie as we take you back to the Graceland Cemetery in Chicago Illinois and delve a bit into Allan Pinkerton & the Pinkertons Detective Agency.

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What made Detective Warne so special to the Pinkerton Detective Agency?

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