The strikers were waiting for them and a day long battle took place. The men were brought in on armed barges down the Monongahela River. In 1892 the Amalgamated Iron and Steel Workers Union called out its members at the Homestead plant owned by Andrew Carnegie and Henry Frick. The Pinkerton Detective Agency often supplied men to break strikes. They appointed James McParland and Charlie Siringo to run the Pinkerton's western division. The brothers opened their fourth office in Denver. This included Kehoe, a former union leader who was convicted of a murder that had taken place fourteen years previously.Īfter Allan Pinkerton died in 1884, the Pinkerton Detective Agency was run by his two sons, Robert Pinkerton and William Pinkerton. Twenty members were found guilty of murder and were executed. In 18 James McParland was the star witness for the prosecution of John Kehoe and the Molly Maguires. McParland was tipped off that Kehoe was planning to murder him so he fled from the area. John Kehoe, one of the leaders of the Molly Maguires became suspicious of McParland and began to investigate his past. Many of these men were the managers of coal mines in the region. This included the murder of around fifty men in Schuylkill County. Over a two year period James McParland collected evidence about the criminal activities of the Molly Maguires. These bodymasters were usually ex-miners who now worked as saloon keepers. Each county was governed by a bodymaster who recruited members and gave out orders to commit crimes. McParland estimated that the group had about 3,000 members. Soon afterwards he joined the Workingmen's Benevolent Association and the Shenandoah branch of the Ancient Order of Hibernians (AOH), an organisation for Irish immigrants run by the Roman Catholic clergy.Īfter a few months of investigations McParland reported back to Allan Pinkerton that some members of the Ancient Order of Hibernians were also active in the secret organization, the Molly Maguires. Assuming the alias of James McKenna, he found work as a labourer in Shenandoah. Gowen had considerable investments in the coal-mines of Schuylkill County and feared that the trade union activities of John Siney and the Workingmen's Benevolent Association would result in lower profits.Īllan Pinkerton decided to send James McParland to Schuylkill County. Gowen, president of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad, had a meeting with Allan Pinkerton of the Pinkerton Detective Agency. The Pinkerton logo was the origin of the term private eye.
Above this was a huge, black and white eye. On the facade of his three-story Chicago headquarters was the company slogan, "We Never Sleep". The Pinkerton Detective Agency was a great success. McParlan's evidence in court resulted in the execution of twenty of its members. Pinkerton became head of the American secret service during the Civil War and in 1875 used an agent, James McParland, to infiltrate the secret organization, the Molly Maguires. While in Baltimore, while on the way to the inauguration, Pinkerton foiled a plot to assassinate the president. In 1861 the agency was given the task of guarding Abraham Lincoln.
#PINKERTONS DETECTIVE AGENCY SERIES#
The first detective agency in the United States, it solved a series of train robberies. Allan Pinkerton, a deputy-sheriff in Chicago, formed the Pinkerton Detective Agency in 1852.
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