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Title: The Burglar's Fate And The Detectives

Author: Allan Pinkerton

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THE BURGLAR'S FATE AND THE DETECTIVES.

by

ALLAN PINKERTON,

Author of
"Expressman and Detective," "Melnotte and Detectives,"
"Professional Thieves and Detectives,"
"Railroad Forger and Detectives,"
"Mollie Maguires and Detectives,"
"Spiritualists and Detectives,"
Etc., Etc., Etc.

New York:
G. W. Carleton & Co., Publishers.
London: S. Low, Son & Co.
MDCCCLXXXIV.
Copyright,
by
Allan Pinkerton.
Stereotyped by Samuel Stodder, 42 Dey Street, N.Y.
Trow's Printing And Book-Binding Co., N.Y.

PREFACE.

In the pages which follow I have narrated a story of actual occurrence.
No touch of fiction obscures the truthful recital. The crime which is
here detailed was actually committed, and under the circumstances which
I have related. The four young men, whose real names are clothed with
the charitable mantle of fiction, deliberately perpetrated the deed for
which they suffered and to-day are inmates of a prison. No tint or
coloring of the imagination has given a deeper touch to the action of
the story, and the process of detection is detailed with all the
frankness and truthfulness of an active participant. As a revelation of
the certain consequences which follow the perpetration of crime, I send
this volume forth, in the fervent hope that those who may read its
pages, will glean from this history the lessons of virtue, of honor