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قراءة كتاب The Burglar's Fate, and The Detectives
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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, and of the strictest integrity. If in the punishment of Eugene Pearson, Dr. Johnson, Newton Edwards and Thomas Duncan, the young men of to-day, tempted by folly or extravagance, will learn that their condemnation was but the natural and inevitable result of thoughtless crime, and if their experience shall be the means of deterring one young man from the commission of a deed, which the repentance of years will not obliterate, I shall feel that I have not labored in vain. As a true story of detective experience, the actors in which are still living, I give this volume to the world, trusting that its perusal may not fail in its object of interesting and instructing the few or many who may read its pages.
ALLAN PINKERTON.
CONTENTS.
| PREFACE | v |
| CHAPTER I. Geneva—The Robbery—Search for the Burglars—My Agency notified |
11 |
| CHAPTER II. The Investigation begun—John Manning's Visit to Geneva—Eugene Pearson's Story—The Detective's Incredulity—A Miraculous Deliverance with a Ten-Cent Coin |
22 |
| CHAPTER III. An Interview with Miss Patton—Important Revelations—Doubts Strengthened—Mr. Bartman's Story—William Resolves to seek Newton Edwards |
38 |
| CHAPTER IV. The Work Progresses—Eugene Pearson's Early Life—On the Trail of Newton Edwards |
51 |
| CHAPTER V. New Developments—Tidings of Newton Edwards—Suspicions Strengthening against Eugene Pearson—Mr. Silby's Confidence |
63 |
| CHAPTER VI. The Detective at Woodford—An Interview with the Discarded Wife of Newton Edwards |
77 |
| CHAPTER VII. A Fire and a Talkative Fireman—Mrs. Edwards Receives a Letter |
90 |
| CHAPTER VIII. A Plan to Intercept Correspondence—Edwards fully Identified A pretty Servant Girl and a Visit to Church |
102 |
| CHAPTER IX. Waiting and Watching—Two Letters—Newton Edwards' Hiding-Place Discovered |
116 |
| CHAPTER X. The Burglar Tracked to his Lair—The old Stage Driver—A Fishing Party—A Long Wait—A Sorrowful Surprise—The Arrest of Newton Edwards |
125 |
| CHAPTER XI. Newton Edwards brought back to Chicago—Attempt to Induce a Confession—a Visit to his Relatives—The Burglar Broken Down |
141 |
| CHAPTER XII. The Confession of Newton Edwards—The foul Plot fully Explained Eugene Pearson's Guilt clearly Proven—A Story of Temptation and Crime |
154 |
| CHAPTER XIII. Edwards taken to Geneva—The Arrest of Eugene Pearson His Confession—More Money Recovered—Dr. Johnson Arrested |
167 |
| CHAPTER XIV. Proceedings at Geneva—Speculations as to the Missing Five Thousand Dollars—John Manning Starts in Search of Thomas Duncan |
182 |
| CHAPTER XV. On the Track of the fleeing Burglar—Duncan's Home—Some Reflections |
192 |
| CHAPTER XVI. Bob King meets with a Surprise—His Story of Duncan's Flight The Detective starts Westward |
208 |
| CHAPTER XVII. Manning Strikes the Trail—An Accommodating Tailor—Temporary Disappointment and final Success—The Detective reaches Minneapolis |
224 |
| CHAPTER XVIII. The Detective at Bismarck—Further Traces of the Fugitive A Protracted Orgie—A Jewish Friend of the Burglar in Trouble |
241 |