Criminal reminiscences and detective sketches by Pinkerton Allan

Author:Pinkerton, Allan [Pinkerton, Allan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Detectives -- United States, Pinkerton, 1819-1884, Allan
Publisher: New York : G.W. Carleton & Co. ; London : S. Low, Son & Co.
Published: 1879-03-22T18:30:00+00:00

A BOGUS BARONET AND ffSS VICTIMS. \J\

that an embezzlement, amounting to two or three thou sand dollars, had occurred on their route between Chicago and a large city further west.

With what slight information I could secure, I immediately detailed several of my best operatives, and within a short time had secured a happy result to my work, which brought out the following facts:

About six weeks before, J. R. Wilson, a pleasant-faced, boyish fellow of about twenty, and a messenger of the express company between Chicago and the city referred to, one of the most important express routes in the country, was introduced by another messenger to one W. S. G. Mercer, proprietor of a Randolph Street saloon and restaurant. Mercer cultivated Wilson's acquaintance assiduously—so much so, in fact, that the two were firm friends within a week or two, and, when Wilson was in Chicago, were constantly in each other's society—

About two weeks previous to the call upon me by Mr. Ballard, Mercer, who was none ojier than the bogus Sir Henry, and who had degenerated from a live baronet to a Chicago saloon-keeper, gambler, and ward politician—about as low as it is possible for one to get —took * trip to the western city with his young friend, and the twc had a very gay time of it, during which the crafty Mercer praised Wilson's good qualities, fine appearance, jtnd splendid business abilities, cunningly coming around to delicate insinuations that the boy was having too hard a of it for one of his good parts, and finally, with der

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