New York, Oct. 8.
Allan Pinkerton, head of the famous Pinkerton Detective Agency, has died as the result of gassing and wounds received in the Great War, He served on' General Pershing's staff in France a3 head of the Criminal Investigation Department in the Provost-Marshal-General's Department.
Allan Pinkerton, for many years unobserved in detective circles began on his own initiative at an carly age, opened a private detective agency, struggling along until] his ability brought him recognition in conmereial circles, His success was such that during the Great War the American Government called upon to him to take charge of the overseas espionage department, "Pinkerton" in America" is th Scotland Yard in Britain, one being official, the other civilian, Novelists in' the two the name corks of art,' lime-novel writers" elected Pinkerton as their hero.
But the real worth of Pinkerton is not in fiction, Pinkerton as a youth and in his early maturity established ® reputation, which led. big: business mien to call on his services. In the first decade of this. century, it was Pinkerton who the Omaha' millionaire packer, Mr. Cudahy, called in at the time his Kidnapped. His suc-time brought him final prominence. Since then he figure, banks and business establishments relying on the highly organized in: which he founded to protect them and their valuables.
During the war his work, personally and through his assistants, both in America and abroad, was of Great assistance to his own country and to the Allies—Reuter and Special,
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