The Expressman and the Detective

The Expressman and the
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Allan Pinkerton's Detective Stories.
[Illustration: THE ROBBER.]
THE EXPRESSMAN AND THE DETECTIVE.
by
ALLAN PINKERTON.
Fifteenth Thousand.

Chicago: W. B. Keen, Cooke & Co., 113 and 115 State Street. 1875.
Copyright, W. B. Keen, Cooke & Co., A. D. 1874.
The Lakeside Press.

PREFACE.
During the greater portion of a very busy life, I have been actively
engaged in the profession of a Detective, and hence have been brought
in contact with many men, and have been an interested participant in
many exciting occurrences.
The narration of some of the most interesting of these events,
happening in connection with my professional labors, is the realization
of a pleasure I have long anticipated, and is the fulfillment of promises
repeatedly made to numerous friends in by gone days.

"THE EXPRESSMAN AND THE DETECTIVE,"
and the other works announced by my publishers, are all true stories,
transcribed from the Records in my offices. If there be any incidental
embellishment, it is so slight that the actors in these scenes from the
drama of life would never themselves detect it; and if the incidents
seem to the reader at all marvelous or improbable, I can but remind him,
in the words of the old adage, that "Truth is stranger than fiction."
ALLAN PINKERTON. CHICAGO, October, 1874.

PUBLISHERS' NOTICE.
The present Volume is the first of a series of Mr. Allan Pinkerton's
thrilling and beautifully written
DETECTIVE STORIES,
all true to life--founded upon incidents in the experience of the great
chief of all detectives.
At intervals the following will appear:
"CLAUDE MELNOTTE AS A DETECTIVE."
"THE TWO SISTERS AND THE AVENGER."
"THE FRENCHMAN AND THE BILLS OF EXCHANGE."
"THE MURDERER AND THE FORTUNE TELLER."
"THE MODEL TOWN AND ITS DETECTIVE."
That these Volumes will meet with a cordial reception we have no
doubt.
W. B. KEEN, COOKE & CO.

ILLUSTRATIONS.
I. Frontispiece--THE ROBBER.
II. At this inopportune moment Simon gave way to his oars, and left the
poor deputy hanging in the air. pp. 40
III. "Yah! yah! yah!" roared both the darkies; "you don't know Mother
Binks! Why, she keeps the finest gals on all the riber." page 69
IV. As he gaily entered the gallery, twirling his handsome cane, he was
welcomed by a pleasant smile from a young lady, an octoroon. page 73
V. Cox and his friends joined in having a good time at the tinker's
expense, and pronounced him "the prince of good fellows." page 86
VI. Franklin gave his orders, and the delicious bivalves were soon
smoking before them. * * * He kept the alderman in such roars of
laughter that he could scarcely swallow his oysters. page 125
VII. "You are my prisoner!" said he. "Nathan Maroney, I demand that
you immediately deliver to me fifty thousand dollars, the property of
the Adams' Express Co." page 131
VIII. On and on he plunged through the darkness, following the sound
of the hoofs and wheels. At times he felt that he must give up and drop
by the way; but he forced the feeling back and plunged on with the
determination of winning. page 145
IX. "Wal, stranger, whar yar bound?" was his first salutation. Roch
looked at him in a bewildered way and then said, "Nichts verstehe!"
page 158
X. Mrs. Maroney looked him full in the face with flashing eyes,
clenched her little hand, and in a voice hoarse from passion, exclaimed:
"What do you want here, you scoundrel?" page 190

XI. In a second, Mrs. Maroney grasped a pitcher and smashed it over
Josh.'s skull. page 222
XII. Raising the dead animal by its caudal appendage, he angrily
exclaimed, "That's my dog!" page 226
XIII. As he stood outside of the counter, I was enabled to call off all the
packages on the way-bill, but dropped the four containing the forty
thousand dollars under the counter. page 237
XIV. The peddler lifted his satchel into the buggy; the Madam
hurriedly emptied it of its contents, and