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Pinkerton National Detective Agency: Allan Pinkerton, Dashiell Hammett, Pinkerton National Detective Agency, James Mcparland, Reno Gang
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-05-02.
ISBN 9781155247762
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Allan Pinkerton, Dashiell Hammett, Pinkerton National Detective Agency, James Mcparland, Reno Gang, Charlie Siringo, Adam Worth, George Samuel Dougherty, Morris Friedman, Anti-Pinkerton Act. Excerpt: Adam Worth Adam Worth (1844 January 8, 1902) was a German-American criminal. Scotland Yard detective Robert Anderson nicknamed him "the Napoleon of the criminal world", and he is commonly referred to as "the Napoleon of Crime". It has been widely speculated that Arthur Conan Doyle used Worth as the prototype for Sherlock Holmes ' nemesis, Professor Moriarty . In his "Books Alive" column in The Chicago Sunday Tribune (December 26, 1943), Vincent Starrett wrote, "Worth was the original of Prof. Moriarty. This information, which isn't generally known, was revealed by Conan Doyle in conversation with Dr. Gray C. Briggs of St. Louis, Dr. Briggs once told me." Starrett was a good friend of Dr. Gray Chandler Briggs (1882 1942), a St. Louis doctor and X-ray specialist. Earlier life Adam Worth was born into a poor Jewish family in the Kingdom of Prussia . His original surname might have been Werth . When he was five years old, his family moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts in the United States and his father became a tailor . In 1854 he ran away from home and moved first to Boston and then in 1860 to New York City . He worked as a clerk in a department store for one month. When the American Civil War broke out, Worth was 17. He lied about his age and enlisted in the Union army. Worth served in the 2nd New York heavy Artillery, Battery L (later designated 34th New York Battery) and was promoted to sergeant in a couple of months. He was wounded in the Second Battle of Bull Run on August 30, 1862 and was shipped to Georgetown Hospital in Washington DC . In the hospital, he learned he had been li
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