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countered a Confederate spy he had seen in Cincinnati. Instead of fleeing northward as his pursuer ex' pected, Major Allan headed his horse deeper into Confederate territory.
A barber in Jackson, Mississippi, recognised Allan as the "Mr. Pinger' don" he had often shaved in a Chi' cago hotel. Pinkerton put on an act of outraged Southern pride. It was too infuriating for a man from Augusta, Georgia — as Pinkerton told them — to be taken for a Yankee. Pinkerton invited his fellow South' erners to join him at a nearby bar where he magnified his wounded pride.
The only important humiliation suffered by Pinkerton was at the hands of a notorious and well' educated lock expert named Shinburn. On the morning of June 27, 1869, the Ocean National Bank of New York City discovered a theft of more than three-quarters of a million dollars. The Pinkertons recognized an old hand. The burglar was the same man who escaped
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once when handcuffed to a Pinkerton detective. Shinburn one time got out of prison by making an im' pression of his cell lock with potatoes, and fashioning a key from his iron spoon.
Shinburn had rented a basement adjacent to the bank and posed as_ the representative of a Chicago insurance company. He carefully observed business hours and the habits of the clerks. Late one Saturday night, with accomplices, he bored a hole through the wall. Shinburn, who knew the combination of the vault, simply broke the locks on smaller drawers within the vault. No one knows how he got the combination.
Shinburn escaped to Europe with his loot, where he purchased a title. Continental police could not be lieve Baron Shindell capable of bank, burglary. But who does not believe that Baron Shindell lived the rest of his life with the door bolted and chained for fear that the "eye" would somehow seek him out?
The wife was learning to drive. A neighbor, interested in the process, asked the husband how she was getting along with her driving.
The husband sighed and said, "Not too well. She took a turn for the worse last week."
Allen Benson says he was driving one of those new cars with a bed in the back. A cop stopped him and started writing a ticket.
"I wasn't speeding," Benson said.
"I know," was the cop's retort, "but you haven't changed your linens in weeks."
—Walter Winchell.
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