WILLIAM A. PINKERTON
True Detective
Stories
From the Archives of thePinkertons
By
Cleveland Moffett
NEW YORK:
G. W. Dillingham Co., Publishers,
Copyright, 1893, 1894
S. S. McClure Co.
Copyright, 1897
Doubleday & McClure Co.
CONTENTS
| PAGE | ||
| The Northampton Bank Robbery | 1 | |
| The Susquehanna Express Robbery | 57 | |
| The Pollock Diamond Robbery | 95 | |
| The Rock Island Express | 121 | |
| The Destruction of the Renos | 161 | |
| The American Exchange Bank Robbery | 193 |
The Northampton Bank Robbery
The Northampton Bank Robbery
bout midnight on Tuesday, January 25, 1876, five masked men enteredthe house of John Whittelsey in Northampton, Massachusetts. Mr.Whittelsey was the cashier of the Northampton National Bank, and wasknown to have in his possession the keys of the bank building and thecombination to the bank vault. The five men entered the housenoiselessly, with the aid of false keys, previously prepared. Passingup-stairs to the sleeping-apartments, they overpowered seven inmatesof the house, gagging and binding them so that resistance[4] or alarmwas impossible. These
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