Train Robberies, Train Robbers, and the "Hold-Up" Men

By William A. Pinkerton

Address Given at the Annual Convention of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, 1907. “Heretofore my addresses have been upon subjects with which most of us are familiar and, while I know there are among those present, members of this Association who have had more or less t(3 do with the apprehension of the train robber or ''hold-up" criminal, a product we have that no other country has ex- cept as our fugitives ; I believe some reminiscences of these outlaws will be of interest. As the detective agents throughout the United States of many railroad, express and stage companies and of the American Bankers' Association, and co-operating with police officials, United States marshals, sheriffs, railroads detectives and various other law enforcement authorities, for over fifty years our agency has been, engaged investigating many of the robberies of railroad trains, banks and stages by this desperate robber ; my father, the late Allan Pinkerton, my brother Robert and I, often in these years personally taking part in running down this now almost extinct outlaw.

Wm. A. and Robert A. Pinkerton, Chicago and New York. 1907. 86p.