Introduktion til Union, MO bankrøveri

Julenat 1902, to små byer, små-tid, holdup men blew open the safe of the Union, Missouri Bank. Efter at have truet et par borgere, de slap med over $15,000.

Mændene var relativt sikre i et par måneder, indtil Pinkerton Detective Agency blev tilkaldt. The Pinkertons havde et landsdækkende agentur, which was the closest thing the United States had to a national police force. Pinkerton private detectives investigated major crimes in every large American city.

The Pinkerton detective assigned to the bank robbery succeeded, where the local authorities had failed. He identified the robbers. Leading a raiding party to their rural Missouri property, the agent and local sheriff’s deputies were ambushed. During the gun fight, the robbers killed the Pinkerton detective.

This murder activated the machine, which was the Pinkerton Detective Agency. Over two cross-country pursuits, a jail escape, two trials and planned executions, the Pinkerton Agency doggedly pursued justice for its agent.

This book details the robbery and the aftermath, while trying to answer the following questions. Was justice served in this case? Were two desperate criminals killed to protect the community? Or where two men, barely old enough to vote, killed to satisfy the desire for revenge from one of the most powerful detective agencies in United States history? Here is the action packed story of the Union, Missouri Bank Robbery.

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