Two Evil Isms, Pinkertonism and Anarchism
By a Cowboy Detective Who Knows, as He Spent Twenty-Two Years in the Inner Circle of Pinkerton's National Detective Agency (1915)
2021 · 120 pages
By a Cowboy Detective Who Knows, as He Spent Twenty-Two Years in the Inner Circle of Pinkerton's National Detective Agency (1915)
2021 · 120 pages
"In Two Evil Isms he boldly says that Horn was hired by the agency to help 'wealthy cattlemen get rid of small ranchmen' at $600 a head." -J. Frank Dobie, Fort Worth Star Telegram, Jan. 22, 1950 "Siringo and Tom Horn became well acquainted...Siringo began to hear ominous stories about his former comrade and turned against him." - Tom Horn in Life and Legend (2014) "Siringo was known to have an intimate knowledge of western outlaws...once had a shooting contest with the notorious western gunfighter Billy the Kid." - Man-Hunters of the Old West (2017) "In his memoir, Two Evil Isms...Siringo wrote...Tom Horn was guilty of the crime but people could not allow him to go to prison." -When Outlaws Wore Badges (2021) The author served with the Pinkerton National Detective Agency for twenty-two years, and he publishes revelations from the inside, including about fellow Pinkerton the notorious gunman Tom Horn in his 1915 book "Two Evil Isms, Pinkertonism and Anarchism." These stories of the methods of the Pinkertons were so objectionable to the private detectives that Mr. Siringo has been subjected to persistent persecution. Efforts have been made to exclude his book from the mails; and he himself has been arrested on warrants charging him with libel. In his book, Mr. Siringo deals with Chicago anarchist cases, the Coeur D'Alene riots, the Haywood trial, and many other thrilling episodes of crime. Mr. Siringo's description of the slavery system of the Rockefellers and other Coal Kings in Colorado: his flash-lights on the custom of politicians who hire private detective agencies to corrupt voters; his exposures of how juries were fixed, and witnesses either found or lost, constitute a moving picture showing of ways of "playing the game" in the early 1900s. About the author: Charles Angelo Siringo was born February 7, 1855, Matagorda County, Texas, and died October 18, 1928, in Los Angeles County, California. He was a cowboy, lawman, detective, bounty hunter, and agent for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. After moving to California, he played the part of an old cowboy in the movie Nine Scars Make a Man. In 1925, Siringo served as a consultant for William S. Hart's Tumbleweeds.
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