The Burglar's Fate and the Detectives by Allan Pinkerton Fiction Action & Adventure Mystery & Detective

<p><strong>On a hot sultry weekday of summer in the bank of the small agricultural town of Geneva business has been bustling all afternoon.</strong> Just after the doors have been closed for the day a knock is heard -- and inwards burst two men who seize the clerks and bind them -- and then lock them into the safe!</p><p>If in the punishment of Eugene Pearson Dr. Johnson Newton Edwards and Thomas Duncan the young men of to-day who are tempted by folly or extravagance learn that their condemnation was but the natural and inevitable result of thoughtless crime -- and if their experience shall be the means of deterring one young man from the commission of a deed which the repentance of years will not obliterate I shall feel that I have not labored in vain. -- Allan Pinkerton.</p>