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平克顿侦探社的侦探们后来成为美国的秘密情报员 (维吉尼亚州，1862)
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私家侦探平克顿 (Allan
Pinkerton) 于1819年8月25日出生于苏格兰的格拉斯高 (Glasgow)
于是，平克顿协助警方逮捕这些人与其他同伙，而他自己也因此被认命为肯恩县 (Kane County) 的副警长。后来，平克顿更成为芝加哥的第一位全职侦探。到了1850年，平克顿辞去公职，并设立了属于自己的侦探社－平克顿侦探社－也是全国第一家侦探社，提供了许多私人侦探的服务，其中最擅长的就是逮捕那些火车强盗与伪造货币的不良份子。到了1870年代，这家侦探社已经拥有了全世界最多嫌疑犯特写照片与最大犯罪数据库。这家侦探社的标志，就是一个打开的眼睛，所以人们把侦探称为是
“Private Eye”。
Assisting in the arrest of these men and another gang led first to Pinkerton's appointment as deputy sheriff of Kane County and, later, as Chicago's first full-time detective. In 1850, Pinkerton left this post to start his own detective agency. One of the first of its kind, the Pinkerton National Detective Agency provided a wide array of private detective services and specialized in the capture of train robbers and counterfeiters. By the 1870s, the agency had the world's largest collection of mug shots and a criminal database. The agency's logo, the All-Seeing Eye, inspired the term "Private Eye."
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