Danbury (Conn.) -- History]]> Pinkerton, Robert A. (Robert Allan), 1848-1907]]> Pinkerton, Robert A. (Robert Allan), 1848-1907]]> Pinkerton, Robert A. (Robert Allan), 1848-1907]]> Pinkerton, Robert A. (Robert Allan), 1848-1907]]> Pinkerton, Robert A. (Robert Allan), 1848-1907]]> ]]> Pinkerton, Robert A. (Robert Allan), 1848-1907]]> Danbury (Conn.)--Arson fire 1890 1891]]> Ives, Joseph M.]]> Pinkerton, Robert A. (Robert Allan), 1848-1907]]> Danbury (Conn.) -- Arson Case 1890-1891]]> Report from Pinkerton Operative McM (McManus) to Danbury Alderman Jos. M. Ives.
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The operative's first morning in the city brings him into conference with Joseph M. Ives, the Alderman to whom the Pinkerton reports are addressed. Mr. Ives gives him a brief outline of the city's expectations of his investigation, and then proceed to visit the sites of the fires currently under investigation -- Foster Brother's Lumber Yard, Clark's Box Factory, Osborne's Lumber Yard, Greene's Box Factory, and Reed's Machine Shop.
The operative is then introduced by J.M. Ives to the Mayor Lewis LeGrand Hopkins, Alderman to the Second Ward Mortimer G. Rundle, and Ellery J. (a.k.a William) McPhelemy who is a Councilman of the Fourth Ward and serves as a member of the Joint Standing Committee for the Fire Department.
Danbury's city administration expresses its strong suspicions of Howard Stevens and Eugene Lobdell (Lovedell).
The operative speaks to Stevens' wife who slurs Morris Meyers and Democrats and blames them for the fires while also saying that she knows who's responsible.]]>
Pinkerton, Robert A. (Robert Allan), 1848-1907]]>