The Adams Express Company had a monopoly on the express business if the Southand had established agencies at all points with which there was communicationby rai... » 

The Adams Express Company had a monopoly on the express business if the Southand had established agencies at all points with which there was communicationby rail steam or stage. Adams Express handled all the money sent south forthe purchase of produce or remitted north in payment of merchandise. Among itsmost trusted employees was a man named Maroney upright and reliable whoone day found himself being delivered a sack of money which was not on the waybill. When shortly later the money was discovered to have been misdirected and now missing suspicion fell on Maroney but his integrity had alwaysbeen unquestioned. It was determined to say nothing but to have the movementsof Maroney and other suspected parties closely watched . . . Allan Pinkerton18191884 the detective who conducted secret service for General McClellanwas author of Thirty Years a Detective and The Burglars Fate and theDetectives. «