True Detective Stories from the Archives of the Pinkertons

“Chicago, on Cottage Grove Avenue, near Thirty-sixth Street, where he was operating with another high-class burglar, "Billy" Boyce.””

— Cleveland Moffett

“Grand Trunk Railroad, where they boarded a freight train for Toronto. After a brief stay in that city they””

— Cleveland Moffett

“Edward Sturgis Crawford at this time was about twenty-seven years old, a man of medium height, a decided blond, with large blue eyes, and of a rather effeminate type. He went scrupulously dressed, had white hands with carefully manicured nails, parted his hair in the middle, and altogether was somewhat of a dandy.””

— Cleveland Moffett

“he first, and probably the most daring, band of train robbers that ever operated in the United States was the notorious Reno gang, an association of desperate outlaws who, in the years immediately following the war, committed crimes without number in Missouri and Indiana,””

— Cleveland Moffett

“A most unusual place of concealment had been chosen, and one where the money had escaped discovery, although on several occasions, in searching the house, the detectives had literally held it in their hands. Schwartz had taken a quantity of the cartridges he bought for his shot-gun, and emptying them, had put in each shell one of the fifty- or one-hundred-dollar bills, upon which he had then loaded in the powder and the shot in the usual way, so that the shells presented the ordinary appearance as they lay in the drawer.””

— Cleveland Moffett

“She said that her husband's mind had been inflamed by the constant reading of sensational literature of the dime-novel order;””

— Cleveland Moffett

“It was not until ten o'clock in the evening that he appeared on the street, his purpose in going out being to purchase some groceries.””

— Cleveland Moffett

“he returned to the bath-room, and there made a discovery which filled him with consternation. He saw in the brick wall, what at first had escaped his attention, a gaping hole, large enough to allow the passage of a man's body.””

— Cleveland Moffett

“The criminal annals of the United States contain no more thrilling chapter than that of the adventures of "Red" Leary. He was a typical desperado in appearance, with his shock of red hair, and his bristling red mustache, and his ugly, heavy-jawed face, while his huge neck and shoulders, his big head, and powerful hairy hands impressed one with his enormous physical strength.””

— Cleveland Moffett