![]() ![]() The Pinkerton Agency had first worked with the company to solve a robbery in 1866. Adams Express Company (still operating today as an equity fund company) was a freight carrier, running throughout the north and south in the mid-1800s. She was sent to investigate reports of embezzlement within an important client’s staff. Two years after she was hired, Warne scored her first major case. ![]() Pinkerton, however, decided to take on Warne’s services.Īllan Pinkerton Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons It would be many years before women were allowed into front-line policing. American law enforcement, such as it was in the 1860s, didn’t have uniformed female officers or detectives. She offered up the many potential merits of a female detective, from her ability to manipulate targets into believing that she was on their side in a way men could not. ![]() Despite his initial skepticism, Pinkerton was soon charmed by Warne’s manner. Related: 15 Important Women in History You May Not Have Heard ofĪlthough Pinkerton had many women working for him as clerks and secretaries, he had never hired a female detective, claiming it was not the “custom” to do so. She walked into Allan Pinkerton’s office and asked for a job as a detective. Finding herself at loose ends–likely with no way to support herself–she decided on a rather unorthodox course of action. By 1856, at the age of 23, Warne's husband passed away, leaving her a widow. ![]() She was born in the year of 1833 in Erin, New York. ![]()
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