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Died. William Allan Pinkerton, 77, "The Eye," whose estate was estimated at between $15,000,000 and $20,000,000, in Los Angeles. His father, Allan Pinkerton, who founded Pinkerton's National Detective Agency in 1852, "saved the life" of President Lincoln in Baltimore on his way to Washington to be inaugurated, by taking him off the Presidential "special" and sending him through Baltimore on a preceding regular train. During the Civil War, the elder Pinkerton put William, then 15 years old, in the U. S. Secret Service, later sent him to Notre Dame. In 1884, on the death...
...Harvard interscholastic relay carnival held Saturday afternoon at Soldiers Field, Pinkerton Academy of Derzy N. Hoston the Class B event for New England preparatory schools, while Medford took first place in the Class C section for Massachusetts high schools, leading Boston Latin by the small margin of 2-5 of a second. The meet was marred by the absence of all Class A schools...
...Pinkerton Academy, running against St. John's, won the Class B event with the time of 3 minutes 27 seconds...
Class B.--Won by Pinkerton Academy (Huntoon, Eddy, Bartlett, and Rice); second, Noble and Greenough (Fessenden, Simmonds, Spalding, and Hunneman); third, St. John's Preparatory School (Hurley, Chisholm, Grace, and Bray). Time, 3 minutes 27 seconds...
Class B, New England Preparatory Schools.--Browne and Nichols, Dean Academy, St. John's Milton Academy, Noble and Greenough, and Pinkerton Academy...