ABSTRACT
As the president of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad, Samuel Felton had informants working for him to warn him about possible train robberies. There was only one man Samuel Felton could turn to for help. Allan Pinkerton started one of the first legitimate private detective agencies in America. Allan Pinkerton started one of the first legitimate private detective agencies in America. All along the railroad, Pinkerton agents guarded bridges and overpasses so no militia could get near. And for safety’s sake, some of the Pinkerton men even cut the telegraph lines so no one could alert the press that the president was ill. Six days later Abraham Lincoln tried to relax and watch a play. Unfortunately, it was not a Pinkerton man who was assigned to guard the president. Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on April 15, 1865.
