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ii8 The Pinkerton Labor Spy.
gained ground that he had met with foul play and been thrown into some neglected prospect hole.
Here was meat for the Pinkerton people. A representative of the Agency at once proceeded to Telluride, interviewed the mine owners, and took up with them the assassination of Manager Collins, and the probable murder of Barney.
He explained 1 j them that these outrages were undoubtedly the doings of the Inner Circle of the Federation, as the latter organization was, if anything, even worse than the Molly Maguires ever had been. Talking of the Mollies, the Pinkerton agent told his credulous and interested listeners how, some thirty years ago, these banditti had things all their own way in the anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania; and how James McParland, at the risk of his own life, ran down and broke up