the error was discovered, and the fifty dollars returned to Denver.
The rules of the Pinkerton Agency do not permit an operative or an official to accept a gift or reward at the hands of a client. Therefore, unless an exception was made in this case, the money would have to be refunded to Manager MacNeill.
Manager McParland was very reluctant to do this. He knew the motive which prompted the smelter magnate to make this gift, and heartily approved of it. For this reason, Manager McParland wrote a long letter to General Manager Bangs on April 24th, 1903, in which he recited the operative's faithful services to the smelter trust, the perseverance he displayed in holding down his job at the smelter for over a year,
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and the indignities he suffered after his exposure. In view of these circumstances, the tender-hearted McParland pleaded that the rules might be suspended for once, so that the operative could accept Mr. MacNeill's present.