Conviction of John Collins

Fifty Years a Detective: 35 Real Detective Stories

by Thomas FURLONG (1844 - 1918)

Hitherto unpublished facts connected with some of Mr. Furlong's greatest cases—Other interesting incidents of his long and strenuous career which really began on September 14, 1862, when he was detailed from his company, (Co. G., 1st Pennsylvania Rifles, better known as the Pennsylvania Bucktails) for special service. - Summary from the Preface

Listen next episodes of Fifty Years a Detective: 35 Real Detective Stories:
A Crooked Doctor's Crime , A Ruse that Worked , Battle with Would-Be Bandits , Capture of a Clever Swindler , Charlie Dalton, Outlaw , Conspirators Handed a Lemon , Decoying a Bad Man , Fight with a Maniac , Fred Erfert's Fall from Grace , George Hersogg's Downfall , Long Hunt for a Defaulter , Murder of Conductor Frazier , Subduing a Notorious Bully , The Big Southwest Strike , The Great Pittsburg Strike , Tragic Death of Bill Casey , Why I am Opposed to Hanging , Why I Oppose Rewards