A Cowboy Detective Quotes

“My work had been successful. I cannot disclose the nature of the operation as the agency may have other work to do on it.”
― Charles A. Siringo, A Cowboy Detective: A True Story Of Twenty-Two Years With A World Famous Detective Agency

“are deluded and led astray by rank, blood thirsty blatherskites.”
― Charles A. Siringo, A Cowboy Detective: A True Story Of Twenty-Two Years With A World Famous Detective Agency

“Mr. Cochran started me to work on certain mining men of the camp to gain certain information for the benefit of him and his associates. My name here was Chas. T. Lloyd. I remained over a month and did the work successfully.”
― Charles A. Siringo, A Cowboy Detective: A True Story Of Twenty-Two Years With A World Famous Detective Agency

“Once a week she would have to strain her nerves in going over about one dozen letters and a few dozen papers, mostly Fireside Companions from Portland, Maine. The mail sack would be dumped out on the floor and sorted over there.”
― Charles A. Siringo, A Cowboy Detective: A True Story Of Twenty-Two Years With A World Famous Detective Agency

“To recite all my ups and downs and the valuable information about outlaws and tough characters secured for my agency would take up too much space.”
― Charles A. Siringo, A Cowboy Detective: A True Story Of Twenty-Two Years With A World Famous Detective Agency

“After investigating matters connected with my operation, I returned to Panhandle City, where Glen Alpine, Jr., was mounted, and a start made south.”
― Charles A. Siringo, A Cowboy Detective: A True Story Of Twenty-Two Years With A World Famous Detective Agency

“When the furnace was completed, we figured it would require several days to dry, so as to be fit for use, and during this time I concluded to visit Killisnoo and buy a few luxuries as well as a bottle of Carter’s Little Liver Pills, as I pretended to need some medicine.”
― Charles A. Siringo, A Cowboy Detective: A True Story Of Twenty-Two Years With A World Famous Detective Agency

“Shortly after the burial of the woman, I got sick with a burning fever. Late in the evening I started for Lamy Junction, the nearest store, a distance of 12 miles, to get a bottle of Carter’s little liver pills, my favorite remedy when feeling badly. I secured a room in the Harvey hotel and taking a dose of pills, went to bed for the night. Next morning I felt worse and was burning up with fever. Still”
― Charles A. Siringo, A Cowboy Detective: A True Story Of Twenty-Two Years With A World Famous Detective Agency

“Years later, my friend, Attorney W. T. Skoll of Spokane, Washington, showed me the new volume of the Federal Reporter, Vol. 61, p. 163, containing the decisions rendered on the Mudsill mine-salting case, and Mr. Skoll informed me that this was the only mine-salting case ever passed on by the Circuit Judges of the United States. Thus did the Mudsill mine-salting operation end, and become part of our law history to be used as a precedent in future mine-salting cases.”
― Charles A. Siringo, A Cowboy Detective: A True Story Of Twenty-Two Years With A World Famous Detective Agency

“home of the man-eater, Alfred Packard, who had killed and eaten the choice parts of five men. He had been taken to the penitentiary for life a few years previous.”
― Charles A. Siringo, A Cowboy Detective: A True Story Of Twenty-Two Years With A World Famous Detective Agency

“put in a patrol wagon.”
― Charles A. Siringo, A Cowboy Detective: A True Story of Twenty-two Years with a World-Famous Detective Agency