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 [letterhead: Pinkerton's National Detective Agency, eyeball logo, 'we never sleep']
Chicago Illinois
Sept. 1rth 1888.  
H.B. Stone Esq.  
Genl.Manager. C.B.&Q.R.R.  
City  
Dear Sir.  
Following find report of Opt H.H.F. dated at Aurora Sept 14 & 15th 1888.  
Operative reports That: as usual he started out to locate his men. and saw Bauereisen during the forenoon he went to the Cigar Store 110 Fox St. Stayed there till 10.15 a.m. then went home. Opt did not see any of the rest. at 2 p.m. according to instructions from Supt. Rhodes he met Frank W. (Opt) and they went to Sugar Grove to see McClean. found him and Opt F.W. started the Conversation by asking him to be Agent for lands in Kansas and Nebraska: saying he had been recomended as a good man. but soon changed the subject - and told him that both Opts were brotherhood men, (Engineers) and asked him what it was he had reported against the brotherhood Men. he said he had done nothing of the kind: (just then, another man who proved to be the Depot Master came up to where the 3 men were talking!) that he had never reported them as Brotherhood men: Opt asked whether he was working for the Compajkny: he first said no but when he found out that Opts knew him, he ad-

from Pinkerton report on strikebreaking efforts, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company Records, 1888. Transcribed by Ekbush on 2020/06/21

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