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The Pinkerton Detective Agency was founded in 1850 by Allan Pinkerton. His career as a detective bagan when he stumbled upon a bandit camp on an island while looking for materials for barrels.

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After the Civil War ended with the victory of The Union, many rich confederate used-to-be slave owners hated Lincoln for freeing the slaves. Some even started plotting to assassinate him.

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Lincoln was assassinated on this day, at 10:15 pm, at Ford's Theatre, Washington D.C. He was celebrating the end of the Civil War and attending theatre with his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, when he was shot in the back of his head by John Wilkes Booth. That same night, the assassination of William H. Seward was attempted by fellow conspirator of John Wilkes Booth, Lewis Powell. Powel broke in to Seward's house and stabbed him in the face and neck and ran off. Seward survived the assassination. John Wilkes Booth and all of his conspirators were caught and executed on July 7, 1865.

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Counterfeit became a major problem in the 1850's, when the amount of counterfeit money summed up to nearly 50% of all the United States currency. On July 5, 1865, The Secret Service was created to stop counterfeiters from creating more and more counterfeit money.

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Benjamin Boyd was arrested for producing counterfeit currency at his house on thirteenth avenue in Fulton, Illinois, where he lived by the name of B.W. Wilson. His wife, Allie Boyd was caught on her way to a hotel with a basket full of counterfeit.

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This night was Benjamin and Allie Boyd's trial. It didn't take long for Benjamin to be pleaded guilty. However, his wife Allie Boyd was acquitted, as she said she was only doing her wife responsibilities by covering her husband's guilt up. This arrest would later be followed up by both national and ghoulish consequences.

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Big Jim's counterfeiting business has nearly crashed when Ben Boyd was imprisoned, because he was his best engraver. Big Jim meets with the Logan County Gang and hires them to steal Lincoln's body. Big Jim made a plan to steal the body and demand ransom; 200,000 dollars and Ben Boyd's freedom.

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(Bonus) The Haymarket Affair happened in Chicago on May 1st, 1886. The people were protesting that they have too much hours of labor per day, and not enough time for rest and recreation. At least 7 policemen and 4 workers were killed. Another 60 people were wounded.

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This was Big Jim's originally-planned day to steal Lincoln's body. They chose this day because people would be too busy preparing for Independence day to see them, and the next day too busy to notice that the body is missing, giving the gang time to escape and hide. However they had to change

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This was election day, the day Hughes and mullen planned to steal the body. They planned for election day because they thought that since everyone would be busy with the election nobody would notice them.

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Swegles was asked to help catch Mullen and Hughes. He agreed, and was payed $10. He went to the Hub, entered through a back door, and gestured to a friend to let Big Jim Kennally, who was tending the bar, know he was there. Big Jim said that they were a group of "babies that need to be spanked and put to bed" for not being able to complete "such a simple task". Swegles easily got them to believe that he was on their side. He found out that Mullen was on his way back to the Hub, and Hughes was at his father's farm.

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Before coming back to the Hub, Mullen sent a message to Swegles to ask if the coast was clear. Swegles said it was. Eventually, after Mullen came back to the Hub, so did Hughes.

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The trial of Hughes and Mullen started on May 29, 1877. The main evidence against them was the two letters that Mullen tried to send to his friends to give him a good alibi, however there was more evidence, like Jack Hughes's shoes, and the tools used for the break-in (which were later given to John Carroll Power as exhibits for his museum). The prosecutor Charles Reed pleaded hughes and Mullen guilty and sentenced them to a couple of years in the Joliet State Prison, Illinois.

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The Lincoln grave-robbing case was officially closed, and Jack Hughes and Terrence Mullen were taken to Joliet, where they joined Ben Boyd behind the bars at the Illinois State Penitentiary.

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Patrick Tyrrell visits Robert Lincoln to inform him that the grave-robbing case is closed and the perpetrators are behind bars. As a symbol of thankfulness, Robert Lincoln gave Tyrrell a large painting of his father, the martyr president, Abraham Lincoln.

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Lincoln's tomb had been rebuilt and fixed, and on this day they moved him back there and set him in the catacomb, exactly where he was in 1876. Robert Lincoln did not agree with this because it wasn't safe and he feared the body would be attempted to be stolen again in the near future if they don't do something. So Robert ordered a ten-feet-deep hole to be dug in the catacomb, and Lincoln's coffin to be placed in a steel cage and buried under ten feet of cement. In that same tomb were buried Lincoln's close relatives, including his wife and children. You can still visit this tomb today.