A True History of the Great Robbery of the Ohio Farmers' Insurance Co., in 1865 ; with Correct Likenesses of Asa Farnum and Jas. Burlison, the Akron detective

Akron, OH: H. G. Canfield, 1886. 8vo, 92 pages, printed wrappers; the penultimate leaf of detective Burlison's text is defective and lacks text, but the following leaf (tho defective) retains the full woodcut image of Burlison. Rare.

"On the night of April 3d, 1865, the Safe of the Ohio Farmers Insurance Company at Le Roy, Medina County, Ohio was cracked and some $61,000.00 taken therefrom. ... Samuel M. Felker was arrested in Chicago by Detective Pinkerton, and brought to Medina and lodged in jail, where he confessed that he knew where all the bonds and money were, and that he could and would provide the same, on condition that he should be released." "... the guilty and self-confessed thieves were permitted to escape and protected in the enjoyment of their ill-gotten gains, has thus far remained a mystery. This little book proposes to give a true and faithful history of the whole matter, which will read like a romance - Preface." This tale was 20 years in the telling. The prefatory Note is dated 1864. There may have been an 1885 edition ( the tipped-on copyright notice is dated 1885). WorldCat cites only 3 copies of any edition of this booklet - all in Ohio. Includes much correspondence with Allen Pinkerton.