Warne was born in New York, Warne became a widow shortly after she married. Warne answered an ad in a local newspaper. Warne walked into Pinkerton’s Chicago office and according to Pinkerton’s records [he] was surprised to learn Kate was not looking for clerical work, but was actually answering an advertisement for detectives he had placed in the newspaper. At the time, it was unheard of Pinkerton said ” It is not the custom to employ women detectives! Kate argued her point of view eloquently – pointing out that women could be “most useful in worming out secrets in many places which would be impossible for a male detective.” A Woman would be able to befriend the wives and girlfriends of suspected criminals and gain their confidence. Men become braggarts when they are around women who encourage them to boast. Kate also noted, Women have an eye for detail and are excellent observers.”
At the time, Allan Pinkerton was well on his way to fame as the founder of America’s first detective agency. Warne wasn’t just another pretty face; she was Kate Warne and she was soon to become the world’s first woman P.I.
Though Pinkerton gushed about Warne’s good looks and graceful vivacity, what really impressed him was her sense of purpose. She was looking for a job, she told him, and he should hire her. “She could go and worm out secrets in many places which it was impossible for male detectives to gain access,” Pinkerton wrote years later. “She had evidently given the matter much study.” Pinkerton agreed, and a legend was born.
Warne was about 23 when she came to Pinkerton’s office and she had a knack for acting and undercover work. She soon proved her worth to Pinkerton, befriending the wife of a man who had stolen thousands of dollars from a railroad company and helping find the hidden cash. Warne’s most famous case was helping evade an assassination conspiracy against Abraham Lincoln.
Warne was about 23 when she came to Pinkerton’s office and she had a knack for acting and undercover work. She soon proved her worth to Pinkerton, befriending the wife of a man who had stolen thousands of dollars from a railroad company and helping find the hidden cash. Warne’s most famous case was helping evade an assassination conspiracy against Abraham Lincoln, who was on a whistle-stop tour from Springfield, Ill., to Washington, D.C. ahead of his inauguration, was the target of an assassination plot by a group of Southern conspirators who hated his abolitionism.
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