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Excerpt from Three Years With Counterfeiters, Smuglers and Boodle Carriers: With Accurate Portraits of Prominent Members of the Detective Force in the Secret Service To aid in instructing the people regarding the wily arts of these base imitators, and to show up some of the worst of these wicked criminals so far as the limits of a single volume of veritable record is adequate to effect it, in this direction - has been the aim in the preparation of these pages; in the performance of which undertaking, the author has had no occasion to draw upon imagination for the contents of this work. Truth is stranger than fiction, indeed! The thrilling narratives which fol low, are but faithful transcripts of the omcial accounts set down at length in the records of the Secret Service Department; and the names, the dates, and the facts set forth are real in all their romantic, astounding, and pe culiarly interesting details. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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