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[Typed Letter Signed] Wiggin & Wood Detective Agency of Boston Announces its New Branch in Providence, Rhode Island.
Boston: 1885. [2 pp.] Bifolium, rectos only. Illus. with engraved letterhead. 8.5 x 10.5 inches. Very good, folded, faint browning along edges. Item #44089
The Wood Detective Agency, founded in 1879 by retired Boston policeman James Rodney Wood (1838-1914), was the first of its kind in New England, and shortly thereafter became Wiggin & Wood, with the addition of Edmund Doe Wiggin (1846-1912). Both served as special officers in the Boston Police department until 1879. This bulletin announces the opening of a new branch in Rhode Island, lists the terms of employment -operatives, both male and female, cost $8 per day plus expenses- and highlight some of the agency's recent high profile cases: attempted poisoning of a wife, larceny of $20,000, murder of a policeman, and murder of a husband. Dated January 1, 1885, printed in red type and signed in black "Wiggin and Wood". The firm's records, through the mid 20th century, are at Harvard Law. A rare remnant.
Price: $250.00