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Как пытались украсть тело Авраама Линкольна

Известен кому-то этот факт или нет, но американская Secret Service была создана Президентом Авраамом Ли́нкольном. Это сейчас эта Служба занимается охраной самых “больших” американских начальников и Президентов США. А первоначально, Secret Service занималась… фальшивомонетчиками.

И, кстати, первое тело, охраной которого занялась Секретная Служба США, было, как раз, тело — Авраама Ли́нкольна.

Правда, это было мертвое тело Великого Президента.

Lincoln

Вообще-то, эта история могла бы стать хорошим сюжетом для комедии, а не для трагедии.

Comic caper. The answer to that question was a gang of Chicago Irish counterfeiters led by a small-time crime boss named Big Jim Kennally. Early in 1876, Kennally’s best engraver of counterfeit plates, Benjamin Boyd, had been sentenced to 10 years in the state penitentiary in Joliet, Ill. To pressure the governor to release his man, Kennally recruited two members of his gang, Terence Mullen, a saloonkeeper, and Jack Hughes, a sometime manufacturer of counterfeit nickels, to kidnap Lincoln’s body. For ransom, they would demand $200,000 in cash and a full pardon for Boyd.

Given the cemetery’s minimalist approach to security, the gang actually had a better-than-even chance of pulling off the heist. But they made a significant mistake. Neither Mullen nor Hughes had any body-snatching experience, so they invited a man named Lewis Swegles, who they thought was a grave robber, to help them. They couldn’t have made a worse choice, because Swegles was a paid informant—a “roper”—of the Secret Service.

История — полностью.

К сожалению, история на английском.

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