Wanted Notice

Original Wanted Notice from Pinkerton's National Detective Agency, advising a "Warning / You are respectfully requested to be on the lookout for a swindler who may use the name of J. C. Bradshaw...claims to have been a cowboy, also salesman and auditor...," posted on September 27, 1921.

From the collection of Police Chief Michael Webb (1950-2009). Webb joined the Vinita Park, Missouri police force in 1974 and served until his death in 2009, during which time he purchased crime artifacts from relatives of criminals and law officers. Boasting more than 8,000 wanted posters, pieces of Webb’s collection have been featured in film and displayed at the National Crime and Punishment Museum in Washington.

Measuring approximately 8 x 10.5, this notice exhibits the expected age wear, toning, folds, wrinkling, rippling and some tearing to the left edge.