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E-Bay again. This item may be legit. It is an alleged photo of the office building in which Detective McHenry (he of the Trickey-McHenry affair) had his offices. Judging by the photo he seems to have had an entire floor.

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I checked the "A" glossary in Knowlton (p450) and McHenry ran a "McHenry Detective Bureau" in 1897 in Buffalo, NY for two years.

At the time of the Borden murders he ran the "McHenry and Company Detective Bureau" in Providence, RI

The price is kinda high.

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Rhode Island Directory, 1890

Name:   Edwin D. McHenry
Location 1:   18 Custom House street room 14
Location 2:   house 29 Angell
Business Name:   R. I. Detective Bureau Co.
Occupation:   manager
Year:   1890, 1891
City:   Providence
State:   RI
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Name:   Edwin D. McHenry
Location 1:   26 College
Location 2:   80 Arnold
Business Name:   McHenry's Detective Bureau Co.
Occupation:   gen. supt.
Year:   1891, 1892
City:   Providence
State:   RI
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Name:   Edwin D. McHenry
Location 1:   26 College
Business Name:   Rhode Island Detective Bureau Co.
Occupation:   manager
Year:   1891, 1892
City:   Providence
State:   RI

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Rhode Island Deaths- 1630-1930

Name:   Edward J McHenry
Kin 1:   Edwin D McHenry
Kin 2:   Nellie S McHenry
Death Date:   20 May 1892
Age:   5 yrs
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Name:   John McHenry (McEnery)
Kin 1:   Edwin D McHenry
Kin 2:   Nellie S McHenry
Death Date:   19 Apr 1899
Age:   53 yrs

--This last sounds like Edwin's father. The death of their son in 1892 might have precipitated their divorce, and then his father (?) dies in 1899. Sad.

Thats a cool find, Harry! Great info, Kat, sounds like it may be the one during the whole Lizzie affair.

Here's the rest of the citation from The Knowlton Papers:

"MC HENRY, EDWIN D.: a private detective. He resided in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1889, employed as general manager of the Rhode Island Detective Bureau Company, a firm established in 1886. Renamed McHenry and Company Detective Bureau in 1891, the firm dissolved the following year. In 1892, accompanied by his wife, Nellie, he relocated to New York City. The Fall River Evening News of February 7, 1894, noted that 'Mrs. E. D. McHenry, wife of the detective who was employed by the government in the Borden case, has obtained a divorce nisi on the ground of adultery.' In Buffalo, New York by 1895, he became a partner with Frank H. McDonald in the International Detective Agency, a firm which operated for only a year. In 1897, he was proprietor of McHenry's Detective Bureau, operating two years later as McHenry's Secret Service. He was last known to have resided in Buffalo in 1899. In 1892, he was associated with the Boston Globe reporter, Henry G. Trickey, in a scandal which became known as the Trickey-McHenry affair."

"MC HENRY, NELLIE S.: wife of detective Edwin D. McHenry. She resided with her husband in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1892. On August 19th of that year she conducted an extensive inter-view with Miss Bridget Sullivan, having gained the confidence of the Bordens' former maid by posing as a relative of the family. The following year she moved with her husband to New York City and, in 1894, resided in a boarding house in Jersey City, New Jersey. The Fall River Evening News of February 7th of that year noted that 'Mrs. E. D. McHenry, wife of the detective who was employed by the government in the Borden case, has obtained a divorce nisi on the ground of adultery.' "

--In Rebello, he has the middle initial G.