The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-11-29

The Court opened to a"g0od house." as the
play -goers have it, on Wednesday morning
WIN, BURRELL sworn:
Am about II years at La Sale, and was 10
years mining boss there; heard Of the Mol
ly Magures some years ago. That society
was said to be generally Irish. The Irish
complained ofmc for showing partiality One
time | sent man TO work whom they didnOt
like, and they threatened to strike. There
was trouble there once between nationalities.
Some time ago. | can not tell the year, the
shaft buildings were burned down. 1t was
between one and two in the morning, when
heard firearms | went out of my house 10 see
what was the matter; lived about $50 yards
from the shaft. Shots were fired so thick as
as they are in battle. There were between
200 and 300 men there. got down in a val
ley out of the way Of the shots. Joseph John
son was with me- | have received threaten
ing letters, dozen or more. The letters eau
toned me to look out for myself when wen,
out There were on them pictures Of men
with pistols, and Of cOilins in some | found
them about my door, and some came through
the post office These miners would not let
MS always employ whom we pleased.
The 'C0URT-Wcrc there any signatures
attached to these letters? Ans.--No
CroSsEra0tined--IIave mined in West Va.
Never saw any trouble there between bodies
of men and bosses. There may have been in
diyidual troubles Don't think that it is a
general thing that miners at La Sale go to
saloons when lhcy ale paid off; some do.
Never had any trouble myself Don't belong
to the Miners Union here; did in England,
The object of such unions is to do what we
thought right. The demands that we object
ed to were made through the Miners Union.
This fire was in 1862 or 1868. Think the OBJ
tject of the crowd there that night was to set
Z fire to the shaft. Don't know why they did
IT. That mine was not worked next day. New
cr tried to find out who did it; it was not be
lieved that the fire was an accident; it was
believed it was set by incendaries. Have
heard of the Molly Mcguire society. Am not
related to Oughton or Rutidge, Don't know
personally about the Molly Mcguire society.
Heard the miners call one another Molly Ma
guircs. A company of soldiers came there
two days after the burning Before the fire,
complaint was made of our hiring English
and Scotch. The miners had not worked for
some days before the fire. The soldiers did
not come there to protect the BelgianS from
the Irish, English and Scotch; they came
there to protect the property OF the people.
No Belgans were there then. The soldiers
remained four weeks; they came from Spring
field.
JC,,. PURDY sworn:
Am years in La Sale; am a coal miner
at La Sale diggings; know defendant, also
Murphy little. Heard CT Molly NIaguires
can't say how often; so often | cant remem-
Der. Have heard of The-boys with.iead-i in
theirsticks; don't know whether they are the
same
"Wh) spoke to you about men raising
money!" Ans.-Tcu or dozen of us men in
the mines; some men came along, and one OF
them was asked "what he was here for?' He
said, 1--WE are trying to raise money to hang
Oughton.' This was two weeks ago yester
lay. Have no sympathy with either Ough.
ton or Murphy. Don't belong to either par
~ Have heard good deal of talk that there
are two hostile parties among the miners;
think there are hostile parties Think there
j. an Iaish party there hostile to the English
Have seen them walking; they were called
the MollyS. Two or three societies wer,
walking on St. Patricks day. 4 man named
Pat Quiglcy called them Mollys. Heard him
"a day or two afterwards using strong Ian
ruage to his brother for being with them: he
was angry.
osy-Eramis.c9-IEe Thos. Carrigan
say about raising money to hang Oughton
Carrigan said if he had had his own way there
would be no need of hanging Oughton-
would have stopped all this troubles If he
had had his own way, Oughton would have
been lynChed. Richard Slater also spoke OF
money to hang Oughton. | gave a couple of
dollars to defend Oughton; others gave some
thing Don't know that all the Englishmcn
gave or were taxed to defend Oughton.
GEO. GALLOWAY sworn:
Live ) miles from Princeton; used to live
at La Sale; am q coal miner; was slightly
acquainted with Murphy Had a difficulty
with him once. was trying To get some men
20 60 to work; he was trying TO keep out on
strike He SAID was duck of Jordan's
/ told him did not care for Tom Jordan or
any one else He struck at me twice and hi
me once. | left on account of the disturbance;
did not think myself safe in the town. Have
heard the Irish threaten what they'd do Ia
Englishmen. They called Us English SIS OF
Of BIS; that's why ] left
Cross ErdEiaed-Nurphy and had work
Ell together in Carbon shaft. He murphy
and three or four other men were on a strike
] met them at Gascogne's saloon, and want