The New York herald., 1874-11-09
THE MOLLY MAGUIREs.
The Lawlessness in Pennsylvania-Brig-
ands Infesting City and Country
Cruel Murders and Robbertcs- Ku-
klux Outrages.

klux Outrages.
HAzELrox, November 7, 1874.
Although tnls. the Upper Lchigh region, has
been comparatively free from outlawry since the
assassination oi Chief OF Police simon H. Ciansea
by Frederick Lapp month or so since. In this city,
other districts OF Luzerne county. In which Hazel
ton Is situated. have recently become notorious
by the enactment OF dreadful deeds OF murder and
plunder The class OF niggards who conduct
their terribly ilicit profession in the adjacent
county OF Schuylkil, penetrating to this
region in large body. have lett trail
IN various directions. The brutal butchery
OF capt John Riley by the hend incarnate
molly Maguire," and Andrew Lenahan, In the
main street OF Wikesbarre and the riot started
In another part Of that city, in which several per.
sons were seriously Injured, were published at the
time OF :heir occurrence but there are other more
important criminal events that have never
reached the outside world and which propose to
furnish TO illustrate the extent aud feartuIness or
the prevailing criminaltty.
At the mining town OF Plymouth, below Wilkes.
barre, on the line OF the Lackawanna and Blooms.
burg division OF the Delaware, Lackawanna ana
Western Railroad, attempts were made, a few
weeks ago, upon the lives OF a mine boss and
foreman OF colliery No. OF the Wilkesbarre Coal
and Iron Company by member OF the
organized outlaw brotherhood, wno were driven
or but not until one OF the assailed
was wounded Shortly subsequent to the above
John Dunleavy was found dead IN the streets oi
the town, the body being irightfully mutilated.
The criminals In both cases were allowed to es
cape. The adjoining town OF Kingston has wiz
messed numerous ku Klux outrages, and tho
citizens are naturally alarmed their frequency,
particularly as the perpetrators are allowed to so
undetected and unpunisncd In the city OF ScranS
ton considerable lawlessness exists. Persons are
murderously attacked IN the very heart OF the
municipality and, alter being plundered, are
lett to die in the streets. Runlans openly
have succeeded In their designs Tne most recent
Garrett Walsh on Miss Eliza Krot, and hair dozen
desperadoes upon an unknown young woman in
Lackawanna avenue. After q desperate resistance
all these 0utragers were arrested.
THE BRIGANDS
roam the streets almost unchecked, ana indulge
In the most riotous DEMONSTRATORS The hOnsea
OF John Fehrenhold and Jonn Thorn, on Pennsyl-
Great stones were used In the work OF des,ruciion
while shower OF bullets were poured INTO the
dwellings. Mr Thorn received painful II not serL
Gus, wounds. EX-Ctty Trea surer o. 'Donohue Joseph
PARRY Messrs. Coar, Williams and others nave
undergone painful cruelties az the hands OF tue
the inspectors OF the election In the Third dis
trics. Twelfth ward, Scranton, while returning
home from the polls, was fatally shot by some road
agents, aud reports reach here OF the committal
OF similar acts elsewhere on the same night.
tnrnal hours and disappear 70 their secret head
quarters upon the approach OF daylight. A clew 10
never obtained to the Whereabouts OF those who
make these midnighs assaults. In the border.
ing towns OF Dunmore. Olyphant Pine Brook,
Hyde Park and Bellevue lawlessness and
incendiarsin are quite prevalent since the strike
at Pine BROOK The diabolIsm has augmented con.
siderably. Tne strike was occasloned py the
Lacxawanna coal and Iron company reducing the
wages OF the operatives about twenty seven cents
per day and stipulating that tue loading OF six
cars, instead ol i've, should constitute q days
at the Farlawn coery. As both operators and
golfers are equally determined to hola the post
VIII be adjusted. The P1ue Brook Drigands usually
inaugurate riot on the SABBATH dav. and make
onsaughts upon all innocent ana inoffensive citt-
zens. At the last outbreak jacob Hetzel and Con.
rad Bebblea were badly injured. AT the same
Dery. however, being added to the crime.
| AT Olypnant, as elsewhere IN the northern coal
is exmbited by the law breakers and others
toward the Welsh miners, ana at every oppor-
tack. MANY OF them have already sunered physl.
cally ana otherwise and they live IN dali, dread
DAVID James Welsh mne aI al ee
GRASSY Island mines, IS the latest victim OF the
Molly Magu.res vengeance !! R appears to be ths
terrible conflict between the natonallties may
break out any time should the least provocaton
be made by either OF the races working in the
collieries; and it Is Also asserted that none
OF the outbreaks would occur were it not
1or the influence exercised in tho different
districts by the desperate men belonging to
the Ku KuX organization. Last week Tony
nre tue town OF Dunmorc. Fortunately the
flames tnat he kinded were discovereo IN timc to
tured and treated to summary punishment. rms
not only stopped, temporarily, all similar law
breaking, but checked what might have been 4
great and terrible upriS ng of the dangerous
classes that niest that section OF the coal country
On sunday an attempt was made 10 burn tho
before any damage was done and the supposed In
cendiary arrested and imprisoned Since
THE REIGN Of TERROR
was increased 20 the present Alarming degree,
! the representative press has dwet ueon the sub
been threatened by the me bs Ior the course they
I have adopted rne annexed article is from the
Pottsy!lle Josrma'Are ,a IA, % the Gays OF te Moll!
the Four Barrel Hotel coming upon us againf
1t seems ike II. Such carnival OF crime as has
ragged in SchuylKi county since Farrel's pusli.
is enough 70 create y lively apprehension.
human lie in THIS region; the murderers
DO as they please. and one Judging only
to think that in this community IL was a greater
crime to carry 500 III ones pocket than to take
human life. This IS too evidently the opinion OF
the lawleSs Characters VINO commit the murders
and r0bDeries which have given TINS region an un.
pleasant notoriety: II you are caught alone with
$100 III your pocket you are shot without time or
trial. II you are caught ia the act OF killing man
you are fed and lodged at the expense OF the state
amount OF influence your friends can bring to
bear on tne par ionlng power. Let US be thank
Iul III ledsI tudL tuc ueW CONSTITUTION mas SO
hedged In the Executive cemency that It
Is lar less liable to abuse than was the
case before It's adoption. But this mistaken kind
to CRIMINALS is the bitterest cruelty their
innocent victims. II IS better that one guilty per.
son should be punished than that hundi ed inno-
cent ones should suffer. At any rate, we have
tried The Kindness policy long enough to know
that 1t will not meet the Let go back to our
spelling book. and learn from them the apologize
or the ola man. who. when he could not dislodgo
a bog from MS apple tree by fnging grass at him,
changed his TACTICS and Knocked him out
wItn stone. The murder OF Chief Burgess MAJOR
FURNISHES good subject TO begin with. Daniel
DOugherty, taken red-nanded, mashed beyond
all dispute rs to identity by the bullet OF his vic
tim, Is ostcnslbY confined to "A sick beu, from
which IL Is dangerous I'm more senses tnan one)
for any but his friends to remove him. our repre-
sen iative and Df. Carpenter visited the man and
0und that he was only shammng, that MS sickness
would only last until he had good chance TO get
away and no longer. Now, why does not
the District Attorney get out warrant
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