Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-05-23

0NHAMh0 W. " VI
The Murdered Mana Long search
! FtnRIly ReWRrded-A Desperate
In CustOdy.
CARBoNDALE, PA, May 15.-
Patrick Kelley, miner, formerly
emplOyedin the collieries at Moosic,
has been arrested at Mahanoy City,
Schuylkill county, and brought
back to this county to answer for
the killing of James ConroY, an
other miner, in Moosic, in January,
1874. Conroy was shot by Kelley,
who fed. A man named John
Jennings, who was the bosom COM
paniOn of Conroy, at once took an
oath that he would follow Kelley
until he captured him and handed
him over to justice. In company
with Owen McCue, a brother-in-
law of the murdered man, he
started in pursuit of Kelley. He
had no clew to follow, but made a
search Of all the coal fields of this
State, occasionally hearing of Kel-
ley, but never being able to meet
him. McCue got discouraged in a
short time and returned home.
Jennings continued, however, to
hunt for the murderer of his friend,
and visited the coal regions of Ohio
and Virginia. In the latter region
he learned that a man answering
Kelley's description had been a
short time in the mines there, but
had gone, with three others, to work
! in the silver mines of Nevada. On
THIS SLIGHT CLEw
Jennings started for the silver dig.
gings. For months he traversed
the mines of the great West, en-,
during much hardship and suffer
ing, but could get no trace of the
murderer. Finally, broken in health
and almost pennilesS, having spent
the earnings of years in his fruit.
less search, Jennings returned home
about q month ago. Two weeks
ago, while in the lower part of thii
valley, he was told by a relative o.
Kelley's that he "might as wei
give up the idea Of finding Pat, al
he was safe in the old country.
working in a mine in England"
Jennings replied that he nigh
be beyond the reach of the law, but
thatif he was in England he (Jen
ningS) would find him, and
AyENGE WITH HIS OWN HAND
the murder of his friend. He ac
cordingly was making arrange
ments to go to England, Las
week he went to Mahoney City tt
see come friends, While there hi
was told by an old woman named
Hughes that she believed the mai
he was looking for was working II
o mine at Mahoney. She described
| the person to whom she referred
and the description exactly an
swered that of Kelley, Jenning
resolved to get an officer and gisi
the mine. He accordingly went t
Shenandoah and secured the ser
| vices Of Constable Maley. Return
ing to Mahaney they awaited tn
changing of the hour in the mine
When the men came from the min
in which the suspected man wa
working Jennings
DETECTED THE MAN
he had so long sought in the yer
first gang, despite his grimy faoC
Officer Maley stepped up to Kelle,
and when the latter saw Jenning
he attempted to run, but was stol
ped by the officer He resisted de
perately, but was secured and loci
ed up In Shenandoah. Kelley W,
recognized by the officer as one
the gang he had arrested some tin
before for some outrage at Robil
. sons patch. When arrested he ho
! in his possession three seven-shoo
ing reyolyers, every barrel loaded
billy and a slung-shot and q mu
derous looking dirk, the blade
which bore suspicious lookir
> stains. He was held at Shenandos
until the arrival of authorities fro
the county. Thus, by the faithful
= ness Of Jennings to the memo
= Of his murdered friend, one of 81