The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-05-10
AN ORDER OF ASSASSlNS.
A FULL EXPOSURE or THE MDLLi
MhgUIRES AND BUChsHOfS'

MHGUIRES a Nd Dtt
. u.....,x. xxbo Joined the Ordcr mn"
r...ned its Secrcir-Tbe signs IN"
xxord.-How Murders are r..,
E.ec.ted-Names of Promi"e"'
Yorrsvurr. Pa, May Sat the opening
n, the Court this morning, Detective James
McparIan, atlas Mckenna, was aho"eu W p'o-
ceed with his exposure oil the secret ore'i.A'-
sion OF Molly Maguires far as 1t related to the
,,a.oners at the bar. McParlan related how be
hecame connected with the Ancient Order OF
uiberuians. more commonly known In the coa
~as,ons as the Molly Maguires, on April H. 1875
After his initiation he was ordered to take ON
lis hat and kneel down An Obligation caheu
" the test" was then read To him, the suosthoe
OF which was that he should obey tue omcets Oh
the society IN all things lawful but not osher-
wise N he heard friends or members lily spoken
OF he wa, to report the fact. aud he was TO Keep
everything pertaining to the order secret' lie
Kissed the test and arose, which ended the cere-
mopy lie was initiated by one Michael Liwler,
who Ia among those arrested on Saturday. in the
presenco OF Thomas Curly. Thos. McNulty, Ed
ward Ferguson and Peter Monaghan. None but
Irish Catholics could be admitted. The pass
word, signs aud grips were called "the goods"
aud wore obtained by the members from the
body master, or division master, who was the
chief oilicer Of a division or lodge. McParlan OBJ
taIned them from County Delegate Bernard
Dolan, who obtained them from the State dele
gate at Pittsburgh, who, in turn, got them from
the President OF the National Board, head
quarters at New York city, who, in turn, re-
seiyed them from the Board Of Erin, which
sometimes meets In Ensland. sometim mes In scot
lana, aud sometimes In Ireland: 1t was trans.
ported across the water through a steward OF
one Of the Inman line Of steamers. The National
Board Is composed OF four: the national presi-
dent, who Is also president of the state OF New
York, u national delegate, secretary and treas
urer. -
Each division must pay 50 quarterly for
"the goods" or password aud signs, and they
are changed quarterly The order in America
ceeding that In which they were used in the old
country. some OF the signs were explained and
sensation. Besides this they mad the passwords,
some OF which were as follows: II member
wanted TO tes' the memeey,n,p o, Mr anotnsT ne
of the Iipperrry election ; L think Eng nd broke
her Constitution by Mitchell,s rejsctionT The
answer would oe, 4" But didn't OConnell resign
hts oath aud seatf Yes, and by aaiiatina the
em sncipaton" his Is a sample. Toen they
had tue quarrelling toast. II two members
shosid happen to quarrel and ons should give
the question pertaining TO TINS toast, the quar-
III Iii nus Ss eInslied from the "rdsr This Was
"Keep your temper cool;" answer, 4" will not
raise it TO friend" Another was, You seem
TO be vexedf" and the answer, " Not at you,
sir" In the winter time they bad an addition /
toast to facilitate recognition at night; These
harvest" The body or division masters we're In
possession Of a distinctive toast to prevent
rs such. Ibis was, Here is that every IIisn.
man may stand to his cause, and subdue the
Ths soSistva 40 far as The coal region. ve,s
concerned, while ostensibly working under the
constitution and bylaws Of the Ancient Order
OF Hibernians, aud under a charter from tn at
body, which in Pennsylvania Is a chartered cor
poration. was, through the influence OF some
ten = dozen men, who designed to use II for
their own special purposes, perverted ftom its
original purpose, and became what was VI
shots, the latter beng the name gwen them in
Luce ne aud Carbon counties. They we're here
banded together for murderuus purposes, and
the IN amer In which soiue of those murders
were coBoooted and planned oy them Is Truly
appalling.
TIE NuRDERoUs PRACTICES OF THE ORDER.
The defence streDuously objected 20 the W IT.
ness giving the particulars OF thsir practices,
but the court rulel In favor of the prose cation.
McParlan then proceeded to relate the various
characters he assumed u gain nIs object Of dts
covering who an what the Molly MaRulIcs were,
and YET ware II suspicion. by sha y practice !
lie obtained few OF their sec cts and tie
names Of over Il prominent members, rrevi rs
60 his joining the urder on the l4th ~ Apr 10 ..
lie told some OF them that lie had BELONGED to
tue Ancient Order d long time ago aud on being
asked why he did not rejoin, he replied that he
had belonged In Buffalo, aud having committed
flns depredations there, lie was afraid to send
for a card. Upon tnat, and bis giving certain
excuses Tor being aOle to live without work, he
was admitted without the usual vouchers. He
carOused with them, attended their murderous
GOuCldNeS, aud gained tnelr commence IulIN.
Ihe usual practice was that II me!nber felt
Himself iggrieyed by any outsider aud desired
revenge, lie laid his grievances before the
BODY master OF his dysiJ u, who then took GER
tain Trustworthy members into council-never
the whole division, because they could not
Always be depended upon IN all cases. II there
were any among the trasted ones VINO were en-
tTely unknown TO the Intended victim, Two or
more weie chosen to do tho deed. II none sucn
unknown OLcs could be found among the most
trusted ones. the body master made application
10 the body master OF a distant division for a.
AA. Nuf - lIaF
fepeated, and the men were assured that II the
division winch fufDisnsd the men ever wanted "a
must e ciprocate. Thus the Su Unit Hill Diyis-
On Of Carb.n county furnlsned McGehan aud
Boyle 70 XIII Policeman Ho-t of Tamaqna, with
lhe etpulalon tnat some DIVISION oi Scnuylkiil
ttunty must iuTnl sh the men 10 Kill Mining Boss
sohn +; Jones oi / 'nsiotd Doyle ana h ely
uid the latter deed aud are noy under sentence
vi death u Malch Chunk for II.
PROMINENT MEMBERS.
The sensation Of the day was created when the
witness gave tue names OF nuulUer Of pIoml-
ient members, among whom IL one Patri
Coliin-, nov Commissioner OF SchuylklI
eount'. MI. Y !wen, for the prosecution, male
tstiffnz repy 70 an objection OF the defence,
In which he declared that It would be ROY ed
that Collin. haruored uIrderers, and when the
Ysisones at tue bar we're lodged in jail, he (Col-
lns), IN the cdf-city OF Con missioner, pupOIut-
81 iaconiederate TO take charge OF the prison,
with the Keys to the cells Of the PRISONERS In
his hands that the order, led by ten or dozen
men, are banded toeether to XIII innocent peo-
pie, aud that II was intended to MAKE the whole
9rdeT 50 odious, that TO ue member OF It At all
would be taken as prtma tacte evidence OF guilt
defective McParan continued by giving all
soCount OF various conventions Of the order he
attended lie was about to show how the muir
ger, OF fost at 1amsqua, Conner James
andoah' of uren and Sanger at Raven Run,
thu Johh L. Jones were cpnoocted, but the de
.SnIs ihlerposei an objection Of iTr.eyaDcy,
anu ln9 Prosecution passed the subject for
nme lhls much, however, he was able to say
nsnat ~ convention which he attended a.
tsMaqu 1 rYaI claims were put In by members
"a "a W. edll OF killing Conner James, and after
auJ1uva.i1h - The convention tha man who
mas uul llsed the real murderer was gwen
var tlJ olt of the treasury Of the associa-
a'yn' Au} III enOef who exposed the criminality
Ah u.htT heuuer IA any manner whatever
ho Yer 'hlh 70 be expelled fom tue society and
seche cuhllgn punishment. ! he order In the
"a Ia ies ,'Na was once or twice OstraclZed by the
uueheral Oider Oh account OF its bad cnaracter
~ ~ ~ hhuw some Of the prisoners by meet
r1s tn"m lC conventions, aud Mcclellan by ex-
N""-'hE slRn' aud pass words.
7hE CAUSES OF AssAssINArIoKs
rue cause Of the killing Of Jones was that he
W. Huspected Ot using ais influence against
Ipe"ah getting worK under the Lohigh and
ruko,barTS Coal Company YOst was mur.
uel'u be'ause he once arrested Duhy and er-
lH MAJ. all lad