The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-10-28
Buying Up an Oath-BOund,
MurderOus Gang.
The Cash Down Paid for the
Votes of the ItsMO!lie
.s '- Maguires !"
Bow Pennsylvania was Car
,....-., rled.
The Disgrace of American
...l. Politics.
Correspondence Philadelphia Times.


This town and county have been
thrown into great state OF excitement
by the disclosures made by John j.
Slattery, on the witness stand, in Mauch
Chunk Yesterday, during the progress OF
the trial of Yellow Jack Donahoe, for the
murder of Morgan Powell. Powell was
a mining boss, employed by the Lehigh
Navigation and Coal Company. He was
shot in the streets of Summit Hill, Car
bon county, after dark on the I'd OF De-
cember, 1871. By the confessions OF
Charles Mulhearn and John j. Slattery,
the common wealth 7iS enabled to estab-
lish beyond a doubt the following state
of facts: Alexander Campbell, now un.
der sentence of death for the murder Of
John II. Jones, was, in 1871, employed
under the supervision OF Powell, and de-
sired to obtain from the boss certain
piece Of work which Powell told him he
was unfit for and could not have. At
that time Thomas Fisher was county
delegate Of Carbon county and James
McKenna was body-master at Summit
Hill.
Campbell called on Body-master Nc
Kenna to furnish men to avenge the in
suit he charged Powell with. Mckenna
consulted County Delegate Fisher, and
through his influence three men from the
Tuscarora division, IT. Schuylkill county,
were obtained to do the job. These three
men fellow Jack Donahoe, Mat Dona-
hoe and Charles Mulhearn--went TO
Summit Hill and, guided by Fisher and
McKenna, were enabled to shoot down
their victim and escape. All six men
have been arrested, and all except Null
hearn have been jointly indicted in Car
bon county, where the case was called
on Thursday of last week, when the pris
oners claimed their privilege of separate
trials, and the Commonwealth elected to
try Yellow Jack Donshoe first. A jury
was easily obtained, and the Common
wealth has made rapid progress in de-
veloping the facts as above stated.
.... STARTLING REVELATIONS.
Two very startling revelations have
thus far been made; first, that in order
to pay the three men who came over
from Tuscarora to kill Powell, an assess
ment of one dollar apiece was made on
more than one hundred members Of the
Summit,7Hill Division of the Mollie
Magures, Only thirty dollars OF this
assessment however, was ever collected
and paid over. But the most startling
revelation was when Slattery, under an
offer to show the general criminal char
acter of the Mollie Mcguire organization
among other things gave his knowledge
of the bargain made last fall whereby
the vote of that organization was So
cured for Hartranft. Slatterys manner
of testiivlng showed an earnest sincerity
to tell the truth. HIS story of the ar
rangement to secure the Mollie vote for
Hartranft last fall is us follows:
POLITICIANS BARGAINING WITH MUIR
DERERs.
Pending the campaign last year Stat
terry and John kehOe, county delegate
of Schuylkiu County, met General j. X.
Siglried, u prominent Republican poll
tician, holding the lucrative appointment
OF boiler Inspector of this county, and
James Ryan, ex.Judge OF the Court of
Commoh Pleas of this county, who was
defeated for reelection byJudgePershing,
aud they bargained with kehoe and
Slattery to pay them 81 900 apiece for
procuring the votes of the Mollie
Maguires tor Hartranft. After the bar
gain was concluded Sisfried said he
would have to go to Harrisburg to get
the money, and if he succeeded he would
communicate with Kehoe and Slattery by
q cypher telegram, agreed upon. The
day following Slattery received q dis
patch from Sigfried, which meant that
the money had been raised and that Stat
terry and Kehoe should come to Sigfried's
house in Pottsville the next day. They
came and there, in the presence of Judge
Ryou and ID. Z. Hening, Esq, promi-
nent Republican and lawyer OF this bar,
Sigtried paid over to Slattery and kehoe
81 900 piece. At the same time an sd
ditionsl stipulation was made that if one
half of the Republican county ticket was
elected an additional $1,000 should be
paid to kehoe and Slattery.
MORE MONEY FOR THE MoLLIES.
Slattery further testified that John NJ.
Delany, Governor Hartrsnft's messenger !
in the Executive Department, carried a
fund OF money 10 Luzerne county for the
purpose of securing the Mollies' vote of
that county for Hsrtrsnft, and that q
much larger fund was sent to Pittsburgh, |
the headquarters of the A. o. H. in Penn
,vlvania, to be used for the same purpose.
He said that in the bargain made with |
Sigfried, Ryon and Hening last fall, no
stipulation was made in regard |
10 psrdons for the Imprisoned Mollies, but
hat prominent Republicans promised to
use their influence with Governor Hart
-anft for that purpose after the election,
md kehoe and Siattery used this
promise with the individual members
If the Mollie organization and with those
who sympathized with them to induce
hem to vote for Hartranft. As mat
er of fact, shortly after the election the