The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1876-07-01

organized in january was py AleoA Iu,hP1,Vti,. P,t,
| barney Doan, the county delegate, and ne hnu
him put out, and nut Jack KehOe IN MS place
when the thing was made up 10 Kill fost;
RoaIty was offered ten dollars to Kill Yost and
afterwnrtl II was made up by ChmpOell 70 senu
cSTbge S9gnSy wqTe mGn sab 10 @ fpSI Jones at The
meeting on the 25th OF August IN Carrolrs.
yellow Jack, 'Charles Donnely. afeiiow from
Shenandoah and Roaity were there Mchennh
was there i, INK and ne gave them .' Dolly,,,s
Bray ~ he was Bnaklng hands WI. Jnem ull;
and Aleck Canpgeh aloweu ne was a III iVv, ,Sn
for getting 80 full the body masters got tine
goods from Jack Kehoe, aud he charged tniee
To- 10 the que, lon OF How many divisions are
there in Schuylkill county y the deiehse oo-
Jected. =, ,,
following questions that there was such an Or
ganz ition Us the Molhe Mag Ires,"
June 4--To the first question OF General At
40 the best OF INV Enowiedge there are from
twenty to twenty fve D0hy-masters IN Schuyl-
kill county, and the majority OF them keep greg
Kenna, ana James Roartv were at the meeting
at Tamaqua on the 2sth OF August, 1875 Patsy
ing u the time IL wasn't Richard Condon, but
he was there Big Peter" Burns, from the
Mountain inn was there Mike 0Bren, OF
Mahanoy aud Jnpk Kehoe, of Girnrdvllle. were
there Chris. DOnnelly was body master ana
county treasurer, and he couldn't hold two otfi.
ces and gave up the office of bOdN-masler or
don't Know that ChIis. DOnnellv told me who
was BODY master nt Mount Bah5e wns mei Q,
" witness that day aRain,t john Slnttely ,ahu
had no business In the meeting james carroll
was anything said about the murder Of
John p. Jones ~ asked Mr.. Hughes;
~ object TO It," said Mr.. Fox, and TO the wit
ness" DO not answer tnat question"
Quite an argument followed between MessIe
Fox and Hughes, and the upshot was that tho
eOurt overruled the objection, and sealed Dill
tOr the defendant.
The second chapter. Of revelations was then
continued by expOunder Kerrlgan as follows
Carroll said that Campbell tod him to look to
Mount Latfee TO see II he couldn't get two men
to kill Jones l saw Campbell that evening and
had a drink with him McKenua was there
was acting body master ut that time Camp
beil sad that, as summit Hill men Killed
Yost, Tamaqua would have TO return
the compliment BY killing Jones, but
as Tamaqua men would be known, It would be
ShenanGoah Nd J for or Friday" u'Dohneil or ior the
two men who were picked out to shoot Jesse
Major Cain and stanton were picked to DO
that job The body masters got the goods from
Jack KehOe, and he got them from the state
delegate, Captain Gallagher, OF Pittsburg
Friday" o Donnell is Jimmy, and think he
lived at Wiggan's patch Campbell SAID to send
for him, and Carroll said that at the convention
he would try and arrange matters Campbell
told me 10 use my influence, and did win Nc
Kenna.
jimmy underwent searching cross-exami-
nation, but we fail to see where ms direct testi-
mony was shaken in any one point.
james M'Parlaue was then called, and
while he was being brought from the hotel,
Captain i. Q. iliams tesllfied that the piece
from the counter IN Hugh McGeehan's saloon
The piece OF wood was then offered Sy the com
mOnwealth as evidence, and admitted.
In answer to the tirst question M'Parlane
said James M'Parlane is my iull name am
from the province OF Ulster have been iu
TINS country nine years; landed in New YORK,
where engaged in grocery store then went
10 Medina. and worked in dry-goOds store
left there, and went TO Chicago drove o team
for a While, and went on steamboat running
between Chicago and W White Haven went from
there to Michigan, and came back TO Chicago,
tina N Va
then went RS coachman for John Alston after
ward worked as private policeman and detective
for Babey q Co.; became policeman Tor the
city, and then Travelled for WINE and liquor
firm then Kept liquor store at No. 3i9 Canal
street / had second store when the Chicago
fire came 1t burned the store down / sold out
the saloon, and engaged with Allan PinkertOn,
6f PinkertOn's agency came TO the coal re-
g1on in October 1873, for the purpose OF detect
ing the Molie MaRuires;" The first know.
ledge that obtained of the MOllie Maguires'
wus at fremont L know Aleck campbell l
know that he belongs TO the Molies met
him as a member by sigus and passwords in
June, 1874, believe went II ON Mauch Chunk
t0 STORM Hill TO Thomas c. Fishers US l was
recommended to call on him by Mr.. Kirke,
county delegate Of LuzeIne, as he was county
delegate L show ed him the sign /; L was recog
nized little while alter the state sec etary OF
the Ancient order Of Hibernians or " M0llie
Magures," from PiJtsburg ]. ]. Mcguire came
in uurlng the afternoon Aleck Campbell and
troduced CampDe i stated That he had had some
trouble with the county delegate. barney Do
Ian that ne held his poelhOn as body master IN
Tamaqua although he lived in Carbon county
became acquainted with AlecK Campbell IN
June, 1874 met hun afterwaId several times
the last time met hun was during the trial Of
M. j. Doyle, in January, 1876 knew James
Carroll ana ROarty, ana McGeehan, aud knew
them as members OF this organization (the An
clent Order OF HiherniausG upon the 18th of
July, 1879. was at Campbells house, and had
a cOnv ersatlOn VITA hIm about the murder Of
Yost Campbell III the evening walked with me
from MS house to summit Hill, and we talked
about 1t he said IL was a verV clean Job, ana he
guessed they wouldn't have bothered with II
only 1t was done on tradsi on the 4th Of Au;
eust,lS75. i met him again at THmaQua; asked
him how McGeehan was, as subsequently obs
covered, III a CONVEX satlOn with Campbell, that
McGeehRn was one OF the murderers OF YOst
Campbell tod me that Mcclellan and Mulnan
couldn't get work at the summit, but that they
had got work at nscarpra. he said ne calcula-
teu 10 start MCGeenan In sa Don for the work
he did at lamaQua, and that wnat he wanued
WIS Il few good men from Schuylk XIII county to
murder Jonn r, Jones what he wanted was to
geJ NJ u hail to WORK, and Mcclellan started III
his saloon before Jones was 10 De murdered ; he
SAID schuylki,l county should send men on NC.
count OF The cean job that McGeehan did at
IamaQua in killing rOst upon the z4th Of Au.
gust, 1876, III Tamaq IA was in CarrolPs
tended bar for Carroll that forenoon, as he and
his wife were at a funeral Campbell came IN
and asked me 10 help to get the men to shoot
John p Jones he said that there was to be a
county meeting the nextuay IN lamaqua, ana
had to go TO a funeral at HazletOn, and that he
was afraid to trust Kerrigal. as ne was likely TO
ReG Il bhlu WOuiu, VI CUufbos vi tuc
18th OF August / think went to Summit I'm
10 attend The opening of Hugh McGeehaIps
saloon, but Il didn't take place. 1 weht back
again ON the 18th, ana that night stopped At
Campbell's i Campbell showed me the house OF
Jones, and said how to place the men in order
chat they might have good chance to shoot
Jones held q conversation with Campbell IN
Mauch Chunk on August 9TH after transact
ing my business with Captain Linden, my CO.
worker, we were walking down street. when
saw Campbell ana McGeenan standing on the
crossing we went 20 Armbrusters saloon, and
asked me wny didn't bring my friend l said
he was no trend OF laIne. that ne was a man
had met mp the street, haf drunk, and iuquir
ing lOl the American house Campbell Seemed
TO be satisfied, and uain that he musG get .dc-
Geehan a a,license, and when we TOOK Che rail-
road on the switchback was confronted again
by Mr.. Linden, who sat opposite lne SPOKE
louu SO lhat Mr.. Linden might hear the names
OF MCGEE ian and Campbell, and rememDer
(CampbeilJ SAID mat IL was the cleanest job ever
done, but swose at KerIIgan tor Leaning the
men astray he said he was gong 10 Luzerne
county TO raise money through lhe organization
for the prisoners defense, Hnd that he hoped
SchuVlki county would do Its duty, and tnat
II IL didnt he would mortgage his chattles for
one Thousand dollars he said that the men VINO
had Kl.eu Jones had stopped az his house the
night before the murderer, aud thai there were
slsters Of Jones VINO would swear that the men
stopped JLere. but that he could knoc& Their
testimony hiRher nor q KITE met Campbell on
the 18th OF september. 1875, at POttsvile. az
Danny Hughes. with Jerry Cane, the body
muster OF Mount Laffee lodge OF g Molhe Ma
RuIres," the division 70 winch Doyle ana Kelley
belonged; they were tnen going 10 see MessrH.
RyOr and Bartholomew TO give them some