The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-08-31
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PoTTsvILLE, August 2S.-Long before
ten o'clock this morning the Court House
here was crowded to its utmost capacity
by persons curious to see how the con-
victed Mollie Maguires would take the
sentence of death, which was to be passed
upon them to-day. A very large part of
the assemblage was composed of women.
AS soon as the Judges appeared on the
bench their faces and manner gave evil
dence of the pain which the performance
of the awful duty imposed upon them
gave, The three Law judges and two
Associates all occupied places on the
bench After some routine business had
been gone through with, Judge Green an
nounced that the Court, after careful con-
sideration, had concluded to overrule the
motion in arrest Of judgment and for a
new trial in the case of the Common
wealth VS.. Thomas Munley, charged with
the murder of Thomas Sanger. Judge
Pershing announced the same disposition
Of like rule in the case of the Common
wealth VS. James Carroll, James Boyle,
James Roarty and Hugh Mcclellan, con-
victed of murder of Police Officer Yost at
Tamaqua. The five prisoners were then
brought into Court, guarded by force of
police, and, as soon as they had taken
their seats and had the handouts taken
off, District Attorney Kearcher asked the |
Court forjudgment on the verdicts against |
the five men.
THE SENTENCE OF DEATH.
The five doomed Mollies were directed |
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receive the sentence of the law. The
men appeared pale and haggard, but they |
still seemed masters of enough courage to |
stand and hear without quacking Judge |
Green, who had presided at the trial of |
Thomas Munley, first proceeded to pass
sentence upon him. The voice of the |
Judge was shaken by the emotion which |
the scene and his part in it called forth |
and the solemn words he spoke affected |
more than one of the women who heard
them to tears. In fact, the prisoner ad-
dressed seemed to control his feelings
better than any one present. Judge
Green read his sentence.
Before pronounCing the dread words of
the Judge called upon the
prisoner to say whether he had anything
to show why the sentence ofdeath should
not be passed npon him.
A TERRIBLE SCENE.
The poor fellow then broke down, and.
amidst tears and heartrending sObs, de-
clared his entire innocence of the crime
of which he was convicted, and that his
life had been sworn away by periurers.
He asked the Court to fix the day for his
execution as soon as possible. The five
Judges then rose to their feet, and, amid
4 silence only broken by sobs, these SOL
emn words were pronounced,
Thomas Munley, the sentence of the
Court is that you, the said Thomas Nun
ey, the prisoner at the bar be taken
rom hence to the Jail of the tounty from
whence you came, and from thence to
he place of execution, and that you be
here hanged by the neck until you are
lead, and may God in his infinite com.
passion have mercy on your soul.
Judge Pershing now proceeded to pass
sentence on Carroll, Roarty, Boyle and
Mcclellan, first addressing to them we'll
chosen words of advice and closing as
follows:
LAWS CANNOT BE TRAMPLED ON.
The evidence disclosed the startling
act that in the murder of Benjamin +.
Y lost you acted as the instruments of an
organization, bound by oath to secrech,
which, through its budymasters, issues
is commands to assassinate innocent and
citizens, and that these
nurderous orders are willingly obeyed
)y its members. Christian civilization is
jhamed by the existence of such band
If organized assassins. The IAany atrCC-
GUS crimes which it has been shown had
heir origin i'll yourlsecret councils will
;ause your society to be regarded with
horror for long years to come. Isincerely
nope that your awful position to- day will
gave the effect of braking up forever this
and that your punishment
will have the effect of teaching your
in crime that laws, human
md divine, cannot alweys be trampled
IN and the guilty escape.
The Judge then called upon each of the
prisoners to say anything they had to say
Why sentence should not be passed on
hem. Each of the prisol ers, i'll dog
red manner, declared his innocence, and .
he sentence of death was passed upon
zach. The doors of the Court House
we're then placed in charged OF officers,
md the prisoners, after taking an eager
ook at the last crowd of faces they will
likely ever see, e,were handeufed together
ND taken back to the Jail to wait the
ime OF their execution. In leaving the
jourt room Boyle, one of the convicts,
allied out, with sad voice, "Good-by
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AN APPEAL.
The cases of these men will, no doubt
)e taken TO the Supreme Court, and can