The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-07-05
IN AWFUL RECORD.


of Each.
[Pottsvilie Pa.) Cor Chicago Tribune.l
To-day the hand of Justice cut short
who for years made this country unsafe
to live in. The mills of the gods have
indeed ground slowly, but as the little
crowd in the prison slowly dispersed and
the last of the six were left dangling in
| the air, there was not one that did not
shudder as he thought how exceedingly
fine the grist was ground.
These murders began twelve years
| ago. David Muir, a colliery-superin-
tendent, was killed in Foster township
He was shot ON Aug. 25, 1865, upon the
public highway, in broad daylight, within
200 yards of the colliery, where large
number of men were congregated, all of
whom must have heard the reports of the
fire arms, and many of whom must have
| been witnesses of the occurrence, though
no testimony could be elected from any
| fastening the commission of the murder
upon any suspected party. Signals were
given to the murderers from the neigh
boring hills Immediately after the occur
sence to enable them to escape.
| f. w. S. I.angdon, breaker boss,
employed at colliery near Anderson,
Carbon county, attended a public meet
ing Oh the 18th of June, 1862, and had
quarrel with some of the men. His
friends urged him to leave, and he did
SO. A few hours afterward he was found
Kehoe was suspected at the time, but
there was no evidence until Kerrigan
"squealed," and he was arrested in the
spring of 1876. On the 9th of January
last John Campbell and Neil Dougherty
were convicted of murder in the sec
ond degree for completely in the crime.
On the 10th of January Jack Kehoe was
convicted of murder in the first de-
gree. The witnesses against him were
mostly fellow-mine and their testimo-
ny left no chance of escape. The reason
for the difference in the sentences was
because, while there was doubt of the
Dougherty and Campbell, there could
be no doubt of Kehoe's generalization
and deadly purpose. On the 18th of
April Judge Pershing sentenced him to
be hanged He was the sixteenth thus
sentenced. He is now in Jail pending
an argument on writ of error at the
next term of the court. In the summer
of 1868 mob attacked the Jail at Mauch
Chunk, forced their way in, and released
Il number of prisoners.
In the fall of the same year George
X. Smith was brutality murdered at All
denried, in his own house and in the
presence OF his family. The total of the
next three years foots up fifty-fve muir
ders in Schuylkill county alone.
Henry Ell. Dunno, well-known resi-
dent of Pottsville, and the superintend-
ent of one of the largest coal-mining
companies in the Schuylkill region, was
murdered ON the 10th of January, 1866,
in cold blood upon the public highway,
within two miles of the town of Potts
vile, while driving to his home from one
of the collieries that lie had in charge
No arrests were ever made, nor was any
information ever obtained that gave the
slightest clew to the detection of the
assassins.
In Carbon county there were numer-
GUS murders of this prominent
among them those of George X. Smith,
f. W. S. Langdon, and Graham Powell,
all leading coal operators. No one has
ever been convicted on these charges.
Alexander w. Rea was killed upon the
public road, near Centralia, Columbia
county, on the 18th of October, 1868.
Several parties were arrested and tried,
but escaped by means of an alibi
Finally Patrick Hester, Patrick Tully
and Peter McHugh were tried at Blooms
burg and convicted in February last.
They were sentenced to death, and we're
to be hanged Aug. 8, but writ of error
has issued.
On the 18th of March, 1869, William
FL. Littlehales, superintendent of the
Glen Carbon Coal Company, was killed
upon the public road in Cass township,
Schuylkill county, while returning home
from Pottsville. Several persons saw
the murder, but no information could be
got, and no arrests were ever made.
In the spring of 1871 Alexander Camp
bell was refused work by Morgan
Powell, boss of the Lehigh Coal and
Navigation Company at Summit Hill,
near Mauch Chunk, and on the Cd of
December, 1871, Powell was shot. For
this murder "Yellow Jack" Donahue
was hanged to-day. On the 10th of
July, 1875, at 2 o'clock in the morning.
Benjamin F. Yost, public officer of
Tamaqua, was shot by two persons.
For this crime, Mcclellan, Boyle, Roar
ity and Carroll were hanged to-day.
On the 18th of August, 1875, Thomas
Gwythe, a Justice of the Peace residing
In the borough of Girardville, Schuyl-
kill county, who had issued warrant
for the arrest of William Love, mem
Der of the Mollie Maguires, was shot
and killed by Love in the main street.
Love escaped and has since eyaded
pursuit.
On the 10th of August, two days later.
Cover James, young Welshman living
at Shenandoah, for whose murder the
order had offered reward, was killed in
daylight at a picnic by Thomas Hurley,
i'll the presence of several hundred peo-
pie. The reward was offered at a c,unty