The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-06-21
Fate OF TIE MOLLY MAGUIRES,
The Terrible Work the ScaffOld
Must Do To-Day Account Of
the Crimes tObe Punished
on the GallOWs.

here IN leeiluB Vi hnAloIy anu ONNiVO
ment, All eyes seem to turn towards
the county prison, large and imposing
building with massive stone wall in
closure, situate on one Of the many hills
surrounding the town, in which the con
demned men await their doom. Confn
ed with them are number of othel
Mollies, some undergoing long sentences
as conspirators in plans to murder, hap
PLY frustrated, or accomplices after the
fact TO murders, and one other, like
themselves doomed to die, but whose
case is in the Supreme Court undisposec
of.
Discovery Of the MOllles' Real Objects.
Ever since James McFarlen, the Pink
erton detective, made his disclosures up
on the witness stand of the horrible iacl
that there had existed for a number o.
wears in the Anthracite coal region an
oath. h.bound society, whose ostensible OBJ,
iect was good and beneficial one, bu'
whose real object had been to obtain con-
troll of the industrial and political lntrests
of that region by threats OF violence
which thew showed themselves both will
ing and able to carry into ehect, thls
community has felt that the punishment
for the crimes committed by them was a
matter upon which the very existence oi
the lives and properties of the citizens
denended. When six men in the prime
oSiifa fonr of them husbands and fathers
can be sentenced and executed without
arousing a general feeling of sympathy
and pity it may be accepted as sure IN
dication that the community nave no
doubt of their guilt and that their guilt is
of no ordinary kind.
The Five Murderers of Policeman YOst.
Five of the men, James Carroll, Hugh
Mcclellan, James Boyley, James Roarlty
and Thos. Duffy, to be executed Thurs
day, were tried and convicted OF the
murder of policeman Yost, who was sh0t
in the borough of Tamaqua, on the 6th
of July, 1875. in the early morning, whilst
extinguishing street lamp. lie suivl-
we'd his injuries several hours, but was
unable to give any further clue to the
murderers than that they were men from
Carbon county whom he had seen at the
house of James Carroll earlier in the
night in which he had been shot: NO
arrests were made at the time, and the
matter had almost died out of the public
mind, which was filled with horror and
almost despair, by five subsequent MUIR
ders, as cruel, more daring and appar-
emily as unfathomable.
Frank D. GOwen Appears Upon the Scene
Whilst the general public was despair.
ing and the criminals exuting, man OF
untiring energy, great intelligence and IN
command of vast means had determined
TO detect and externinate the perpetra-
tors of the foul crimes which disgraced
the anthracite coal region-that man, mr..
F. B. GoWen, President of the Phlladel-
phia and Reading Railroad Company,
had laid his plans with that shreWd
SCotchman, Allen Pinkerton, and more
than a year before Policeman Yost was
shot they began to make the net which
has since lan6ed in the halls of Justice,
more than thirty guilty Molly Maguires,
seventeen of whom will be hanged; nor
is this net yet empty, but the hope and
beliefs that it will drag in every living
member of the Molly Mcguire order a.
gainst whom the crime Of murder can be
proven.
Convicted Ont Of Their Own Mouths.
Policeman Yost had not been dead a
month before the Pinkerton Agency was
in possession of all the facts of the muir
der out of the mouths of four of the guilty
parties and breaking off in an incomplete
state the investigation into the crimes
and criminals connected with the Molly
Mcguire organization prevented an i'm
mediate arrest of all those implicated.
The story of the detection of these men
by McParlen is we'll known and has been
given world wide reputation by the ad.
mirable book on the "Molly Maguires"
written by F. P. Devices, of the bar OF
this county q. B. Lippincott q Co. 1861
Murders Planned in Cold Blood.
No murder more clearly illustrates the
Molly Mcguire method than that OF Po-
liceman Yost. Thomas Duff, Molly
Mcguire of the Tamaqua division, resi-
ding few miles west of the town and
employed as an engineer at one Of the
collieries, was in the habit of going to
Tamaqua on pay and other festivetdays
and drinking to excess, generally termin'
ating his spree by row, an arrest and a
soiourn in the lookup; on more than one
occasion he fell into the hands of Police
man Yost, who was obliged to use force
and his club to effect the arrest. These
blows were recalled to Duffy sober by
the wounds they left, and he determined
to be avenged on the officer. Duffy COM
planned to Carroll, who was Bodymaster
or chief of the Tamaqua Division of
Molly Maguires; the complaint was by
the Division held to be well founded, and
the perpetrator condemned to die. In
with Molly rules the deed
was to be executed by strangers to the
victim, and therefore Carroll called on
James Roarity, Bodymaster of the Coal
dale Division of Mollies to furnish men
to kill YOst, Carroll promising to return
the favor when called upOn. Roarity
agreed at first to do the deed himself,
with the aid of others from his division,
for the payment to him often
dollars to defray expenses, but call for
a similar service having been made on
Roarity's division by Alexander Camp
bell, Bodymaster of the Summit Hill di-
vision of Mollies, Roarity proposed to
Carroll that if he (CarrolD would furnish
men to kill CampbelPs man, John P.
Jones, then he (Roarity) would see that
men were sent from CampbelPs division
to kill Yost. This was agreed to all a.
round, and the agreement faithfully car
ried out.
Kerrigan's Part In the Bloody Tragedy.
James Roarity, Hugh Mcclellan, and
man by the name of Mulhern were orig.
inally picked out for the Tamaqua 'job,"
as it was called, but when James Kerri-
gan, who had been sent by Carroll to
bring the men over and show them their
victim, arrived at Campbell's, in Summit
Hill, he found that James Boyle had been
for Mulhern, and at the last
Roarity sent his pistol with
message that he could not be fthe party
- oooo,,rf of tho earinua aioEnQaa 0f his