The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1877-06-23
THEE GALLOWS !
DOYLE, KELLY, CAMPBELL and
DoNAHUE Suffer the Ex-
treme Penalty Of Law
for the Murder of
J. p. JONES & MoRG. POWELL.

for the Murder of
J. p. JONES & MoRG. POWELL.
The majesty of the law has been
vindicated, and the four Molly Mcguire
assassins--Campbell, Doyle, Kelly and
"Yellow Jack" Domahoe-so long con-
fined in our Jail, have now paid the
law its just penalty, namely, their
lives. The community breathes more
freely now that these men, who feared
neither the laws of God or man, have
met their doom. The Inhabitants at
large of this town and surrounding
neighborhood, much as they regret the
necessity which compes capital punish
ment, cannot see aught else in this su-
preme atonement of the four men in
question, than well-merited sentence.
To our Judges, to our District At
torney, to our Sheriff, to our police,
to all concerned, who have so faithfully
helped the cause of Justice in bringing
the Molly Maguires to trial, debt of
deep gratitude is owing by all of us. 1t
is to be hoped that no similar tragedies,
like those for which the four unhappy
men are now lying stark in their co fins,
may ever darken the annals of Carbon
county. The sorrow and shame these
four men have brought on their families
-(and of them respected members of
the several communities in which they
reside) can not be wiped out for gem
eratlons to come. The mantle of char
ity and Christian Kindness must be
thrown over the past, and no man pos
sessing spark of manhood in his bos-
ON will ever reproach any of the DOOM
ed mems families for their connection
with the Molly Mcguire movement,
which turned Carbon county into
perfect paEdemonium while it lasted.
In pursuance of instructions the
holders of passes at nine o'clock pre-
sented themselves in solid phalanx in
front of the Jail, and with hands tight
ly closed upon the precious paste
board, besought admittance. The
stout, able-bodied policeman, dressed
in authority and black iuoustache,
said, "Nv, gentlemen, you cannot come
in for some time YETI
Then the Easton Gays came up and
so disposed themselves as to clear a
large portion of the street in front of
the Jail. Next came forth man with
perfectly solvent lungs who spoke as
one in authority, and not as one of the
scribes, saying: You, gentlemen, must
all get right down from here into the
street, ana clear them there steps,
Then the scribes, i. q. the reporters
and the jury and the deputy sheriffs,
aud all those who had passes stepped
IL FOL ha
paper men having nothing else to do,
looked at the brick house across the
street, where Donahue's mother was
seated at the second story window, and
his brother from Cumberland, Nd, at
the window next the alley. The father
and mother of Doyle were in the house
across the alley. A policeman emerge
ed from the Jail bidding the Sheriff S
jury to enter, which they did and were
speedily sworn.
The jury consisted of "a men repre-
senting different parts of the county,
were called at $3.50. They entered
sideroom where their names were called
by the Sheriff, a nd they were then sew
orally sworn.
At 1880 the doors were thrown open
and the 70 deputy sheriffs and some 80
newspaper reporters entered and were
assigned to their places. The arrange
ments for the execution had been COM
pleted. The ropes were pendant in
their places on the central beams the
appliances to confne the limbs of the
condemned were provided, and white
caps designed to conceal their features
laid on each corner of the scaffold. Only
a few minutes elapsed after tn e admis-
sion of the few spectators allowed to
witness the execution, when Sheriff
Raudenbush descended from the plat
form, an indication that all was ready.
A painful sense of oppression seemed
to pervade the assemblage. as the clang
occasiOned by the opening of a cell
door announced that the work of death
was about TO begin. The first to mount
the platform was Alex. Campbell, who
was followed by his spiritual adviser
Campbell was ahead, aud stepped up
} the stairway TO the fatal trap with as
J light foot as one usually has in as
cending stairs. His limbs were free,
and he tlok his position on the gallo ws
without a tremor. Sheriff Raudenbush
had preceded him in order to arrange
, details. Campbell, busy with his de-
vOtiOns, his lips moving silently, had
, his eyes fixed on bronze cruolix,
| which he held in his hand in front of
him. He was accompanied by Father
Wynne, of Summit Hill, who was en-
gagged in the reading of an appropriate
Psalm.
, Father Bunce and Doyle then ascend
} ed the scatfold, and Sheriff Raudenbush
7 asked Campbell if he had anything to
say. Campbell replied in a tone so low
that his voice could not be heard be-
! yond the distance of few feet, that he
did not wish to speak. He already for
e gave everybody, and died at peace with
, all the world.
5 Doyle, upon being asked the same
: question, made a few remarks in low
, aud feeble voice, Tegretting his past
lfe,and closed by say ing that if he had
. listened to the voice of his priest and
7 kept out of secret societies he would
! not have been in his present position.
. Thus. from the verge of the gibbet and
I the very brink of the grave Molly
Y | Maguirsism has received its most signal