The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-06-21

sleep they congratulated themselves up
on having made cover, meeting put one
person, whom they had misled BY q
false story; but both that person and the
falsehood they told him rose up in terri
BILE Judgment against them at their trlal.
The detective was at once put on the
work of ferreting out the perpetrators OF
this crime, and before month elapsed
Mcclellan, Roarity, Carroll, Campbell
and Kerrigan had boastingly told him OF
the "clean'i job that had been done and
all the particulars Of It's doing.
The Thrilling Story Of Detective McParlen.
Kerrigan became a participator in tie
murder of Jno. P. Jones, at Lansford
and was arrested, but before his trial in
February, 1876, he turned States eVl-
dence, and disclosed all the facts connect
ed with both murders. Before the au-
thorities permitted the fact OF Kerrlgans
having turned informer to transplre, they
placed his accomplices in both murders
in the iails of the respective counties OF
Schuylkill and Carbon, in which the
crimes had been committed. Carroll,
Mcclellan, BOYLE, Duffy and Roarity
were put on trial in Schuylkill county,
in May, 1875, and then it was that for
the first time, was heard that wonderful.
ly thrilling story of the adventures and
discoveries of McParlen, the detective,
during his more than two years expert
ence among the Mollies, he himself hav-
ing been admitted into their society and
introduced to the inmost secrets. But
the first trial, after having lasted up
wards of two weeks, and having nearly
reached conclusion, was brought TO an
untimely end by the death OF one OF the
Jurors empannelled in the case. The
following July the case against the i've
men was again called, but this time Ihos;;
Duffy elected to be tried separately, and
the court proceeded to try the other four
After lengthy trial, in which the Dis.
trict Attorney, Mr.. KaCrcher, was assisted
by Mr.. Hughes, Mr.. Gowen, Mr.. AL
bright and Mr.. G. Il. Farquhar, and the
prisoners defended by Mr., j. W. Ryon
Mr.. Bartholomew and Mr.. Kalbfusz, a
verdict of guilty of murder in the first
degree was reached. Shortly afterwards
the case against Duffy was taken up and
a like verdict reached. Motions for new
trials, appeals to the Supreme Court and
the Board of Pardons have left these
verdicts unimpeached, and on Thursday
the sentence passed upon them Will be
executed. OF the six active partlcipa-
tors in the murder of Yost i've hang,
and one by turning States evidence has
saved his neck. Campbell, one of them,
hangs for the murder of John 7. Jones,
in Carbon county, he never having been
tried for the murder of Yost.
The Murderers of Sanger and Wren.
Thos. Munley, the sixth victim of the
gallows on next Thursday, is the only one
of the five murderers of Thomas Sanger
and VIM. Wren who has as yet been
brought to Justice Two Of the others
have since died violent deaths, and the
other two are fugitives from justice. VI
the five men who shot and killed Sanger
and Wren at Ravens Run on Sept. l, 70,
only one was known to them, and he
was there to point out Sanger to the
strangers who had been appointed to
shoot him. The expedition was against
Sanger, a mine boss, who had rendered
himself obnoxious to some Molly by dis
charging him from work. Wren attempt
ed to interfere to save his friend and met
a like fate. The terror which these men
inspired may be imagined, when it is
shown, as in the case of Sanger and Wren
that men were shot in broad daylight in
sight of their homes, and upwards OF one
hundred men and boys who were near
the place waiting to go to their work and
yet the whole company Of five assassins
made good their escape into the woods
and hills surrounding. Munley was ar
rested in consequence of McParlen's DIS
closures nearly six months after the MUIR
der, recognized by some of the persons
upon whom his savage face had made an
on that morning of the bloody
tried, convicted and every
thing done by his able counsel, Mr.. ).
w. Ryon and Mr.. Bartholomew, to arrest
the terrible consequence which he must
suffer for that mornings work.
These six men are to be hung on one
scafold all together inside the inclosure |
of the prison. The Sheriff has taken ev-
cry precaution to prevent any interfer-
ence. Beside the regular prison guard |
he has at his command large force OF
men known as the Coal and Iron Police.
The execution will take place in the pres
ence of a limited number of witnesses
invited by the Sheriff to be present. The
men themselves are ministered to by the
Roman Catholic Church, and are prepar-
ed to meet their fate. Gold help them
and their poor families to recognize the
truth that no man can outrage the law
of God and man without paying the pen
altv.