The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-17
HERALD SUNDAY IT, 1s77-QUADRUPLE SHEET

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lovemakng was as much duty rs pleasure /. was
IL McKennas tate thai they should arather queer
adventure. Already the detective had been making
desperate Mary Ann Hegins the sster-inlaw OF
the famous Jimmy Kerrigan and the belle Of Tamaqua
but torgetful Of his queen of tho valley accepted
invitation TO attend ranie at the Widow Breslins
shcbeen ~ Buck Mountain, where be met handsome
lass Of uncertain age named Kate Mcintyre. Conn
0'ponnell brought them together. ana she was MISS
Mcintyre 70 Mr. hckenna The maiden WAS evidently
smitten with the young man, and, Notwithstanding
they stumbled ever drunken fellow during walk ia
casiness In the mind Of tho gentle Kate, he vonn.
teercd TO see her home. On the way sne suddenly
withdrew her arm from that Of her chevaicr and ex-
claimed, "My God! II Is my husbandl Our lives are
In danger. He will kill US bothi" "Im jist OF the
mind to step out into the road and shoot that husband
Kate IN reality Mrs. Mcintyre, 'before he has
chance 10 say word or do wan single thing" The
ws's sntreaties prevailed, however, and the drunken
hand, without molestation.
WORKING NINE
A buster man than Mckcnna during all this time
cannot well be imagined. Besides his social duties
pleasures he required daily to keep the agency
advised OF what was gong on among the "Moies,' =
which light task when II is remembered that
he had become leader 10 the organization being the
long strike had set In and he had to perform his
SHARE apparently, At least In the ourages which
becoming q SO frequent occurrence. To all APP
pearauccs his zeal was great, and his activity
was even greater. HIS anxiety 70 learn what
going on put him forward many
an encounter, ana in the Pinkerton book he Ia the
central ngurc club In hand raised his head,
IN the picture oil the attack upon the West Shenandoah
coll.sry, where the mob was awed and repulssd by
Captain Lindsn's courage The ostensible miner VI
1873 was, indeed, working mine with great success.
In these stirring times the detective vas ubiquitous
night he sat in Pat Hestcrs parlor playing cards
with Yellow Jack" Donohue-to be hanged al Mauch
Chunk on Thursday Tor the murder Of Powei-Pat
ana his wife, Pat being now under sentence oil death
At Bloomsbury for the murder OF Rae on
other night he sat in the council meet
c tas with Jack Kehoe, CHRIS CHRIS Donneiiy A and
others deliberatng on the ASSASSINATION Of Tho Majors
and "Bully Bill" "For one" SAID Donnelly, an get
two good men an 20 myself an have the Majors
business attended to At once" ave OF this side
mountain are thankful 70 70 bsyans tue mountain"
AFFAIR ourscl'sn sim in favor o. shootn Bully BIZ
bowdly, right on tho street, IN open daylight"
claimed Jack Kehoe. Nike o'Brion ana Mokcnna
were appointed q committee to see what should DO
done with this obnoxious mining boss ON s,iil
another night his relations with the Molies" coni-
PEELED him sit up all night In Mrs Monaghans She
been, Lanagan's Patch, telling ghost stories,
singing Irish songs and drinking whls,ey that might
have been tho broth OF Pluto and this the kind
OF preparation he was able TO mako for getting upon
the trail Of the murdcrers OF Yost al Tamaqua
ANOTHER FIGURE CANVAS.
With the murder oil the policeman, Mckcnna's no.
vtae be said to end but In his subsequent abors
another figure stands out even boldly the
vas This was Captain Linden one OF Pnkerton's
onicers. Who mad been made chief Of the Coal and
Iron Police OF all the men have met know
no earned better title W my respect for per-
sona modesty and manly bearing well as Tor daring
deeds In the threatened attack upon the West
Shenandoah colliery was his personal courage and
intrepdty that overawed the mob and II away
from its purpose. That one act ccwed the spirit
OF the strikers and broke the backbone OF the
long strike. The murder Of Yost quickly followed
and two months later occurred the murder OF ohm r.
Jones, at Lansford. While the murderers OF Jones
were arrested in the bush at little distance from
Tamaqua and conveyed to Mauch Chunk Jail In the
meantime Mcksnns had become familiar with oil tho
besides. BY previous arrangement Il had been
agreed that under circumstances he to be used
witness. but now the time Tor arrest and punish
mcnt had come. and this Was necessarily the work OF
Captain Linden How well no performed HIS task IT.
convicted murderers, ten OF whom be exc
cuied on Thursday, are tho evidence. Unlike
McKsnna, no could not work in secret, bat must
DO whatever h' did in the eye. s.,, Of ,hs
intimidation. That he lives to-day honored and re-
spectcd, by the men he has brought gaows
was not the work Of the policeman or the detective
simply that he performed, although no had his
lawyer and for this he is to be honored because so
completely did he the network OF testimony that
tho orco Of abi broke against 1t IN vain and tho
ingenuity OF counsel was NO match for II.
ARRESTS TRIALs.
Kerrgan Kelly and Doyle were In jail awaiting trial
at Mauch Chunk. Their arrest had created some
easipess among tho whole body OF eMoliy Maguires .
but tor time It Was regarded as purely accidental
Every preparation was made for the trial on both
sides, but the was continued. AT Inst, on the
18th OF January, 1875 the trial OF Michael j. Doyle
for tho murder OF Jones was begun, tho exciting
This detection placed the murderers in power of
tho Commonwealth, aud preparations were Ut once
made to bring all the guilty men 10 justice. On the
Alb oil February Alexander Campbell was sent 10
Mauch Chunk and James Carroll James Roarty
Hugh Mcclellan, James Boyle and Thomas Duffy wero
conveyed TO Potlsve. IN tho 10Th Charles McAlis or
and Thomas Maniey, charged with the murder OF
Sanger and Wren ut Raven Ron. were also committed
to the Sehuylkil Coapty Jail These events made IL
pretty clear that the order had been betrayed and
Suspicion fell upon Mckcnna His death was deter
mined upon. but his daring and cnrontery saved MS
life and enabled him TO escape; no persistent
In claiming to be true and held strcnuousiy
while there the slightest hope OF remain
ing the society that he able that all hope
was gone before the dreadful sentence which had been
passed upon him could be put mo execution. The
Yost came on for trial and McParlan alias
Mckenna Appeared upon the witness The arrest
OF John Kehoe, High Constable Of Girardville and
County Delegate oil the Ancient Order Hbernians for
Scnuyixil county; NJ lchaci Lawlcr OF Shenandoah:
Frank o'Neill, of St. CLAIR Patrick Butler. OF LOST
Greek; Patrick Dolan ST., OF Big Mine Run; Michael
O'Bricn and Frank McHugh, OF Mahanoy
CITY, and Christopher Donnely, of MI Lancc,
quickly followed. Olhor arrests were made In both
COUNTIES; yellow Jaok' Donohue ana Thomas p.
Fisher, In Carbon. and John Sattcry, Charles Mul-
hearn, John Gibbons John Morris md many Others IN
SchuyikiiL Tue story OF these would Oil VOL
ume not be limited At in these letters In
brought Pat Hcstcr, Hugh Tuey and Pat McHugh TO
the Of justice for the murder Of Rae All mas
happened because courageous took his lilo in
his hand and wrought out through much labor and
suffering the unmasking of the MoilisA
APPEALS FOR CLEMENCY.