The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1878-11-23
nIoiI;c Dcatt, warrants ISSUED.

On the 18th of ,Deceinber the notorious
Jack Kehoe, known as the King of the
Molly Maguires, will be hanged for his
many crimes He had hand in many of
the murders during the reign ofterror in the
coal regions, and his word was law. A vast
amount of political capital has been made
out of this case. Kehoe was arrested in 1875,
with five others, for the murder in 1862 of
Frank Iangdon, ticket boss cf the Ruden-
ried colliery, in, Schuylllill, County. He
plotted the crime. He was allowed u seper-
ate trial and was convicted of murder in
the first degree.in April, 1877, The Supreme
Court decided against him and death war
rant was issued The Board OF Pardons was
appealed to but at first refused to touch the
case, Finally, in April last, the Governor
withdrew the death warrant, and in Sep
tember the Board took action and refused a
pardon. The Governor delayed issuing a
second warrant One day last week he sent
a letter to attorney General Lear. In it he
refers to the " attempt from the first TO
make political capital out of the case" and
saws that he vas induced to delay the issue
of the warrant under thaimpression that, as
the final responsibility rested with, him, it
might be neoessaryto make a careful exam-
nation of the tostilEony-R Attorney Gener-
al Lear replieds instructing the Governor
that his duties we're purely ministerial, and
there was nothing left for him to do but to
sign the death warrant, which was done
Monday afternoon" .il, ig"' D, ..,. ..
In addition to the Issuance Of the warrant
for the hanging Of Jack Kehoe, Governor
HartrGnft decided Oh four other executions
on the 18th Of pecember,as follows MARTIN
Birgin, with Kehoc, at Pottsyille Scbuyl-
kill county Charles Sharpeand James Nc
Donnell also Mollies at Mauch Chunk this
county, and Alex. W. Sayresy Of Philadel-
phia. ,. g.. .,. , go.
Bugiq's Cifrlo.-I'irgin was arrested in
Canada last March for participation in a
murder committed in April, 1870. The vic
tim was Patrick II. Burns, who was killed
out of fear tEGt he would reveal a secret he
possessed relative to a. thcftof coal by John
Kane, who paid danes Mcdonnell, VOW
awaiting execution at Mauch Chunk for an
other murder, IS to have Burns put out of
the way. lie produced theservices of Bir-
gin, who shot Burns twice while the latter
was going to work, at a signal given by Nc
Donnell At the trial Mcdonnell was the
principal witness against the accused.
IAe Murder Of Sharpe and O'D0HHeH.-
Charles Sharpe and James O'Donnell are to
he hanged for the murder of Geo. X. Smith
on the night of November 5, 1863 Smith
was prominent coal operator, and was
murdered for giving information relative TO
the whereabouts of men who had evaded
the draft. Il having been intimated that
there would be bloodshcd on the night Of the
tradegy, man named Ulrich went to
Smiths residence, at the instance Of the lat
ters wife, after supper ulrich answered
rap at the door, and two strangers entered.
One of the men claimed to have a message
fer Mr. Smith, and while pretending to
draw it from his pocket he pulled put pis-
tol, which was discharged. Mrs Smith
loudly screamed, when her husband who
had been in bed, ran down stairs and was
shot dead by one of the strangers. Ulrich
was wounded, but not fatally, The arrest of
Sharpe and Mcdonnell was principally due
to the revelations of James Kerrigan and
Kelly the Bum" who stood high in the
murderous Mollie Mcguire gang
Vie Nurdcr-.AleNandcr W. Sayres was
convicted Of the shooting of his wife in
church, at Philadelphia, on November Is,
1878.