The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-04-11
MURDER OF WILLIAM HARE.
More MOllle Mcguire Developments in WestmOrt

More MOllie Mcguire Developments in WestmOre'
land.
The Greensburg papers give informa-
ton of new developments concerning
the Mollie Maguires of Westmoreland
county. 1t seems that William Hare, a
miner, in East Huntington township,
had set himself in opposition to strikes
and constant fault finding with his en-
ployer, was one Eight, during the month
of last October, assaulted and struck over
the head with some sharp weapon and
otherwise injured. From the effects he
fingered in great agony until January,
when he died. In his lucid moments he
made statement to his family, in pres
ence of some friends, who he supposed
had been his assailants, but his state
ments were contradictory.
One story of the murder is that while
William Hare and his nephew Peter
Hare were returning from the store at
Scottdale on the night in question, Peter
Hare discharged his revolver, lit is now
thought as a signal to his aCcomplices)
when he was told by William Hare that
he should not have done SO; that he
(William) was marked man (his life
having been threatened on account Of
his having been, in miners parlanCe, a
"black- -leg,") and that the revolver may
have saved his life, Peter then started
back after more ammunition, first having
seated his uncle, who was somewhat in-
toxicated, on rail pile by the roadside.
On his return nothing could be seen of
Hare, the uncle, but his hat was found
near where he had been sitting. Peter
started toward Scottdale to continue the
search, when he met, he alleges, William
Lynch and Patrick Roberts, whom he
asked if they had his uncle. They said
they had not, and after proceeding some
distance, he returned to the rail pile to
make further examination of the vicin-
ity. His efforts were rewarded by find
ing William Hare in a swamp, unCon-
scious, with deepindention on his head
He was taken to his home, and fingered,
as above stated, till some time in Janu-
ary.
At the time of the occurrence, when it
was not thought the man was fatally in
jured, warrants were issued for the arrest
of Peter Hare, Pat Roberts and William
Lynch, on the charge of felonious assault
and battery. The parties fled after the
commission of the crime, and when
Hare died from the injuries received at
their hands, the charge of murder was
entered against them, and warrants for
their arrest issued. Nothing was heard
of the trio until last week, when Lynch
and Roberts returned to SCottdale, evil
dently not being aware of the result of
their brutal assault. They were arrested
and on Friday committed to Jail. 1t was
afterwards asCertained that Peter Hare
was hiding in the mountain, somewhere
in the vicinity of Nineveh station, and
the officers succeeded in arresting him,
and on Saturday last he was committed
to jail. Since their incarceration Roberts
and Lynch place the crime upon Peter
Hare, while he as strenuously asserts
that they are all guilty parties. They
all agree in this, however, that the COM
mission of the crime lies between them,
and that no one else was concerned in
it. This strange admission indicates
that they all knew something about the
case, but are as yet unwilling to diVulge
particulars.-PitS. Post, april 4h.