The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-12-19


Keep whiskey shop. the business OF most II
not all the body masters and delegates
o. S that Infamous gang 9t esssssins. His she
Hibernian House, and was for years iavorite
haunt Of the Mollies, where they met to plan
their cowardly and brutal outrages, They
could do so there in safety, for none but con-
9nt hs SnP yenuTed there
sumed personality as McKenna. made himself
irequenter and unearthed the guilty secrets Of
In 1862 and in company with Yellow Jack A."
Donohue, Nell Dougherty. John Campbell. and
some some others kehoe perpetrated the murder for
Ihangd2n, ticket boss at j. b. McCreary Co.'s
ihb9InsyorooR ibIn c9bIlieTy ;b IL was then common
one Of them to the body master " OF his local
division against any person toward whom he
might hold grudge. to decree the death Of the
offender and the person SO doomed would
either be set upon by number Of them and
eoaten to dcath, with stones and bludgeons un-
der pretence OF an accidental quarrel or Il do
liberate detail OF assassins would be made,
whose duty II would be to waylay and slaughter
the victim in whatever manner might be deemed
safest for themselves. Such sentence OF death
had been passed upon Langdon. Practice had
not yet made the, Molles, so perfect in the art OF
ingenious murder as they aiterward became.
They had not developed thoroughly their sub
sequent system Of exchanging murders 90 that
an assassination should always be perpetrated
by men not known in the Immediate noighbor-
occasion Of meeting at willlams's Hotel in
Audenried, called TO arrange Fourth Of July
celebration. was seized for the execution Of the
sentence E upon Langd9n. quarrel was fxed
he @ the % Goe 20 R0S RO%e n heS scosId hSn h%
attacked him. beat him down with budgeons
crushed his skull by blows with heavy swingle
Tree ana with big stones. He lived until the
,Donahoe was hanged in Mauch Chunk, Juno
81, 1877. for the murder OF Morgan Powell
another mine boss. Dougherty and. Campbell
are now serving out their sentences OF five and
nine years imprisonment respectively; for their
ing been convicted OF murder In the second de-
gree hehoe alone was hanged for that bloody
Snn not e spw uh m rHn9S
years after the crime and then not for the Of
fence which he has just expiated, but for
1t was in 1874 that no became county delegate
OF the Molly Mcguire order. His predecessor
in that office. Barney Dolan. had been expelled
for failure TO pay over TO the State treasury OF
the order money which he had received. kehoe
wanted the ONCE, and by timely action in giving
guilty Of a murderous attack upon some Ger
man and Welsh miners-for which they under
went the then farcical formality OF arrest
made himself so popular that, he was elected to
the office he coveted. Under his cunning
direction 9Hd nstisPti0n the lSylessness
/. eVon elai%sd %H for fHe' that Sf'0TS; he
plan by which Summit Hin did Tsmaa1a's :
killing. and Tamaqna that Of Shenandoah. ana
SO on in their lively merry-go-round OF muir
| longed to the parent society In Ireland. hut he
is said to have applied it, here more effectively
grew to be known as King Kehoe." and boast
ed that he carried Schuylkill County In his
psssd John ON Ss sTs IA 8s tRS, keb5y kky
was ono. OF the most efficient agents
in securing SeS the votes Of tho N2iss
was supplied plentifuiiy with money for
that purposc-getting as much as 81 800 on one
rs sns 'n N
| elected, the executive power should be welded
70 shield any Mollies who tight get intotrouble
| This political Importance was further shown
by his election 10 the Office OF High Constable OF
| the borough OF Girardville-quite q dignity In
The Immediate cnain OF events that led to his
| final arrest in 1878 began with the murder OF
George Major h ShiSi Burgess e Mahanoy city
% procure his release. Then William and
with their friend William Thomas. tried to Kill
poughertyi hehoe determined that thcy
| Of Mount I.afe,, County Treasurer; William
GAVIN q Bug Nine Run. County Secretary
aud half dozen others met In Clark's Emerald
House in Mahanoy City on sunday. June
$50. to arrange the killing OF those three men
| Those titles belong 20 the secret order not &c
| the county government kehoe opened tht
meeting with prayer and presided. Twenty.
| Thomas. fired eight bullets into his body and
left him for dead, The MAJOR brothers were
| warned IN tme ana ntu tNt Nlhte.
After that. Kehoe ~ High Constable, effected
! the escape OF William Love. a Molly who killed
man named Hoar; and Gs county delegate ad'
| ~ iged due 20. and would have paid Tom Hurley
$500 tor killing Conner James AT shenandoah
but Hurley had 70 run run aE9y before he got got the
his mother could bear witness he had fairly
earned. Many other illustrations OF his energy
and executive ability as murder master and
| told 10 give an idea Of how important man ht
had bec3me by the time when. In 1873
into into his secrets. He He suspected Mcfaran
and vanly tried % poison him. but not unit
enough had been discovered 20 criminaie hin
| 1876 Jack Kehoe was lodged in Jail here IN
Pousyille. charged with conspiring with MI.
| chael O'Brien. Chris. Donnelly, yellow Jack
| Donahue James koarty. Dennis F. Canning. +
| the murder of William NJ. Thomas the man In
| whose body the assassins planted eight bullets
and who still got well. He was also, with sew
eral others Of those named; charged with con
| spring against william and Jesse Malort pro,
| cure their murder. In both cases he was found
| guilty and sentenced 10 the full penalty OF the
| law. seven years Of imprisonment.
But while he was locked up. and other arrests
| and prosecutions Of Mollies were taking place
In all directions, the Mollies became terrified
He was their head. and had he remained Al
liberty they might have stood together more
solidy, but rs II was, they were frightened and
seemed 10 run races 70 give away" their hor-
rible stories 10 the officers Of tho law, SO suf
| hcent evidence was picked up to TX clearly
upon Kehoe the Langdon murder an incident
SO long past that II had doubtless become tC
| him. rs De Quincy said. Some little murder
| which perhaps he thought nothing OF at tht
time" and had not cared 10 remember since
He was sentenced 10 doath Tor that crime II
| January, 1877, and his execution WAS nNed iol
| July lG, Tut the Board of Purdpns gave him
| res pite. Great efforts were made through lega
| ingenuity and political influence 10 procure
| commutation Of the drnth penalty, but w thou
avail But months were spent in delay ap
parenty in the hope that tho mater wquii b.
| Ultimately lost sight o. Now Jack KchOe
King Of the Molies." is dead. and the In
| famous association OF which he WIS a leadinl
| spirit has received in his death u moro crush
| ing blow than could have been dealt 1t in th'
hanging OF ten other men In the anthracite Goa
PoTTsvIILH Pa. Dec 18.-The body arrive,
| at Girardyille (his old homol by special train n
| O'Clock, and WAS received by large numbe
Of relatives and friends.