Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-12-18
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DEATH BY THE ROPE
JACK KEHOE HANGED.
AUCTION SALE OF COAL.
EUROPEAN AFFAIRS.
JACK kEEsOE HANGED.
Last Hours Of the Chief Of the Mol

POTTSvIILE. Pa, Dec. Is, II a. m-Jack
kehoe, the notorious chief OF the Mollie Ma
guireS. was hanged here at 1881 this morning.
kehoe's last night on earth was spent peace
fully and quietly. He retired to bed at II O'clock
soon fell asleep and slept without awakening
arrived, at O'clock Kehoe was Still i'm bed, but
awake. lie arose and remarked. in answer TO a
question, that he felt - first-rate-never better
in his life.' Fathers Gallagher and Brennan
arrived and commenced the celebration OF mass
which occupied over an hour. After light
breakfast the religious exercises We're renewed
and continued until about 10 O'Clock. when
Sherln MatZ gave the signal for the preparation
for the gallowS.
kEHoE ASSERTS HIS INNOCENCE on THE SCAFFoLD
At 1928 the doomed man, preceded by Sheriff
MatZ and Warden King, and between Fathers
gallagher and Brennan, left the prison by a
side door and marched to the Scaffold When
they had mounted it, Sheriff MatZ asked Kehoe
whether he had anything to say why the sea-
tence or the law should not be executed. kehoe
answered in the affirmative, and, pausing to
take breath. said: " / am not guilty of the muir
DER OF l-angdon. never saw the crime commit
ted" Father Gallagher, who with Father Bren-
nan was by this time kneelfng at the foot OF the
scaffold, arose. kehoe stepped back a step and
nodded that he was ready. His legs and arms
were strapped and his ankles shacKled Sheriff
MdJZ then adjusted the moose around kehoe )
neck and drew the white cap over his head and
then descended from the Scaffold. Two deputy
shellflS moved the upright supports, and
THE TRAP WAS SPRUNG.
At precisely 1927 the drop fell. kehoe's body
was violently contorted for a few minutes,
drawing up his legs and struggling for breath
minute and a-half after the falling OF the
drop the respiration was thirty-SiX. At three
minutes it was tWenty-four then slightly raised
and ceased. Death was caused by Strangular
tion. The body was cut down at twenty-three
minutes OF eleven, and was taken in charge by
Undertaken Waldron, who removed it to his Of
fce. 1t was then taken by special train TO
shenandoah, where it is TO be "Wakedr for two
nights. On Friday morning the remains will be
for hnr oil sVr.r-oc fTn1.
were erected in tie prison yard here yesterday.
IN anticipation OF double execution, the inten-
tlon being TO hang Bergen and KehOe separate
ly; but upon receipt OF the reprieye Of the for
mer, one OF the scaffoldS was taken down.
THE CRIME FOR WHICH KEHoE WAS HANGED
to-day was committed at Audenrfed. Carbon
county, Pa, June l4th, 1862. That evening a
meeting was being held at Williams hotel, in
Audenried, for the purpose OF making arrange
ments to celebrate the approaching 4th of July.
LangdOn, the murdered man, was there aS
were also kehoe and others, members of an or
ganization called the Buckshots, which at that
time was the terror OF the whole region. Lang
don, who was ticket boss" at j. b. McCreary &
co. S Honey Brook colliery, was very unpopular
discipline among the men. On the night in
question band of music was engaged. and
speeches were made, during which Kehoe,
Campbell, DOnohue and others eyinced deter
m1nation to pick quarrel with Langdon. Ke-
hoe taunted LangdOn upon the subject of Their
bitter feelings and subsequently Spat upon a
Union nag winch dfapeQ the speakers platform.
Langdon demonstrated with him. when kehoe
was heard TO threaten violence against him
Shortly afterwards LangdOn started for home,
but was fallen upon and severely beaten by a
party OF men. The next morning, however, he
1elt so well that he walked to his home at Hon.
ey Brook, two miles distant, but be died there
two days afterwards from the effects OF his in
juries. Fourteen years afterwards, in May.
1876, kehoe and half dozen Others were ar
rested for conspiracy and assault and battery
and in August following We're each sentenced &c
seven years imprisonment. Further develop
mentS in the Langdon case led in January, 1874
to kehoes trial for that murder, and he was
convicted. From this time forward every legal
step was fought inch by inch. a motion for a
new trial was made, but was soon afterwards
WITHDRAWN, and April 10th. 1917, the death sen.
tence was passed upon him. The case was then
taken to the supreme court, where last January
the decision OF the lower court was affirmed
and In March the first death warrant was is
sued. This was subsequently Withdrawn, and
the case went to the board OF pardonS. but with.
out avail.