Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-01-22

did not view the intelligence with un-
concern, and as her husband was i'll she
requested Mr.. Ulrich to remain in the
house all night.
TIE AssAssIN's RAP ON THE DOOR.
At about 8 o'clock the clerk heard a
rap at the front door, AID, opening it
he found standing without mau whom
he supposed to be Evan Jones Welsh
man. Telling him to wal, a moment
until the watch dog could be put away
Ulrich closed the door and them put
the animal in the parlor, where Mrs.
Smith was sitting. He then opened
the front door, and as be did so tall
man, enveloped in soldiers light blue
overcoat, walked in and was followed
by the one supposed to be Evan Jones,
but it was not the Welshman, at U-
rich perceived when he saw the mans
face. The big man asked if Mr. Smith
was q; home. The clerk replied in
the negative, but almost Immediately
afterwards said that Mr.. Smith was
in, but was very sick. Tie tall
man said that be had a very import
ant letter for him, which he had brought
from Mauch Chunk Ulrich said he
would hand it to his employer, but the
tall man said that be had been instruct
ed to deliver it himself. Mrs. Smith
was told of what the man said, aud
she wert up and broug bit back as Mr..
Smiths answer that if the letter could
not be intrusted in his wife's care the
bearer would have 20 wait to see him
until the next day. "Then If | can't
deliver it 10 him." said the tall man,
in husky voice, 81 must deliver it to
you," and with that be put one hand
behind him and Ulrich saw the but end
of Colts revolver. which be was pull
ling from his hip-pocket. The trigger,
however: caught in his clothing, and
one chamber of the pistol was discbarg-
ed, the bullet entering the floor. "Oh
my Godr' cried out Mrs. Smith, as she
turned and quickly ran into the library
The tall man instantly threw his arms
around Ulrich's neck and held him
firmly while his companion beat the
clerk with a blackjack on his head
shoulders and back. The tall man
again raised bis revolver and placed it
against Ulrich's head, but the clerk
quickly threw up bis left hand and
knocked the weapon away, and the
weapon being just then discharged the
ball pierced a hole in the wall, the
fash of the powder singing Ulrich's
face.
A GANG OF MURDERERs.
While this attack was going on some
forty or fifty Buckshots, all armed and
variously disguised in soldiers over
coats and in miners clothes, had forced
their way into the house The tall man
again tried to shoot Ulrich in the head,
but again was the clerks arm quickiey
raised and the ball this time passed
over his head The crowd now pushed
Ulrich against the wall, and one of the
crowd getting behind him on his hands
and knees shot him in one leg. Ulrich
then broke away from the crowd and
tried to get up stairs, but he was pursu-
co, and as he finally reached the foot
of thu stairway. Sir. Smith came down
and walked directly into the gang of
assassins That had come to murder him.
Ulrich ran t. the front door, but had
not opened it tAfcre he was Knocked
down and two shots more fred at him.
Rising again to his feet be looked
behind and saw HIS employer standing
in front Of the crowd. One man crept
up behind him placed revolver to Mr..
Smiths head and fred. The coal oper-
ator fell dead upon the floor. After
firing three or four times at Mrs.
Smiths sister the crowd ran from the
house, but as they retreated ClricL
uuon them with his revolver. One
man fell dead in the hallway and tracks
of blood we're seen leading from the
house. From the fact that "Buck-
sho, funeral, secretely conducted fol-
lowed soon after, it was supposed that
another of the assassins had met with
death that had been dealt to George X. |
Smith.
Great excitement followed this at
that time, unparalleled outrage, but no
arrests were made for some time. Later
on however, suspected parties were cap
tured and were imprisoned in the
Mauch Chunk Jail, but as this was be- |
fore Mollie Maguireism had received its
death blow a mob surrounded the Jail |
one night and released the prisoners.
The murder of Smith had almost
been forgotten in the long series of
similar outrages that followed 1t and it
was not until number of the Mollies
bad met death on the tcaffold that, on
Christmas eve of 1877, Charles Sharpe
aud James Mcdonnell and Thomas
Durkin we're arrested, and in January
1878, they were indicted for the muir
der of Smith. Mcdonnell was found
BY Detective Gilchrist hiding in an un-
frequent corner of Illinois. The "Hairy
Man. had been a prominent man in
The Mollie Mcguire order, and at the
meeting of the famous "Iuquisition of
Ten," where Jack Kehoe, after prayer
ordered the murder of William NJ.
Thomas and William and Jesse Major,
Kehoe said he knew of good man for
. L" clean job" and then and there
the "Hairy Man," as worthy
If taking part in the killing of the Ma
or brothers. Sharpe and McDonnel!
we're convicted in April, mainly upon
he evidence of three well-known muir
lerers and "squealers" "-''Li:tle Jim
ny" Kerrigan, Charles Mulhearn and
Daniel Kelly, alias "Manus Kull."
'lias "Kelly, the Bum," Everything
vas resorted to save the men from the
,allows. Governor Hartranft ordered
heir execution for December Is, the
lay that Jack Kehoe was hung, but
hey we're respited in order that the
Board of Pardens might pass upon the