The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-08-17
MoIL,E MAGurREs.
Eight Men Arrested by Pinkerton De-
tcssGvcs-H How the Case was Work.
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b. q O. train, which brought up
from Dunbar an officer in charge OF
John Kane, of that place, charged
with con,plicity in the murder OF
Maurice iIealy. He was arrested
at Youngstown, short distance
from Dunbar, 1T an early hour
this morning. The excitement was
soon increased by the news that the
next train would bring up number
of others, on the same charge. Ac.
cordingly four more came on the
1880 train, accompanied by r. j.
Lincoln, on whose information the
arrests were made, and w. c. Nc
Cormick and Frank Stevens, of this
place. The names of the four are
James Mcfarland, Pat Dolan, Jas.
Regan, and John Collins. McFar-
land is young, boyish looking fell
low, being but 10 years old. He is
a son of Pat Mcfarland, the hotel
keeper in Dunbar, who was a bitter
enemy of Healy on account of the
active part the letter took in defeat
ing his application for hotel license.
The other prisoners are miners, and
were arrested in the different mines
around Dunbar. They were taken
right out of the mines and brought
to Uniontown with their mining
clothes on and their little lamps in
their hats.
EXCITEMENT AT THE DEPOT.
The word came that there were
still three men at large, who would
probably be arrested to-day. This
caused an excited crowd to gather
around the B. & o. depot when the
next train came in, which was at
1923 in the forenoon. On this
train came two more men, who had
also been subsequently arrested in
the mines near Dunbar. Their names
are Mike Dolan and Mark Donahue.
They were also brought up in their
working clothes. The detectives
are yet on the track of Bernard
Flood, who will probably be taken
up soon. This will make eight men
arrested on the charge of numbering
Maurice Healy, foundryman at Dun
bar Furnace, on the evening of Sun
day, June 26. How many and who
of these men are guilty of commit
ting the deed, and who of them are
accessory to the act, is yet to be
made known. The detectives have
been following up clues in quiet
way ever since the murder, and
they believe they have the right
parties now under arrest. In "a
hours after the murder was COM
mitted the Pinkerton agency had
their detectives on the ground, and
they have never relaxed their search
until it eliminated to-day in the ar
rest of the parties who had so long
and so mysteriously covered up their
tracks.
LATER-THE EIGHTH MAN ARRESTED.
The eighth and last one of the
Healy murderers, for whom warrants
were issued, last night was arrested
in Dunbar and brought here at
Z o'clock this evening. The hearing
of the men was deferred until all
the arrests were made by order of
Chief Linden. The hearing will
be held soon; meanwhile the chief
evidence on which the arrests We're
made is kept secret.
Three or four of the Pinkerton
detectives engaged work in the coal
mines as common miners, and it
was through their investigations
and the confidence they gained
among the miners that the infor-
were made. The detectives
who worked up the case, it is un-
derstood, are still keeping in the
background, for some reason
WORKING Up THE CASE.
Your correspondent had q talk
with Detective Linden as regards
his method of working up the case.
after the commission of the
OF Healey, when it became
evident that the dastardly deed had
been committed by members of the
infamous order of MolIie Maguires,
and when it was found that the To-
cal authorities would not likely be
successful in ferreting out the guilty
parties, Major De Saulle and others
of the Dunbar Furnace Company,
in whose employ Healey was, tele-
graphed to Pinkerton's Detective
Agency at Chicago asking them to
instantly send on one OF their best
men to work up the case. In har-
mony with this dispatch Colonel
Linden who is considered to he one
Of the most skilled detectives in
the employ of the famous agency
came to Pittsburg and met the rep
of the Dunbar Furnace
Company and was posted in the
details of the case. Colonel Linden
and two men then procured rough
miners suits and tools and costum-
ed themselves in way that would
have convinced the closest observer
that they were simple, unsophisti-
Gated coal miners. They then went
up to Fayette county and secured
work in the mines. The detectives
who had profted by the knowledge
picked up by their conferees who
hunted down the Mollie Mcguire
lewis in the anthracite coal regions
and it might be added Just here
hat Colonel Linden was the main
spring behind the detectives working
II those cases-in manner that
would not cause suspicion, sought
,ut such of the miners who were
said to be in the order and ingratia-
ed themselves in their confidence.
In some instances they were only
lble to pick up stray word or
sentence, but every little point, no
natter how insignificant which bore |
IN the case, was woven into the
web which eventually resulted in
he ENHANCEMENT of the assassins.
On one or two occasions, the detect
YES CLEANED many points of import
lnce, by plying several of the min
RS with liquor, and when whisky |
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