Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-01-03
Windsor,

Windsor.
ATTEMPTED MURDER.-The devilisl
career of the gang of young ruffians
called the Molly Maguires has at las
eliminated as has long been expected
in the stabbing Of young, inoffensive
man named Henry Darrell. 1t has
long been the custom of the gang tc
get together and assault almost any
one who came from out of the village.
Henry Darrell has been at work for
Harrison Marcy, in the 9th district,
and is peaceable, inotfensive citizen,
and general favorite with every one
who knows him. This is the third
time he has been set upon by the
roughs, but has escaped uninjured I'M
til last Saturday night, when the gang
found that he was in the village and
assembled to the number of about a
dozen, for the avowed purpose of fix
ing him. 1t seems that he was in a
store and the gang sent in u small boy
to tell him that some one out of doors
wanted!to see him. On going out he
was struck over the head with. bottle
by Bill Gallagher, one of the ring lead
ers, and was Immediately set upon by
the rest. Seeing that he stood no
chance with them he started to run,
and got across the street near Law
rence's restaurant, when he was over
taken by the whole crowd and knocked
down and kicked, and finally stabbed
in the back seven times with knife or
knives--it is supposed by Bill and
Frank Gallaghcr--amid cries of kill
the d--n son of b-h. lie fell to the
ground and cried murder, help, several
times, and the inhuman devils contin-
ued to kick him until he was pushed
through low window into the restau-
rant, falling OIL his back on to the
floor. Mr.. l.. b. Poole was one of
the first attracted by his cries, and
rushed to his assistance, and himself
received a knife wound over his left
eye about two inches long. The wound
was from half way up the forehead
downward, cutting the eyebrow in
two and was sewed up by a surgeon
After falling into the saloon Darrell
was assisted to chair and his clothing
removed, when two deep wounds were
found near the small of the back, and
another in the shoulder, penetrating
the lung together with one or two
slight cuts in other places. He was
removed to the Windsor House where
DR.. Morse sewed up the two lower
wounds, but deemed it inadvisablc to
close the one lnjuring the lung. He
considered his case desperate, if not
hopeless, and at BARRELS request he
was taken home on bed in the bot
tom Of q sleigh. The scene of the af-
fray Sunday morning WINS examined
by crowd of the curious, splashes Of
blood on The side of the building and
Oh the ground were closely examined
and commented upon, and fragments
of empty whiskey bottles were scat
tered upon the ground, and if the
"Mollys" could have heard the re-
marks of the assembled crowd they
would have trembled for their own
safety. The continued insulting of
ladies and inotfensive persons by the
roughs, have long been the SUBJECT Of
comment, aud this affair has evidently
succeeded in arousing the public to a
proper sense of the awful danger they
hnyo hnen Suhiected m for thn nost tuo
Or three years, and the town authori.
ties are certainly censurable for allow
ing this state of affairs to continue SO
long. Sunday evening the following
arrests were made: Bill and Frank
Gallagher, John and Frank DIETER
known as "Skin") McClinton, Ed.
Gofney, Geo. Fields, and u fellow
named Lockney.