Bisbee daily review., 1907-07-07
M'PARTLAND IS A MAN WITH A
 RECORD
Haywood Not Cleared Yet By a Great Great Deal, As Fa- nous Detective Saw and Heard Muchp in Disguise,

CHICAGO, July CT attribute Or chard's confession to the great brain of James Mcfarland, who has been employed by the State to run down the | murderers of former Governor Steu nenberg.
 Nothing could be more certain than | that Governor Gooding, os Idaho, ID paving this tribute to tine old detec- | tive who wormed his T:sy into the secrets of the Inner Circle" If the Western Federation of Miners, was we'll within the facts.
 It unquestionably was James Me Partland who did it, the same McPart' Iandwho. as James McKenna, poined the Molly Maguires in. PeEGsy lvania more than thirty years ago and put them out of business.
 A generation has passed since then, and little has been heard of McPart- land in the meantime. Many thought that he had died. Others said that he was living a life of retirement some where. broken and enfeebled by his experiences among the Mollies and ut terly unfitted for further work.
 But they were all mistaken. AS superintendent of the Western branch of the PinkertOn Detective Agency Mcfarland has been working steadily at his trade ever since his great triumph of the early seventies. It was as a Pinkerton that he went into the anthracite district of Pennsylvania in 1873. and it was as Pinkerton that he donned miners togS once more, year or two ago, and started after the Tn ner Circle of the Western Federation of Miners.
 Thrillers like "Hawkshaw, the De tective,'' and analytical fiction like Sherlock Holmes" are tame reading in comparison to the deeds of James Nc Partland It is easy enough for man who sets up a plot to pick 1t to pieces again. Sherlock Holmes never undid anything that hadn't been done expressly for his benefit. The dice were never loaded in that way for Me Partland. The problems he had to solve were all handed to him ready made and dramatically sealed. In the history of sleuthing, McPart- land is entitled to be handed down to posterity as one of the greatest detec- tives who ever lived. Single-handed, he has done what whole armies have failed to do.
 When Pennsylvania was in a panic l because of the murder and lawlessness Iof the Molly Magauires, and later, when the "Iinner Circle" of the West l ern Federation of Miners was defying all the efforts of the authorities to put stop to it's depredatiOns, this 3 | feet. s inches of ITishman Stepped in | and blew up the whole shebang with out firing a shot.
 He has been a,greater influence for law and order in the State of Pennsyl- | vania than the State cOnstabulary could obtain in a thousand years. He
 is a ferret who can find his way into
 any den of crooks and send them
 sCamperinc.
 | James Mcfarland was born in the
 County of Armagh. Province of Uul ster, Parish of Mulla brack, Ireland, in 1S44, which would make him 63 years old now. He came to America two
 years after the close of the Civil War
 making his home in Chicago.
 His first employment was as team
 ster. and then he drove a mail wagon
 After that he was a deck hand on (
 lake boat. and still later he was chop | ping wood in the Michigan forests. When the numbering season was over he returned to Chicago and got {
  cy. He liked the work, and was grad uated from the agency to the Chicago police force, which he didn't like sC well. In two months he resigned tC go into the liquor business.
 Mcfarland had a saloon at No 349 Canal street, and was doing flourishing business, for he had tn happy faculty of getting in with thu boys" He could sing a good song dance a good jig, tell good story ant laugh uproariously at the jokes other told.
 Then the Chicago fire came aloni
 and wiped out his business. He coul
 not raise the money for a fresh start
 so he joined the Pinkertons. The dis tinguished chief of that agency, Allal
 Pinkerton, the great spy of the Civi l War, took a fancy to Mcfarland tn
 first time he saw him and gave hiI
 every opportunity to show what wa
 in him, opportunities which the It
 lcruit never threw away.
 t1 By the time the Molly Maguires al
 tafned the height of their notoriet
 in Pennsylvania, Mcfarland was rel = ogniZei as one of the most yaluabl , men in the agency.
 Franklin B. Gowen, the man wh built the palatial brown mansion tha now stands gaunt and dismantled ] a great dump of ashes and tin can. hard by the Midvale Steel Works, va then president of the Philadelphia I Reading Railway company. He Wa I also head of the Pennsylvania an l Reading Coal and Iron company.