Bisbee daily review., 1907-07-07

were in constant fear of their lives, and so were its executives.
 If foreman or superintendent of. fended he would be shot down by hidden assassin on his way to or t:om work Mayors and Burgesses Of towns in the mining district were afraid to do anything that would Un- tagonize the Molly Maguares. The very name of the bandits was spoken with bated breath.
 Miners who had incurred khsir en- mity were sure to meet a speedy death. A pick would fall on tten: there would be a premature explosion of dynamite in the locality where they were working, or a cage would drop.
 In the rare instances where arrests were made the authorities could not get sufficient evidence to bring about a conviction. Men were afraid to tes- tify. jurors were afraid to return yer diets of guilty and judges were timid about appearing too impartial.
 The officials were utterly incompe- tent to cope with the situation. They knew very little about the Molly Ma guires, and they did not dare "a make use of what they did know.
 What was to be done? Mr. Gowen decided to call on the PiRkertCns. Allan Pinkerton picked James Mozart land for the work, not onlv hecaue he thought he had the necessary qual- ifications, but also because he was a stranger in Pennsylvania.
 Late in the summer Of 1879 M1P9It- land arrived iR Philadelphia and he- gan to make his plans. Togging him self out as a wanderer in hard luck, he took a train for Port Clinton, ar irving at ? o'clock in the mOrlin2. The only place open was village tavern, and he went in.
 Everybody in the place was iHioTi- cated. and Mcfarland was .hrngu out on his head He went to a railway | boarding house, and the next day got job running a mine train. He d:a 1l more bad whisky than any3oly else, swore more oaths, told more filthy stories, cursed the constituted author | ities more roundly.
 To the Mollies he seemed a yalua!ile | acquisition. and they welcomed him with open arms. He became the sec retary of their local branch. got their signs and passwords, but day by day l
 quarters, warning some man who had l been marked for destruction. He car ried his stamps in his bootleg. aud
 when he could not get ink without cx- citing suspicion he used his landlady's s | bluing or plain soot and water.
 All the while he was making himself
 so conspicuous in the doings of the i N0llies that the police themSelves
 were trying to capture him. He drank l like a toper. quarreIed with everybody. | and on one occasion led a mob against
 a cOlliery, where his own friends were
 waiting with Winchesters.
 l At last the end came, and none too
 soon for the detective, whose health | had been shattered by exposure, hard ships and gallons of vile whisky. Elev.
 en of the Mollies were hanged for mur der. When the bandits heard that their own valued James McKenna was in reality Jas. Mcfarland. detective
 they threatened to blow him up witt dynamite if he dared to go on the witness stand. but he went just the
 same. and it was his testimony tha hanged them.
 Many others were sent to Jail, anC
 those who escaped fled the country never to return.
 Mcfarland was the hero of Penn
 syIvania. He might well have restet
 on his laurels, but he went on working , Thirty years later, it was to him tha
 when they felt their governmen crumbling under the depredatiOns o ; the Inner Circle" A cage filled witt , miners was dropped 1.4O0 feet dow
 the Independence shaft. Nineteel
 nOn-Union men were blown up at tn . Independence station and the clima
 came when former Governor SteuneI , berg was assassinated with a bonn of the very threshold of his home i
 Caldwell, Idaho, because when he wa 5 in power he had tried to preserve laI ! and order Two previous attempts ha - been made on his life.
 F Old as he was Mcfarland did nc 3 hesitate. He became a miner agaiI 9 followed the same dangerous tactic 3 he had followed in Pennsylvania an
 wormed his way into all the secrets C }. the dreaded inner circle. He traced twenty-six murders, ant when he had everything just as h wanted 1t the trap was sprung. O {, chard was arrested and when he ha
 l ldiAeu "lIH hCfdFIlduQ TUT dn hOl or two, learning that the dectectiy
 knew his dark history like a book, h confessed, and that confession is th most appalling story of crime eyt printed.
 Officers of the Western Federatio D of Miners were arrested on the ey Il dence that Mcfarland had obtaine e and it is probable that before the tri n is over he will take the stand himsel s when 1t is probable that he will giy e testimony quite as sensational as tn;
 in the Molly Mcguire cases t- T would not say one thing again y these men that is not so," he declare D. the other day, because I value n e reputation too highly to indulge
 that kind of buster I am just 0 careful of the rights and privileges It these men accused of crime as wou II be of any other. I am just as caref ,, of their legal rights-perhaps mo IS so-than their own attorneys. It & highly important that they should ls protected in every way and convict, d fairly by fairminded jury"