The sun., 1919-05-25

were hail, plenty Of money for counsel
fees. plenty OF influence on the bench
to save him. Not conviction could
De obtained and the terror went on
undated. How could the authorities
stop 1t when In the offices of the
towns and State were seated members
OF the society duly elected? Owners
OF mines, their superlntendents, their
gang bosses were killed whenever Il
pleased the Masulres to take them of.
Men were dubbed 10 death In the
presence OF their wives and children,
houses were burned while families
slept in them, mines were blown UP.
elevators were dropped by accident"
picks fell In deadly way, also by ac-
cident. The horrors were OF daily
occurrence. The Molly Magures held
a firm control OF property and life
and death was melted remorselessly
to the men'who dared TO oppose them.
The Stranger at Port Clinton.
One night in 1879 a common looking
man swung himself of a train in the
station at Fort Clinton, Pa lie was
dressed a little better than a tramp;
he carried his luggage In a bag over
his shoulder; he was evidently mi.
ner out of luck, This man when he
was asked his name replied that II was
James McKenra.
Tramping away from the little sta
ton Mckenna went to the village tav-
ern and asked to be kept for the night.
Instead the drunken landlord and his
drunken companions from the mines
knocked him down, sought through
his luggage for money in vain and
then threw him out. He found shelter
in railway boarding house and his
| treatment by the miners. rough and
scurvy as IL was, getting noised about
served as his best credential. II the
tramp was what he seemed he could
not be an enemy Of the Maguires. ,
Thus 1t was easy for James Me-
Kenna. alias James Mcfarland. to be-
come a member or the society. He
was bf the proper material to make
| one OF the, members OF IL, desperate,
down and out men, who feared neither
God nor devil.
Mckenna got Job running train
in the mines and he learned to use a
! pick for defensive and Offensive pur-
poses. He was q good fellow. He
liked to get drunk. Oh. the vile
| whiskey that poor .actarland was
| forced to swallow to live up to his
| part, He could tell good story. He
could dance an Irish jig. The Maguires
did not wait for him to seek them,
they sought him.
Pat" Dormer. an 1rishman and an
officer of the Masuires. kept a saloon
at Pottsville, and he stood as a good
TREND to the stranger McKenna. He
was asked to attend the wedding Of
| Dormer's sister. and Dormer began to
initiate him into the secrets of the So
cfety, that blootned here as Il newer did
on TIE "ould sod"
| Dormer sent McKenna to "Muft''
! LAWYER, of the society In ,Shen-
4 5ndoHh. %fio took him in as boa rider
l and finally initiated him with the
! gang He was elected secretary OF
that local little afterward and told TO
tramp through the mining districts to
yhelp the common cause. In this way
he became intimate with most OF the
Mcguire leaders, including Jack Kehoc
and yellow" Jack Donahue. both Of
whom suffered the final penalty OF this
innocuous intimacy.
| Mckenna's popularity grew. The
Maguires wondered how they ever got
on before such a resourceful man came
to help their schemes. He led the
fights; he conducted gang OF GOLFERS
to place where detectives were in
ambush to get n gang of Maguires
and helped put the lswkeepcrs to
night; he did everything to appear
as stanch and trusty friend of the
downtrodden but revengeful working
man.
And every day this friend of the
Maguires, this local agent, this leader