The Molly Maguires Trials

Pennsylvania's 'Molly Maguires': Irish Terrorists or Christian Martyrs?

At the height of the Pennsylvania trials the Philadelphia Times ran a column that included this statement: “The constitution book, it is ...

The Molly Maguires: The Secret Society's History Explained - Grunge

The Molly Maguires face a sham trial. Franklin B. Gowen portrait ... trials, and the other prosecuting attorneys worked for railroads and mining ...

PENNSYLVANIA'S "MOLLY MAGUIRES" - From John Kehoe's Cell

The so-called “Molly Maguire” trials and executions in northeastern Pennsylvania's anthracite counties had convulsed the region.

The Molly Maguires | Cards, the Universe and Everything Wiki

John Lavelle, writing in 1994, described it as follows: The Molly Maguire trials were a surrender of state sovereignty. A private corporation initiated the ...

The Molly Maguires in the Anthracite Region of Pennsylvania - jstor

Despite the large number of murders by Molly Maguires from. I865 to I875 there were few arrests, few trials, and never a convic- tion for murder in the first ...

The Molly Maguires | The Irish Story

To some Irish – Americans, the Molly Maguires Trials represented the epitome of a bigoted, nativist system that was prejudiced against ...

The Molly Maguires (film) - Wikipedia

The Molly Maguires is a 1970 American historical drama film directed by Martin Ritt, starring Sean Connery and Richard Harris. It is based on the 1964 book ...

“No one dares to push them around” – The story of The Molly Maguires

Gowen. “…print the legend”. Court cases attributed 16 deaths to the Molly Maguires. The first was a mine foreman beaten to death in 1862, the ...

Defining the Molly Maguires: A Modern Historiography - Academia.edu

Such sentiments can be found in the American Law Review's 1877 article “The Molly Maguire Trials” by John T. Morse Jr. In talking about how Mr. L'Velle, the ...

Miners And Murder; LAMENT FOR THE MOLLY MAGUIRES. By ...

As special prosecutor, he convicted and hanged 20 Irishmen, chiefly on the evidence of McParian. In his brilliant and dramatic speech at the first trial, he ...

The Molly Maguires. : The origin, growth, and character of the ...

• First trial of the Yost murderers, more arrests • Molly plots, trial of Alec Campbell, trial of Thomas Munley, second trial of the Yost murderers • The ...

Making Sense of the Molly Maguires with Kevin Kenny - YouTube

... the Molly Maguires and other materials related to the Molly Maguire trials. In support of his work, Kenny received funding from the Center ...

The Molly Maguires and the Detectives. - DiVA portal

agency during the Molly Maguire trials, as well as the character of the surviving evidence. ... different interpretations of the Molly Maguires ...

Violence in the Coal Region and the Molly Maguire conspiracy theory

The theory held that a shadowy organization known as the Molly Maguires ... trial. More than 20 were executed by the close of the decade. Here ...

Coffin Notice 1875 - ieg-ego.eu

Coffin Notice, print of a drawing, 1875, unknown author; image source: Douglas O. Linder: Famous Trials: The Molly Maguires, https://famous-trials.com/maguire/ ...

THE MOLLY MAGUIRE FILES

"The trial at Mauch Chunk was attended by all the celebrities of the Carbon County bar." As depicted in Allan Pinkerton's The Molly. Maguires and the Detectives ...

Making Sense of the Molly Maguires by Kevin Kenny (review)

McParlan's espionage culminated in the murder convictions oftwenty Irish-born Mollys after a series of trials that drew protracted national ...

Pass To The 1878 Execution Of Three Molly Maguires. One page, 3.75

The murder remained a mystery until 1876, when Patrick Hester, Patrick Tully, and Peter McHugh were implicated for the crime. The trial was quickly labeled a ...

The Molly Maguires (1970) - User reviews - IMDb

When Gowen first hired the Pinkerton agency, he had claimed the Molly Maguires were so powerful they had made capital and labor "their puppets". When the trials ...

Mollies' Ghosts Still Haunt Mining Towns

The book, "A Molly Maguire Story," was instrumental in developing the mock trial. The make-believe Alexander Campbell, played by his great-grand-nephew J. Brian ...