Author: Charles Albright

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 9781230275505

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ... Ik Your Honors Please, And Gentlemen Of The Jury.--It is now very nearly three o'clock, but I propose to go on with my remarks to you, rather than have an adjournment, and probably the case go over to' next week. You, the counsel, and the Court are anxious to bring this trial to a conclusion as soon as may be possible, and, therefore, I shall present such argument as I may be able, before the Court rises this afternoon. You have learned during this trial that there is and has been an organization which has been a terror to this community, which has imperiled life all over the coal region, and which for many years has perpetrated crimes, and has been able to escape punishment. It has performed its work secretly and clandestinely, but very successfully and powerfully. Men were murdered, property was destroyed, lives were threatened, and all kinds of violence and outrage have been committed in this and adjoining counties, and the offenders have escaped trial and punishment. Thisjvas owing to the fact of the organization being oath-bound, with a view of shielding the guilty. The members of it committed crime not as people usually do who have any grievances to avenge. The man who had a supposed wrong to avenge did not seek redress directly himself, but rather through the agencies and power of the organization known as the Mollie Maguires. He could make a requisition upon an adjoining division to the one in which he lived or belonged, and demand that men should be furnished to commit the crime that he desired perpetrated. The men committing the crime were usually strangers to the person to be injured; the crime was committed, and the guilty escaped. Nobody knew, or could be found who knew anything about it; the bloody work was done in...