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

xi, 380 pages : 19 cm Includes bibliographical references The Molly Maguires in Ireland and the United States -- The anthracite coal regions of Pennsylvania -- Relation of the labor union and the Molly Maguire, the Molly Maguire political and otherwise -- Societies in Ireland and America -- Carbon and Schuylkill counties, 1861 to 1865 -- Schuylkill, Columbia, and Carbon counties, 1866 to 1871 -- Coal-mining companies, the Pinkerton agency -- McParlan the detective -- McParlan, continued -- The Ancient Order of Hibernians -- The long strike, McParlan, continued -- The long strike, continued, the major murder, Mahanoy City Convention -- Attempted assassination of William M. Thomas -- Meeting in the bush, the majors, John J. Slattery -- The murder of policeman Yost -- McParlan at work, the murder of Gomer James -- Jack Kehoe, murder of Gwither, attempted murder of Riles -- Tamaqua Convention, who murdered Gomer James?, Sanger murder arranged, Patrick Butler -- Murder of Sanger and Uren, McParlan on a committee to murder Jones, murder of Jones by other parties, flight of the assassins -- Arrest of Kerrigan, Doyle, and Kelly, their lives threatened -- The Molly as a politician, the election of 1875 -- The autumn of 1875, waiting for the trials -- The trial of Doyle, confession of Kerrigan -- Arrests of Molly Maguires, McParlan suspected -- McParlan's dangers, and his escape -- Kerrigan the informer, the trial of Kelly, preparations for the Yost trial -- 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 conspiracy cases, trial of Duffy -- Trials of "Mollies", the Sheet-iron gang, Jackson's patch, wholesale confessions, sentences -- The murder of Morgan Powell. trial of Yellow Jack Donahue -- Trials contrasted, the Catholic Church, has the end come?