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Argument of Franklin B. Gowen, Esq., of counsel for the Commonwealth : in the case of the Commonwealth vs. Thomas Munley, indicted in the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Schuylkill County, Pa., for the murder of Thomas Sanger, a mining boss, at Raven Run, on September 1st, 1873.
Author
Gowen, Franklin B.
Date Added
11 January 2014
Language
English
Publish Date
1876
Publisher
Pottsville, Pa. : Miners' Journal and Job Rooms.
Source
ACHS Historic Papers Lloyd Family.
Topic
Molly Maguires (Organization). Sanger, Thomas. Munley, Thomas.
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fellow well met” with them, and he invites them to join him in
a carouse, and offers to send his page for wine. The outlaws
hear it, and consent, and he says to his page: “ Bring me
the wine—the blood red wine, marked 100.” The page departs,
well knowing that the message refers not to wine but toa company
of soldiers numbering 100, and wearing a red uniform. After
breathless suspense the page returns, and in answer to the frantic
demand, “The wine, boy, the wine !” answers : “Coming sir,” and
the tramp of armed men is heard. Then the entrapped man grows .
bold. He pulls one outlaw by the nose, and cuffs another on the
ear, and the soldiers enter and march them off to jail. So it was
with us when McParlan came upon the stand. He was the blood
red wine marked 100. Then we knew we were free men. Then
we cared no longer for the Mollie Maguires. Then we could go to
Patsy Collins, the Commissioner of this couuty, and say to him,
“build well the walls of the new addition of the prison; dig the
foundations deep and make them strong; put in good masonry and
iron bars, for, as the Lord liveth, the time will come when side by -
side with William Love, the murderer of Squire Gwither, you will
enter the walls that you are now building for others.” Then we
could say to Jack Kehoe, the high constable of a grea tborough in
this county, “We have no fear of you.” Then we could say to
Ned Monaghan, chief of police, and murderer and assassin :
‘Behind you the scaffold is prepared for your reception.” Then’
Wwe could say to Pat Conry, Commissioner of this county, “The
time has ceased when a Governor of this State dare to pardon a
Mollie Maguire; you have had your last pardon.” . Then we could
say to John Slattery, who was almost elected Judge of this Court :
‘We know that of you that it were better you had not been born
than that it should be known.” Then all of us looked up. Then,
at last, we were free, and I came to this county and walked
through it as safely as in the most crowded thoroughfares of Phila-
delphia.
There is one other dramatic illustration which I remember and to
Which I cannot help adverting to, as it so clearly paints the scene
which has been enacted so lately in this county. It occurs in Bul-
Wer’s drama of Richelieu. You. remember that Richelieu, the
Prime Minister of Louis XIII, was threatened bya secret conspi-
racy, led by a great nobleman, dramatized as De Baradas, and
headed in the army by the very brother of the King himself. You
will remember that the statesman, realizing that his power over the
ing was gone, and that the conspirators had acquired absolute
control over the mind of the monarch, set a page upon the track to
discover the evidence of the conspiracy, so that he could lay it be-
fore the Monarch in the presence ofthe conspirators themselves,
You will also remember, if you have read the drama, the thrilling
description of the manner in which the page at the point of the