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The Great Mollie Maguire trials : in Carbon and Schuylkill counties, Pa., brief reference to such trials, and arguments of Gen. Charles Albright and Hon. F.W. Hughes, in the case of the commonwealth vs. James Carroll, James Roarity, Hugh McGehan and James Boyle, indicted for the murder of Benjamin F. Yost, chief of police of and at Tamaqua, July 6, 1876, in the Oyer and terminer of Schuylkill County.
Author
Albright, Charles. Carroll, James. Roarty, James. McGehan, Hugh. Boyle, James.
Date Added
11 January 2014
Language
English
Publish Date
1876
Publisher
Pottsville : Chronicle Book and Job Rooms
Source
ACHS Historic Papers Molly Maguires
Topic
Molly Maguires (Organization). Coal miners > Pennsylvania. Irish > Pennsylvania. Carroll, James, > d. 1877 > Trials, litigation, etc. Yost, Benjamin F., > d.1875 Trials (Murder) > Pennsylvania > Schuylkill County.
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fense seonttet Wee cones and yet how rarely does such an of-
Ctectives by the enn 1S: ' is by reason of the employment of
“partment have os ment 1e special agents of the Postoffice
send a letter f, a detective system of their own. For instance, you
robberies of the naere oe Reading, and it is alleged that there are
and Reading. WI} ‘ in the transmission of letters between this point
office at R S iether it occurs by the mail carrier or in the post-
ere, becaus, up hi not known. It might be known that it was not
Were mailed he ee occur after it was known that the letters
whether the mal hat is the system to find out to a certainty
agent will e ails are robbed, and where and by whom? A special
Which he will di rere and placea ten dollar counterfeit bill ina letter
sumed name direct to a fictitious person, or a person by some as-
this postofiie in Reading, and he will send that letter by mail through
ceive dat R ce Then he ascertains whether, that letter has been re
the lette caaing. Ifit is not received at Reading then he knows that
ing, or t h lost.either by the carrier between here and Read-
ing. and | the postoflice at Reading. Then he goes below Read-
ter reaches sends a letter up to Reading, and he.finds that that let-
Then he ke the one to whom it is addressed at Reading safely.
mails with Nows it is not the postoffice at Reading that is rifling the
etwee 4 a reasonable degree of certainty, and that it is somewhere
think th; tere and. Reading, assuming such a thing possible. I-do not
the maile 1S possible as the postoftice here is now. conducted, and
detectiy S carried, but I use this by way of illustration. . This is.the
wh lve system of the Postoffice Department,.and thus it finds out
a rifles the mails.
Lou ast im regard to the exposure of the Whisky. Ring at St.
ernment ; e frauds upon the revenue generally? Why, the Gov-
ployed of the United States has. at its hand a-fund which is em-
these F for the purpose of paying detectives for the discovery. of
ernm rauds. They are.a.regular portion of the police of the Gov-
uphold.” and constantly employed. The Government that we all
My frie maintain and sustain, adopts this system as a proper system.
ive, tiend, Mr. Ryon thought no. good could come out of a detect-
vo Has he forgotten that great.detective in the State of New:
ork that exposed the Tweed ring ?
Mr, Ryon.—tThat was Tilden,
Hy Mr, Hughes.—That was Samuel J. Tilden, .the great. detective of
le State of New York. ;
nd you are against: him.
.Mr. Ryon.—I am for him this time a
Mr, Hughes.—My friend says he is for Tilden, to send him to the
White House at Washington, while he would send McParlan to Fort
?eyerly across the way, to that gray stone house.
Surarg2.what a difference there should be
"Txt tweedledum and tweedledee.