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The all absorbing topic in this section is the approaching trial of the Molly Maguire murderers of John P. Jones, mine boss of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company, at Lansford, a short ...
Who were the Molly Maguires? Learn about this violent secret ... Irish mineworker from Pennsylvania who'd assassinated a coal mine official came to New York City on a strange mission.
“Beware of the Molly Maguires.” Joseph Wayne ... Plans are to develop part of it as a coal miner’s museum. Kehoe professed his innocence in a letter written from the “Pottsville Prison ...
Irresistible curiosity motivated Edward Gallagher to research and publish a book on his personal family history associated with the Molly Maguires. Gallagher, a retired professor of English at Lehigh ...
Set in 1877 in the coal fields of Pennsylvania, The Molly Maguires is the tale of a secret society of immigrant Irish mine workers who fight against prejudice and injustice in the mining industry.