Publisher's Synopsis
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. 1877 edition. Excerpt: ...without inquiring into minute particulars. For him to have manifested curiosity would have been to arouse suspicion, so that of necessity he was compelled to await developments and take the chances of gaining more accurate information. The fact was, that the man to be murdered was Thomas Sanger, and that this murder, with some others never attempted, had been in contemplation for some time. Sanger was a man of good character and of an amiable disposition. He was between thirty and forty years of age, enjoying the esteem and confidence of S. M. Heaton & Co., at whose colliery at Raven's Run he was employed as a boss. He was not known to have an enemy in the world; but it was afterwards ascertained that, by reason of some act done in the pursuit of his duty, he acquired the ill will of some of the " Mollies," and his death was determined upon. The year previous (1874) Bucky Donnelly took the matter in hand, pointed out Thomas Sanger to Patrick Butler, and said that he wanted him killed. At another interview with Butler, when a man named Patrick Shaw was present, he proposed that the two should commit the act. For some reason they never made the attempt. For the purpose of showing the difficulties which beset the path of McKenna, and of illustrating not only with what readiness a murder would be conceived, but also how readily it would be abandoned, --in short, the little account in which human life was held, --several incidents in the history of Patrick Butler may here be given. Patrick Butler, who will be remembered as being on the committee with McKenna to decide to whom belonged the credit of having murdered Gomer James, is a young man who joined the order in August, 1873. He joined the Raven's Run Division, of which Bucky...
