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Show " 'I'; ' "C' ln t::!q - :rry Under the caption, "The Infamous McParland." the Irish World animadverts animad-verts as follows upon the record of Detective De-tective James McParland of Denver, who has been In charge of the Investigations Investi-gations in the Bteunenberg assassination assassina-tion case that have led to the arrest and Indictment of the 'Western Federation Federa-tion bfflclals. Moyer, Haywood aad Pet-tlbone: Pet-tlbone: , - V "McParland seems to have been fitted by nature for the criminal work he engaged en-gaged in. It Is some thirty odd years since he made his first appearance in Pennsylvania under the assumed name of McKenna. in a two-and-a-half-column article which the New York Sun devotes to him we And the reason for his going to Pennsylvania thus stated: ' " 'He Joined the Ptnkerton. detective forces in 1872. When arrangements were made with that agency by Franklin Frank-lin B. Gowan on behalf of the Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania & Reading Coal and .Iron company to undermine the Mollle Ma-guires, Ma-guires, McParland was selected as the oaerator.' v. "In this " way -McParland was launched upon his career of crime inciter. in-citer. His role was that of a rollicking,, rollick-ing,, reckless iesperado, who was always al-ways ready to applaud any act of violence. vio-lence. He gave out that be was a member of the A. O. H. In Buffalo, who had klUed a man In a fight and had sought safety in flight His lying assertion as-sertion in regard to his being a member mem-ber of the A. O. H. nearly brought him Into serious trouble, as is thus told In the newspaper article from . which we have already quoted: , 'A member of . the . A. O. H. . not friendly to he detective began to question ques-tion hinr about the ritual of the organization. organ-ization. McParland pretended to be drunk, and Anally rolled to the floor as if , tn a stupor. .- - it was finally decided that he was really drunk and was not accountable for what he said. All the time he v.s listening, and he hoard enough about the Inner "workings of the A. O. H.-to become familiar with theltitles of the officers.' ' "If the truth was known. It would be revealed that he, by his incitements, was morally. If not legally, guilty of the crimes for the detection of which he received blood money- frm hla paymasters. Hs always took good care not to expose himself to the risk in-cMent in-cMent to act that he wan in the nnhit of applauding. How he succeeded in doing this is .thus told In the New York Evening Post article:- " 'To 3ave himself from being deputed de-puted to remove an objectionable mine boss or other official, he deliberately acquired the reputation of being i a drunkard, who had no physical or moral capacity to withstand the effects ef-fects of the wee poteen. Fever frequently fre-quently laid him low,, and he lost his hair and substituted a disreputable-looking disreputable-looking wig for it. His constitution was severely shaken, but.be stuck 'to the Job and sang, danced drank, and fought whenever necessary. He was the pet of the Mollle Maguires, and all the time lists of members and notices of plota against life and property were constantly going east by mail.' ; i The article from which we have Just quoted furnishes convincing . evidence of the part McParland took In stirring up Pennsylvania ; miners to lawless acts. We have this picture of his leading lead-ing a mob of striking miners: , . "'McKenua (McParland) helped ito lead a mob against the West Shenandoah Shenan-doah colliery, where was a fore of armed police, and the secretary of the Mollies (McParland) was In Imminent danger of being shot down by his own people (Plnkertons), some of whom lie knew, and the commander of whom knew him. There were sixteen bullets in every rifle, arid McKenna (McParland) (McPar-land) suggested to his pals that "twenty "twen-ty times sixteen wur three hundred an twenty, an' that was the number that must fall before them, r Winchesters Winches-ters were exhausted. An wur It all worth even fifty lives?" The Molltes "allowed'; that it wasn't.' t I - "Here we have Plnkerton's agents acting In the open. It Is reasonable1 to suppose that long before he undertook to lead that mob against his fellow Plnkertons he was engaged In egging on hi dupes In order that he might have a chance ;o betray them. We are told by the New York Sun that 'It was mainly on his testimony that the malefactors male-factors were sent to the gallows.' . The same day, June 21, 1877, six of his victims vic-tims were hanged In Pottsville, four: at Mauch Chunk and one In the Luzerne county 'prison-yard. , -- , j '' '' '.' "" ' ': "After the lapse of almost thirty years McParland reappears In his old role. The scene has shifted from Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania to Idaho. Again he has been busily at work searching out victims. By employing methods identical with those he used- In Pennsylvania, he has sought to create the impression that the Western miners', are a gang rof thugs wholly undeserving of sympathy of any kind. Judging by his past record, rec-ord, we are Justified in suspecting that he and other Plnkerton agents have had a good deal to do with bringing about the conditions In the Western mining districts out of which he and they will derive a pecuniary benefit. The unsupported testimony of McParland McPar-land and of his Plnkerton tools should not be sufficient to hang a dog, much less a man." - - - j |