Daily stories of Pennsylvania : $b prepared for publication in the leading daily newspapers of the state...Godcharles, Frederic Antes
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Daily stories of Pennsylvania : $b prepared for publication in the leading daily newspapers of the state...
Godcharles, Frederic Antes
Pennsylvania -- Biography; Pennsylvania -- History
Both Sanger and Uren were removed to the home of a neighbor named
Wheevil, where every attention was given them. Mrs. Sanger soon arrived
and almost immediately that a physician came into the house Sanger
expired. Uren, who had been shot in the right groin, about same place as
Sanger had been hit, lingered until next day, when he died. Neither man
retained consciousness long enough to give any coherent description of
the manner in which they had been attacked.
Mr. Heaton was eating his breakfast when he heard the firing, and at
once his mind reverted to the men he had seen sitting by the carpenter
shop. He seized his pistol and ran out of the house. He first saw
Sanger, groaning on the ground, who said: “Don’t stop for me, Bob, but
give it to them!”
Heaton then gave the chase, as before related.
A young Williams, who wanted to join Heaton in pursuit, was prevented by
his mother, but they both saw the men attack Sanger and were able to
relate the manner in which the cold-blooded murder was committed.
The careful description of the story of this murder as related in the
Shenandoah Herald, gave McParlan the clue which he pursued in running
down the murderers. It was at this time that he was believed to be the
worst Mollie in the world and was in constant danger of being killed by
people who did not know his true character.
On February 10, 1875, Captain R. J. Linden, a fellow Pinkerton operative
with McParlan, captured Thomas Munley at his home in Gilberton. Charles
McAllister was apprehended at the same time.
McAllister demanded a separate trial and George Kaercher, Esq., the
District Attorney, elected to try Munley first.
McParlan voluntarily testified in the case, and his evidence was so
accurate and convincing that no other verdict could be possible.
The wonderful address of Mr. Gowen, and those of General Charles
Albright, Hon. F. W. Hughes, and Guy E. Farquhar, Esq., added just the
argument which the jury required to find a just verdict of “guilty of
murder in the first degree.”
In November McAllister was convicted.
Munley was hanged in the Pottsville jail August 16, 1876, and McAllister
was hanged later.
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First Anthracite Coal Burned in Grate by
Judge Jesse Fell, February 11, 1808
The first knowledge of anthracite in America dates back to about 1750 or
1755, when an Indian brought a supply of it to a gunsmith at Nazareth
for repairing his rifle, the smith’s supply of charcoal having become
exhausted.
Stone coal was used by the garrison at Fort Augusta, mention of which
fact is made by Colonel William Plunket, who was one of the original
soldiers sent to build this important provincial fortress. The records
in the British War Office also contain references to its use there.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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