------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s Note: This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_. A superscripted character is preceded by the ‘^’ character. Full-page illustrations were inserted in pairs, not always strictly following the sequence of events they describe. In order to reduce the interruptions of the text, the captions have been separated to fall on convenient paragraph breaks in the vicinity of the passages they depict. Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation. ALLAN PINKERTON’S DETECTIVE STORIES. VOL. VI. THE MOLLY MAGUIRES AND THE DETECTIVES. [Illustration: “_The trial at Mauch Chunk was attended by all the celebrities of the Carbon County bar._”] [Illustration: “_A consultation was held, in my private parlor, over the business offices of the Agency, No. 45 South Third Street._”] THE MOLLY MAGUIRES AND THE DETECTIVES. BY ALLAN PINKERTON, AUTHOR OF “THE EXPRESSMAN AND THE DETECTIVE,” “THE MODEL TOWN AND THE DETECTIVES,” “THE SPIRITUALISTS AND THE DETECTIVES,” ETC., ETC. NEW AND ENLARGED EDITION. [Illustration] NEW YORK: _G. W. Carleton & Co., Publishers._ LONDON: S. LOW & CO. PHILADELPHIA: H. W. KELLEY. CHICAGO: T. A. LANTRY & CO. BOSTON: D. O’LOUGHLIN. MDCCCLXXX. [_SOLD ONLY BY SUBSCRIPTION._] COPYRIGHTED 1877. BY ALLAN PINKERTON. _All rights reserved._ TROW’S PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING CO., PRINTERS, _205-213 East 12th St._, NEW YORK. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE An Extraordinary Proposition 13 CHAPTER II. The Man for the Work 22 CHAPTER III. The Detective seeks the Haunts of the Mollies 27