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The Molly Maquires and the Detectives: Allen Pinkerton's Detective Stores: Volume VI:

The Molly Maquires and the Detectives: Allen Pinkerton's Detective Stores: Volume VI:

by Allan Pinkerton

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Author
Pinkerton, Allan, 1819-1884
Title
The Molly Maguires and the detectives
Original Publication
New York: G.W. Carleton, 1877.
Credits
Peter Becker, KD Weeks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
HV: Social sciences: Social pathology, Social and Public Welfare
Subject
Irish -- Pennsylvania
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 76641
Release Date
August 6, 2025
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.THE Molly Maguires AND THE DETECTIVES.
  2. 2.CONTENTS.
  3. 3.PREFACE.
  4. 4.CHAPTER I. AN EXTRAORDINARY PROPOSITION.
  5. 5.CHAPTER II. THE MAN FOR THE WORK.
  6. 6.CHAPTER III. THE DETECTIVE SEEKS THE HAUNTS OF THE MOLLIES.
  7. 7.CHAPTER IV. STIRRING UP A WASP’S NEST.
  8. 8.CHAPTER V. COLD COMFORT IN THE MOUNTAINS.
  9. 9.CHAPTER VI. POTTSVILLE AND THE SHERIDAN HOUSE.
  10. 10.CHAPTER VII. BLOODY RECORD OF THE MOLLIE MAGUIRES.
  11. 11.CHAPTER VIII. THE DETECTIVE SINGS, FIGHTS, AND DANCES HIMSELF INTO POPULARITY.
  12. 12.CHAPTER IX. DORMER UNDER INVESTIGATION.
  13. 13.CHAPTER X. FATHER BRIDGEMAN GIVES JACK KEHOE A BLAST.
  14. 14.CHAPTER XI. A KILKENNY AFFAIR AT TAMAQUA.
  15. 15.CHAPTER XII. McKENNA MEETS A MORNING ADVENTURE.
  16. 16.CHAPTER XIII. MUFF LAWLER AT HOME.
  17. 17.CHAPTER XIV. THE DETECTIVE ACHIEVES A VICTORY.
  18. 18.CHAPTER XV. MORE WORK OF THE MOLLIES.
  19. 19.CHAPTER XVI. A ROUGH JOURNEY AND A THRILLING ADVENTURE.
  20. 20.CHAPTER XVII. A PECULIAR WEDDING CEREMONY.
  21. 21.CHAPTER XVIII. A ROW, A REMOVAL, AND A RAFFLE.
  22. 22.CHAPTER XIX. SNARED BY KATE—HONORED BY “MOLLIE.”
  23. 23.CHAPTER XX. A FRIGHT, A FIGHT, AND A FUNERAL.
  24. 24.CHAPTER XXI. CONTEST WITH A CONSTABLE.
  25. 25.CHAPTER XXII. HORRORS UPON HORRORS.
  26. 26.CHAPTER XXIII. GOOD OLD MICKY CUFF.
  27. 27.CHAPTER XXIV. HOSTILITIES CONTINUED.
  28. 28.CHAPTER XXV. PLOT TO DESTROY THE CATAWISSA BRIDGES
  29. 29.CHAPTER XXVI. A CALAMITY AVERTED.
  30. 30.CHAPTER XXVII. NEW FORCES IN THE FIELD.
  31. 31.CHAPTER XXVIII. THE DETECTIVE IN SORE TRIBULATION.
  32. 32.CHAPTER XXIX. THE INQUISITION OF TEN.
  33. 33.CHAPTER XXX. ANOTHER VICTIM OF THE MOLLIES.
  34. 34.CHAPTER XXXI. HOLDING THE BREAKER.
  35. 35.CHAPTER XXXII. LINDEN FORMS AN ACQUAINTANCE.
  36. 36.CHAPTER XXXIII. PRESIDENT GOWEN AND THE LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION.
  37. 37.CHAPTER XXXIV. MURDER OF B. F. YOST.
  38. 38.CHAPTER XXXV. M C KENNA TAKES UP THE TRAIL AT TAMAQUA.
  39. 39.CHAPTER XXXVI. IN THE MURDERER’S NEST.
  40. 40.CHAPTER XXXVII. KERRIGAN’S SISTER-IN-LAW.
  41. 41.CHAPTER XXXVIII. SLOWLY GAINING GROUND.
  42. 42.CHAPTER XXXIX. BLOODY SATURDAY.
  43. 43.CHAPTER XL. MORE BOSSES DOOMED.
  44. 44.CHAPTER XLI. MURDER OF SANGER AND UREN.
  45. 45.CHAPTER XLII. ARREST OF ASSASSINS.
  46. 46.CHAPTER XLIII. VIOLENCE FOR VIOLENCE.
  47. 47.CHAPTER XLIV. TRIALS AND CONFESSIONS.
  48. 48.CHAPTER XLV. SUSPICION AROUSED.
  49. 49.CHAPTER XLVI. M c ANDREW SAVES A LIFE.
  50. 50.CHAPTER XLVII. THE LAST OF M c KENNA.
  51. 51.CHAPTER XLVIII. A NOBLE EFFORT.
  52. 52.CHAPTER XLIX. CLOSING THE RECORD.

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