Excerpt from Report of the Case of the Commonwealth Vs. John Kehoe Et Al., Members of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Commonly Known as "Molly Maguires": Indicted in the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace, for Schuylkill County, Penn., For an Aggravated Assault and Battery With Intent to Kill Wm. M. Thomas, With the Testimony and Arguments of Counsel in Full, Stenographically Reported by R. A. WestMr. Smith was attacked by a party of assassins in his own house and killed almost in the presence of his family, and, though many were suspected it was impossible, until many years after the occurrence, to obtain any positive information as to the guilt of the suspected parties, some of whom after their arrest were rescued at night by their friends, who broke into the, jail at Mauch Chunk, where the suspected parties were incarcerated.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.