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Molly Maguires
An Irish secret society organised in 1843. Stout, active young
Irishmen, dressed up in women's clothes, blackened faces, and otherwise
disguised, to surprise those employed to enforce the payment of rents.
Their victims were ducked in bog-holes, and many were beaten most
unmercifully.
“The judge who tried the murderer was elected by the Molly Maguires;
the jurors who assisted him were themselves Molly Maguires. A score of
Molly Maguires came forward to swear that the assassin was sixty miles
from the spot on which he had been seen to fire at William Dunn, . . .
and the jurors returned a verdict of Not Guilty.” —W. Hepworth Dixon: New America, ii. 28.
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