The following is from "The Lakeland Local" no longer published. THE EARLY DAYS OF JERMYN GIBSONBURG BOROUGH A MOLLY MAGUIRE OUTRAGE. On the morning of the 29th of July, 1874, during the "Molly Maguire" reign of terror, Mine Foreman A. L. Green was set upon by three strangers, who fired nine pistol shots, bringing him to the ground wounded in three places, but not fatally. William B. Swick and his son, Robert Pierce and Charles McCracken, who were at the Jermyn mill, about fifty yards away, chased off the assailants, killed one and wounded another in the foot. The corpse being given to the physicians for dissection, persons from Dunmore claimed it as the body of one O'Malia. This and other clues brought about the arrest of the wounded assassin, and under the name of Sharkey he was convicted of an attempt at manslaughter, and sent to the Penitentiary for six years and eight months. So bold was this band of murderers, and so subservient were some of the local judiciary, that a warrant was actually obtained from a Scranton justice of the peace for the arrest of Robert Pierce for the murder of O'Malia, and a g! ang of men visited Jermyn to take him; but he had been secreted by hie friends, who followed the agents of the outlaws with such pertinacity and so strong a front that they abandoned the search; after which, to avoid further complications, a formal complaint was made, Mr. Pierce taken to Wilkes-Barre, and at the first session of the court discharged with a compliment for his courage and success.