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Pardons board delays ruling on a Molly Maguire.
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
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February 2, 2007| Author:
Cattabiani, Mario F.
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Byline: Mario F. Cattabiani
Feb. 2--HARRISBURG -- After 130 years, what's another year or so?
Pennsylvania's Board of Pardons yesterday unanimously and indefinitely postponed a pardon request for John "Yellow Jack" Donahoe, a member of the infamous Molly Maguires who was convicted of killing a mining boss and hanged in 1877 after a trial that many historians believe was rigged. His great-great-granddaughter Margaret Mary Juran, who lives outside Harrisburg, i...