Patrick Hester, a member of the Molly Maguires, pictured at home playing cards (center of table). On the right, with the beard, is James McParlan,
the undercover Pinkerton agent who helped convict Hester. (From the Pinkerton's The Molly Maguires and the Detectives (1877)).

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