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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)).