Jack Kehoe

Go to Database Search Page

Go to Database Index Page

Charge:	First Degree Murder
Sentence:	Death and Executed
Years Imprisoned:
Year Crime:
Year Convicted:	1877
Year Cleared:	1979
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Pennsylvania
County or Region of Crime:	Schuylkill
City of Crime:
Result:	Pardoned Posthumously After Execution
Summary of Case:	"Jack Kehoe was wrongly convicted in 1877 of first-degree murder in death of coal mine boss Frank W.S. Langdon in 1862 in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Kehoe was sentenced to death, and he was 41 years old when executed by hanging Dec. 17, 1878. Kehoe's last words from the gallows were: " "I am not guilty of the murder of Langdon." Kehoe was pardoned in 1979 by Pennsylvania Governor Milton J. Shapp. Kehoe's pardon was based on evidence his trial hadn't been fair because he had been framed by wealthy Protestant mine owners desperate to break the growing union movement in Pennsylvania's anthracite coal fields."
Conviction Caused By:
Innocence Proved By:	Kehoe was pardoned in 1979.
Defendant Aided By:
Compensation Awarded:
Was Perpetrator Identified?
Age When Imprisoned:	39
Age When Released:	41
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"Mining The Past For Delayed Justice A Century Later, A "Retrial" For "the King Of The Mollies," By Virginia S. Wiegand (Staff writer), Philadelphia Inquirer, December 1, 1994"
Information Location 1:	http://articles.philly.com/1994-12-01/news/25854183_1_mine-boss-john-black-jack-kehoe-mollies
Information Source 2:
Information Location 2:
Information Source 3:
Information Location 3:
Information Source 4:
Information Location 4:
Information Source 5:
Information Location 5:
Book About Case:
Book Information:
Book About Case (2):
Book Information (2):
Movie About Case:
Comments About Case:

Go to Database Search Page

Go to Database Index Page

Jack Kehoe

Charge:

First Degree Murder

Sentence:

Death and Executed

Years Imprisoned:

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1877

Year Cleared:

1979

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Pennsylvania

County or Region of Crime:

Schuylkill

City of Crime:

Result:

Pardoned Posthumously After Execution

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

Kehoe was pardoned in 1979.

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

39

Age When Released:

41

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"Mining The Past For Delayed Justice A Century Later, A "Retrial" For "the King Of The Mollies," By Virginia S. Wiegand (Staff writer), Philadelphia Inquirer, December 1, 1994"

Information Location 1:

http://articles.philly.com/1994-12-01/news/25854183_1_mine-boss-john-black-jack-kehoe-mollies

Information Source 2:

Information Location 2:

Information Source 3:

Information Location 3:

Information Source 4:

Information Location 4:

Information Source 5:

Information Location 5:

Book About Case:

Book Information:

Book About Case (2):

Book Information (2):

Movie About Case:

Comments About Case: