The Trial of Johnnie O'Conner

William Donnelly knew who he saw so he went and spoke to the constables and said i saw a b and c. Within 48 hours almost all of the members of the inner ring of the vigilance committee were arrested and they were in jail. The problem was back then it was capital punishment so if you found them guilty you were impacting probably 20 familiesYeah and 20 families that had relatives throughout the whole area. They hired a pretty powerful team of attorneys to defend them but having said that  almost all of theMembers of the Inner Ring of the Vigilance Committee were arrested within 48 hours.