Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-05-29

ASOFnER srARTlNo TaAoEDY-A Story Q,
SEDUCTION, Wrong and Deata-A Aormon Il
der killed By an Injured Rus5and.-We have
already announced thar Mormon Elder by the
name Of Pratt, had been shot in Van Buren,,
Arkansas, by AIr. H. H. Mclean, whose wife
the Elder had seduced, and whose children he
had stolen. We extract the following account
of this tTagical affair from the Van Buren, (Arl.)
Kntelligeneer:.
1t is with regret that we have to chronicle the
homicide committed in our vicinity by Mr. Hec.
tor H. Mclean, late Of San francisco, California,
upon the person of a Mormon preacher. More
than all do we deplorc the melancholy affair
that led to its commission The deceased, whose
name was Farley Parker Pratt, was a man of
note among the Morinons, and judging from his
diary and his letter to Mrs. Mclean, he was a
man Of more than ordinary intelligence and
ability. Hehad been preacher and missionary
of the MormOns at San Francisco, California,
where he made the acquaintance of Mrs Nc
Lean, whom he induced to embrace the Mormon
| faith.
She was at that time living with her husband,
Hector II. Mclean; they were happy and pros
porous until she made the acquaintance of Pratt
and embraced the Mormon faith. She is the
mother of three children by Mclean, two boys
and girl, and seems to be an intelligent and
interesting lady; converses huently, and with
more grace and ease than most ladies'. About
two yearsngo, and soon after she became con-
vert TO Mormonisin, she made al attempt to
abduct two Of her children to Utah, but was
detected and prevented by her brother who was
then in California, and residing with his BROTH
er-in.law, Mr.. Mclean. She soon after, how
ever, found means to elope with said Pratt to
Salt Lake, where it is said that she became his
ninth wife.
After the elopement Of Mrs. Mclean, her pa
rents, who reside near New Orleans, wrote to
Mr.. Mclean, in California, to send the children
to them. He did so. Several months utter this,
Mr.. Mclean received news that his wife had
been to her Either in New Orleans, and eloped
with the two youngest children. He immediate
ly left San Francisco for New Orleans, and on
arriving at the house of his father-in-law, he
learned from them that Mrs. Mclean had been
there, and after an Intellectual effort to convert
her father and mother to MormonisIi., she pre-
tended to abandon it herself and so far obtained
the confidence Of her parents, as to induce them
to entrust her in the City of New Orleans with
the children; but they soon found she had be-
tayed their confidence aud eloped with the
children
They then wrote to Mr. Mclean in San Fran
cisco, who upon the receipt Of their letter, went
to New Orleans, and learning from them the
above facts in relation to the affair, Immediately
started in pursuit of his children He went to
New York and then to st. Louis. While in St
Louis he learned that the woman and children
were in Houston, Texas On his arrival in
Houston, he found that his wife had left some
time before his arrival, to Join a large party of
MormOns en- route for Utah. He then returned
to New Orleans and from there to Fort Gibson,
in the Cherokee nation, with the expectation Of
intercepting his wife and children at that point.
On arriving at Fort Gibson, and while there,
heIfOund letters in the Post office to his wife
from Pratt, some of which were mailed at St.
Louis, and others at Flint Post Office, Cherokee
nation. We are unable to give the contents Of
these letters with particularly, but they con-
tanned the fact that Mclean was on the look out
for her and the children, and that they were be-
trayed by the Rpostates and gentiles, and nd.
wishing her to he cautious in her movements and
not to let herself be known only to few of the
saints and elders. Mclean then, upon affidavit
made by himself, obtained writ from the
United States Commissioner Mt this place for
their arrest, and succeeded in getting them ar
rested by the United States Marshal Thew
were brought to this place for trial, and after
an examination before the Commissioner were
discharged.
Pratt, as soon as released, mounted his horse
and left the city. Mclean soon after procured
q horse and started in pursuit and overlook
Pratt about eight miles from the city and shot
him. Pratt died in about two hours after re-
ceiving the wound. This is a plain narrative of
the facts as we heard them from the most relia-
BILE scources, which we give our readers without
comment, as we feel that we are unable to do
SO with Justice to all parties. But deeply do we
sympathize with Mclean in the unfortunate
condition in which Mormon Villainy and fanati.
cism have placed him.
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