Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (City of Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1853-1857, 1857-06-16
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Il is With Fsgeas bhat We have 10 ehxan.
i1la th : homicide, rgznnaiteed n our vi.
ciuiky On Wednesday last, By Hsegor ri
Mclean, late of sAn Francisco, 0agifos-
MIA, upon ths pessoS Of Mogmon prsach.
er. More shan all do We dapIors them
lauchOly affair shaa lead TO its eommis-
sion. The dsoeassd, whose mans vas
Farley Parker pfatt, wss . man of note
among the AiOFmans, aud Judging from
his diary aud ais lstasF 10 Mira Mclean.
hs was q aan Of more than Ordinary ih-
telligaAcs and ability. He lad been .
preacher aad missibnaxy The Mogmons
al San Francisco, California, where he
made Eheasquaiasaaes of Alrs. Mclean,
whom ha Induced "a emhzmea the M0rmon
faith. "a ias E
She wss sE thai sinls liRiAg With hsr
husband, Hector 81. Mclean /; thsv we're
happy aud pr0spyrsEs uHtia she snads tha
acqnaiasaRes of PEats aRd auabzaasd ths
Mormon faith. ahs il shs mother Of
three ehildfen by Mclean, mo bays and
girl, and seems 30 be an intslligeas ana
interesting lady qonTeEses aaenaly. and
with more grace AID ease than most la
dies. About two years ago, and soon af-
ter she became sonvers 70 Mornoninn,
she made au attempt to abdaat two Of
her children to Utah, but Was detected
aud prevented By her brother, who was
then in California; and residing with his
brother. iR-iaw, Mf. Mclean. She soon
after, however, found means to alops With
Pratt to Salt Lake, where it Is said that
she became bis. nihkh wife.
After the slePeEnent Of MEs. Mclean,
her parents, who reside near New Or
leans, wrote to Me. Mclean, in c CaIiforuia,
TO send the children to them, lie did 90.
Several months afsar this, Mfr. Mclean
received news thaE bis vile had been %
her father IN New Orleans, and elopsd
with the two youngest children. He I'M
n6diasely left San Francisco for New
Orleans, and On striving al the house Of
his father -in-laws he learned from them
that Mrs. Mclean had bean shere, and af.
ter al Intellectual effort 20 convert her
father and mother 10 ulormoaisrn, she
pretended to ab&ndou it herself, and so
lar obtained she confidence Of heE pa
rents, as to induce them to entsust her in
the City Of New Orleans With the chill
dreu but they soon found that she had
betrayed their confidence and eioped With
the children.
They than wrote to Mclean in San
Francisco, who upon the receipt Of their
letter, went to Ssw Orleans, and leaning
from them she aBove facts in relation 10
the affair, immediately started ia paFsuit
of his children. do went to New York
and then to ss, Louis. While in 81. Lou
Is he learned that the woman and chill
dfen were IN Houston, Texas. % his
arrival In Houstoh be louGd thas h5swiEs
had left some tiEas before his arrival, 30
Join . large panty Of Mormons "a rOpts
far Utah. He thsn returned 10 New Or
leans aud from thure to Fort Gibson, iR
the Cherokee nation, with the szpeeta-
tien Of iARercept5ag his wife aud children
at that poiat. a T.. ~g ia /
On arriving at Fort Gibson, and while
there, he found letters ia the post once
10 his wifs TFoaa Pratt, ssme Of which
were mailed 81 81 Louis, and eahsEs ~
Flint post odROs. ChsFokss nation. We
are unable 10 give tho contents Of these
letters win particularly, bat thsy cou-
tanned the fact 51ak Mclean was on the
lockout for he4 aad the children, and
that they were betrayed by the apostatss
and gentiles, aud advising her to be oaas
lious ia her movements, and not 20 las
herself be- known only 70 } few uS lhA
saints aud elders. Mclean thsa, upan sF-
kdaEiG made by himself, sbtsinsd writ
from the United States ecm missioner at
this pace for tlieiE agfeas, aud succeeded
ia getting theus arrested By ths United
States marshall Thar wafs hraughe to
this place "a ssgAl aaa aktsg an exani-
nation hsforN shs commissioners, were
discharged
Psasa, az sooa 90 Fsieased, mounted his
hurma and laft the city. Mclaan aeon AZ
teg ahtained horse and started IN pgr-
sait, and overlook Pratt about eight miles
RON tie city, and shot him. Pratt died
ia shout Ewo hours after receiving ths
wound. This - @ plain narrative Ut the
facts As ne heatd them frem sha must re-
liable sources, Fhich We give 10 ourread-
ess xiGhoaf eorAnens, ~ We feel that we
afs unable to db 30 with justice 70 alt par
ties. But deeply do We sympathiss vita
Mclean ia the uniurtnnata eanditon IA
which Mormon vfiliany and fansticisa
has placed hims .. ..4
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