The Mountaineer. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1859-1861, 1859-10-29


d bis m.mssy ats o'eIOdk to-marrow Afternoon
The officers end soldiers not On dnty are invited
9. ?. snrH.
Clarence Il. Bennett,
"a Leat i0lh Infantry. Adjntani.
The Gensrai Commanding and Staff are invited
70 attend. C.F. s..
sThe funsrli took place a. above, and wasihs
most imposing that has ever taken plaeein our
army on De occasion q the burial 81 non. cons
missioned officer. Three regiments Or Infantry,
a squadron Of Dragons, battery Of light al.
iiIlefy, and detachment of sappers and Nj
ners. The officers Of each regiment IN full uni
form followed in the rear Of their respective
corps. Gen. johnson and bis STAFF following ii
rear Of the whole.v
EXECUTION OF THOS. H. FER
GUSON.
ABOUT III am. yesterday, Thomas
III. Ferguson was taken out Of the
prison at the Court house, by u. s.
Marshal Dotson and others, and placed
in q wagon in front of his coffin. The
detachment Of militia, ordered out by
Governor Cumming for the occasion,
and under the command Of Major Lott
Smith, formed around the wagon. p.
Tx. Dotson, u. S. Marshal; ]. II. Stone,
Deputy u. s. Marshal; r. 4. Burton,
County Sheriff; and j. @. Little, City
Marshal; and others, being at the head
lof the procession, it passed, accom-
panied by an increasing number Of
spectators, through the city to the gall
lows, on the bench, "a few hundred yards
north Of the city wall and east Of City
Greek Kanyon. 4. 81.
Mr.. ]. II. johnson, Mr.. T. s. w
lliams one Of his attorneys land another
man, BY permission, conversed with the
criminal. He then assembled the scaf-
fold with firm step. After which he
addressed the people ramblingly for
about three quarters Of an hour. We
have not space to insert more than his
views concerning his trial:
ain eight days afler my arrest was called
upon for trial; was brought forth, and stood
tready to answer FOR the offence i had commited
Judge Sinclair, who was Jadge Of this Territory
then, after ( had made affidavit that my wit
nesses were not present, which requested to
Ehaye, but they could not be Found, and which
the police and the officers OF the Territory could
not find, they were gone; Il was put off till 10
O'Clock the next day was not sent for the
next day, but the day after that, the Judge called
upon me to answer for the crime had. commit
ted; after my lawyers telling him that my
| witnesses could not be found, and that they had
lacked for them all, but they could not find them;
that they had taken out subPoenas, and handed
1 them to Msrshai Dotson, but was obliged 10
stand my trial without my witnesses, and !
am here to answer for the crime which i COM
EIZs ri. : s.. ) - = IL 80
81 was tried by the statutes Of Utah Territory
which give man the privilege Of being shot, be-
headed or hung but was 1t glvenio me2 No, Il
I was not All Judge Sinclair wanted was 10 sem
,encs some one e be hung; then he was willing
i ky in his head to know what day he sentenced
me 10 be executed on, and woul6 not have
4 known, II il had not been for the people or Utah
4 laughing al him and telling him IL would be on
Il Sunday. A nice Judge TO send TO any country.
jEs am not afraid 10 die. bat would
have liked It better il had had fair triai and
1 would have felt better II Gov Cumming had COM
Inuted my sentence to The penilenIiafy, that I
might have been better prepared TO die.v
hope, gentlemen, that the next Judge that
! is sent here will be q temperate Judge, Judge
that will be capable OF attending to his business;
hope he win be aJudge that will do his business
straight Ii
After closing his public remarks,
the condemned man conYersed little
with the Marshal, and requested to be
prayed with, which was briefly done BY
/ Mr.. III. Jacobs. Ferguson then said,