New-York tribune., 1871-10-20
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were tSere We beard gun srsd the 69ys asisd what
FUr Or tSeT iSer SSo Wss waiting for tSem and
the boys Said, then We bad better go on we started
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vAe-it was very low sound. Just IS the persSn
s Ss S sS the saS the Ss tRS
PAETisA boys walking together abreast was near
Ss sOTs 11S GH % was % ne next 70 Besson wS
wes Of myself and orrin and the shot came irom % tn9
bach 10 Ss e. saSt Sb Nnd on passed behind
spoke out at the time but do not recoect the words
heS e s G sGo the sS9S eDoS and started to the
nt the hollow where crosses the street orrin started
20 started after oTrLn This person sPrAng sC% % the
into s Street parity on the rum @ he shot From
nash Of the gun appeared to be pointed north This
ES Wsa All GS started then light on toward
the city went into the city through the south gate
With ths gun came to me and said that he had done the
he said that % NEED n not & Ss ns& man a o. S@ viii B
vent on I'M came to the bridge and met Cyrus Sand
tSst iSevSd thst BeasOn was shot and sandiord
sOOf me into SnstOdy and took 70 the BishOps yard
delivered me into his charge. and remained there TIL
about II o'clock at night I
TIE BIsHoP IMPLICATED.
William Bird, after left him, went hight into the
Bishops house. Birds clothes were gome bloody.
don't know what the balance OF the evening.
Bird washed the blood on his Clothes and he and wber
Rarl away together from the Bishops saw
the blood Birds riothes. william Bird told me,
~ out there with E and to do this deed that had been
ted H. did not tell me % TsG was with G@ 0F %6 OTS
Aer told me he had been called on to go, but did ret
Sd ms R9 Gs GsS 6a as
Potter went and found Parrish, and that tney came
ss the corner ESGe the as Parrish a Potter
We<ed along the tenee he, Bird said he Slot Potter
% had shot he tnss Ct hsS S shot wanted 8. .aG G
R-9 dGSn and ndq they % anS Bro fGS
sy s S a6Sn s Par
rsh was down, be gave Lm lick which cut his throat
TsSeE ens aey
the old he Gk pn 10 aPS be resdS es cp
said he laid heTs M we S came sd he rS tSO ana be
one Ss% 4 be said he was afraid the person had
shot would run of and he fred at him again %Gen
End shot at orTn He said he saw me or he sSpR0sed s
heard him call for mt; told him did he wanted 10
know why old not come to nim told him did nIt
heard Bishop johnson Bird talking together and he
SaT Gth them @ the Bishop sd he %aned should be
satiShed about the affair and not tel who was IN
nOtHnow that the Parishes were to be killed sup
SScS In the second meeting which attended there
Of them that said there were some OF then
thai would the blood run 1t was Wilson BRO tnat
called me Durfee. Bishop Johnson some two or three
days before the murder told me to take gun out Win
Ths morning when the hearing Of myself and orri9
wa the man, but was afraid % stats it. Bishop John.
sontoid me that morning what sTiSence ~ should % gVe
send me the same way stated to the Justice What the
Bishop told me to say. C4gRsdA ARRAA DuRREE'
TESTIMONY or ORRM E. PARRISH.
Orrn E. Parrish beng sworn, eays; Was 20 years old
hast July; lived with fathers family in Sprngve in
March 1857 family consisted Of father mother, and six
children eldest brother william Benson, was aged u
Aext Lived in James O'Bannons double house, we lived
IN end, OBannoA in the other; we came here from
Council Blufns.
Father, brother, and Potter murdered the
evening Of March Il, 1857 About week before the
questioned father about his regon whether he prayed
SAID but they did mt seem pleased with fathers answers
PRELIMINARY THEFTs.
night two after four horses and carriage
stolen from the stable We found two Of the horses be-
fore fathers death In Kim. Buocks stable, in Provo.
Got them back from the Bishop after fathers death
Bullock said they put his stable at night and he
did not know by whom. Lysander Gee OF Toose City
hss the other horses Saw him last Fall riding Of
EsnyOn EGy; sye . or six days after fathers death.
E and TSra came To our Souse
called father out and went the street behind
to follow, but was driven 6acF By A F. Mcdonald who
said they wanted to talk privately to father Mother
minutes Father soon after came In Father afterward
wrote on piece Of paper what was said to him. Wit
ness thinks Il read about as follows:
Abran Mcdonald and wibeT J. EAl that william Par
go brigham Young vii live . get there
PLANNING AN ESCAPE.
Abraham DuFfee ct our house frequently after the
1s Of March up the time Of the murder he lived half
mile away; pretended to father that he could not
stand MormOnism any longer and that he wanted to get
Of cOnnty Dnrfee and Potter there almost
every dAy. TAe ar arrangement wss finally made that
father brother Duree, Potter, and myself to start
ter over and Concluded that t would not be safe % start
IN daytime II did should be followed, and killed as
ApoteS IL arranged 70 after dark and meet
about quarter Of mile south of the city wall. at
corner Of the lane fence,
the Sunday Of the murder Durfee there also at Q
O'CLOCK when be and father left directing boys to
meet again after dark DUrfee back before dark
and again after dark; the last time he said father sent
70 sn Sl 70 ss1e Us Ts q E sdg or not
ing 70 mother minute or two then overlook them we
out tarUnSh r. ;9GtS 3 gate Of city Ta Two persons
aid carried bundles OF provision and ammunition.
THE MURDERS
Durfee left at the gate said he was going home to
get his gun; directed 80 to south corner Of
city wall; went directed. / saw no person heard
them inside the wall Durfee TO with his gun,
and asked brother go with him get things that
he said he had hid out during the day; he returned in
they were s6sent gun was fred, apparently about
t9s SCEDsr 81 the lane fence where we were to meet
some Indians might be eamped down there. Then he