The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-04-22

and several yet remain in this Territory
and California, and will attend the forth
coming trial as Witnesses. Though very
young, indeed, it is thought that many
important facts can be proven by these
three youthful witnesses. The eldest is
a girl of thirteen, who afterward says
she frequently saw the wives of Lee ard
Haight wearing the jewels and dresses
of her murdered mother. One boy, aged
nine, named John Colvin. now living in
Arkansas, saw Lee kill his father, and
another boy recollected distinctly of
seeing his father, mother, grandfather
and grandmother all killed at once, and
lying IN one heap.
An Indian chief named Jackson, who
murdered the first OF the three couriers
IN route TO California, found on the per-
son of his victim the paper giving the
names, condition, ETC., of the emigrants.
He gave the paper to a Mormon, and,
on showing it to Lee, the latter immedi-
ately snatched it and tore it to shreds.
To this fact the honest old Mormon is
willing TO testify on trial He is evi
dertly familiar with the contents
VI INC ucsbOytu paper, 40 hc VOC
heard frequently to remark: Il be-
lieve if the Masons and Odd Fellows
knew how many of their brethren were
slain they would no longer let the &C
cursed Mormons go unpublished"
This crime is charged to the Indians.
Indian warfare is different from any
other they invariably scalp their vic
Tins. OF the 1877 slain, not one bore the
evidence of being scalped. Even could
this strong circumstantial evidence be
refuted, and the Indians proven to have
done the bloody work, the fact that the
Mormons and Indians were allies, and
their chief being Mormon Bishop, and
the further undisputed fact that Lee,
Haight aRd Dame, Mormon Elders, were
On the ground at the time and in COM
mand of the Nauvoo Legion, clearly
establishes the indirect if not direct con-
| nection of the Mormon Church and its
followers with this horrible and unjusti-
fable wholesale murder
Three or four weeks after this memo
rable Black Sunday" the same good old
Mormon from whom Lee snatched and
tore up the paper containing the names
of the emigrants visited the desolate and
now stenched field of carnage. He
gathered up the scattered bones and
lacerated fragments of flesh, and buried
| them in the very intrenchment the emf
grants had dug for their own defense.
The ravenous wolves soon dug through
the dirt loosely scattered over the re-
mains OF the emigrants, and, after de-
vouring the flesh, scattered the bones
over the meadows, where they lay
bleaching in the summers sun, until a
detail of soldiers under command of Brig
Gen. Carlton gathered them up and again
buried them.
After this burial, on the very spot
watered by their blood, the soldiers gath
| cred stones from the adjacent hills and
| over their few remains erected an oval
| monument about four feet high and
twenty feet long by about six feet wide.
On its summit plain wooden cross was
| erected, bearing the inscription: Ven
gesnce is Mine, will repay, saith the
Lord"
A few weeks later the stones were
scattered over the meadows and the cross
and inscription torn down. The soldiers
| rebuilt the monument and again reared
on.its summit the cross, bearing those
burning words of heavenly vengeance.
| A few months later Brigham Young
and his secretary were driving by this
lonely sepulchre, and on reading the
words on the cross acknowledged his own
guilt by ordering his secretary to tear
down the inscription, and substituting
Vengeance Is Mine, and l Have Had
| U-BRIGHAM You've"
This insulting and sacrilegious inscrip
| ton was soon torn down and destroyed
but the monument of stones still remains
| to mark the place of the commission Of
one of the most cowardly, treacherous
and brutal deeds ever perpetrated by
man, civilized or savage.
! Col. w. II. Dame and Mai John D. Lee
who were both commanding troops or
the day of the massacre, are the only
participants now under arrest and wait
ing trial. AS many as eight or ten others
| have been indicted, but remain uncap
tured despite the exertions of the author
tiles Lee is about sixty years of agt
| and came to this country in 1850 from
Illinois. At present his health is rapidly
failing. and he says he fears not the re
suit of the trial, as his life cannot be pro
longed but few years even in case O
acquittal.
Dame is a New Hampshire farmer
forty-six years of age. In recent con
versation with Times correspondent hi
emphatically denied his guilt, and in tn,
name of Heaven denied that the churcl
and President" Young were in any wa,
connected with the horrible affair
Lee and Dame were indicted last Octo
Der and arrested few weeks after
Dame made no effort to escape, but wa
arrested peaceable in his own house a
Parowan. Anticipating his arrest lie,
for several years has been living in
swamp several miles from Parowan, in al
old fort. Becoming emboldened on
- he visited his family at his farm
near by. On suddenly seeing the officer
approach he ran into the yard and hid il
a chicken-coop. He was captured ant
taken to Beaver City, where he has beer
confined ever since in the military camp
Dame was brought to this city and con
fined in the Territorial Penitentiary un
til few days ago, when he was taken t,
Beaver, where the trial is to be held in
feU dave