Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-08-05
FACTS.


ments we have seen. we have thus far
filled to notice any allusion to few
facts of the case that will in our opinion, |
place the guilt where it belongs. When
murder is committed. it is not the hand
that Stays, but the brain that plans the
murder that the law Furnishes. An idiot,
though he kill a man, goes unframed;
the law arguing that criminal intent and
nationality Of connected purpose is re-
quisite to constitute q punishable crime.
The greatest murder trial in the history
of the world is now going on in little
town in Southern Utah. The story is
old bu, fearful in its details, the testimony
on bob sides is brought out with care
and the defense and prosecution with all
due gravity are preparing their respec-
tive statements, the jury has been i'm
psneled and everything as far rs done
has been arranged legally and in order,
and yet mistake has been made. The
court in session at Beaver is trying the
wrong man. 1t may bs--and we trust
It's so-that this trial is but the prelude
to the more extensive impeachment that
is to follow, but the murderer Of Noun
tain Meadows is supposed to be in the
criminal dock in Beaver Court house. 1t
is an error Brigham Young is the muir
derer, his the brain that planned the dia-
bolical massacre, Lee and his attendant
demons the hands that strangled the
innocent babe and drove the knife to
the hilt in the heart OF the unfortunate
emigrant defending his own life and his
family's honor. To murderer, lying is
easy, and the accursed lips tina. gave the
order to do the dreadful deed OF rapine
and blood, hesitate not, after eighteen
years, to perjure themselves and say he
"heard nothing of it till after it hap
pened.' An equivocating bubble is in
place in a merry jest or playful joke. but
fearfully out of place in this dark record.
What man ever heard of anything till
after it happened? The most trivial &C.
currence must take place before one can
become cognizant of the fact That
Brigham Young is the real murderer has
been proven beyond the shadow of
doubt. in court and out of court Let us
took at the facts recorded in history. In
1857 Brigham Young was, as he is to-
day, the great II am " of the Mormon
Church. He was also Indian agent
and Governor OF the Territory of Utah.
As Chief Mogul of the incestuous brood
OF vipers who knew no God but lust
and no prophet but Brigham; he was the
keeper Of their cousciences and the
arb,ter OF their tates; az In.
dian agent he was the supplier o
the Indians and their visible ant
contingent ruler; as Governor of tn
Territory his power was comparativel.
supreme aud unlimited. In the earl,
Fall of 81 the Inflated emigrant trail
arrived in SILT Lake City, and viewed
with jealous and vindictive eye were re
fused provisions. They left there an
stopped week at Provo, but were or
dered to leave there by the Mayor OF tn
town under strict orders from Brigham
This train was the richest and bes
equipped that ever crossed through tina
country. Here was the incipent com
mencement of the most devilish schem
ever conceived by mortal brain. Tn
bloody plan was as follows-and here W,
say we speak advisedly and not at ran
dom. The emigrants were to be dis
eouraged and annoyed. the Indians wer'
to be melted against them and made t
attack them. At that time, Utah was
three months journey from Washington
and in the report that Brigham woul
send to Washington in relation to til
massacre by 1.-The Indians" he woul
receive orders to make reprisals. aud b
killing the Indians destroy all evidenc
of his guilt or his creatures complicit,
and enjoy the plumber. The poets
every age and country have portray
villains, and the great German met
physician Goethe has depicted Mephi
topheles as the incarnate fend OF lu
when he tempts Faust to seduce Ma
guerite, but the saint of crime the apo
tie of beastlness, the exponent OF 70
thoughts and the living embodiment
corruption, surpasses in his action Il
widest flights of the poets fancy. Tn
is the murderer. this the man by who
orders poor little infants with the ligl
of heaven in their eyes and the smile
innocence on their lips, were seized
the heels and their brains dashed out o
cart wheels, this the wretch by who
command the gray haired pioneer. hal
Ply in the thoughts of peaceful home
sunny California, was stabbed to Il
heart and his long white hair made til
ornament of savage girdle. this Il
malignant villain who in the name of Il
Lord caused pure maidens in the fir.
blush of conscious womanhood to /
violated and made suffer thousan
deaths, this the lying hound who, JUDI
like, Rugged and kissed his execution,
Lee on meeting him, told him to "sa
nothing about it even among you
selves" and now from his Salt Lal
harem sends the pitiful falsehood Z"
knew nothing about it," On the day
the massacre he, after declaring marti
law in the Territory, issued proclaim
ton forbidding any persons to pass
repass through the Territory, this wi
special reference to the emigrants, al
after ordering the disposition Of Il
booty and giving most minute directio,
as to what to do with the plunder, he e
erted all his tremendous religious an
temporal influence in smothering an
concealing the facts. Twas death
disubey his orders twas death to Yeve