The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-09-17


by one party, and q mile above that
by two boys, since which time no
one has secured q clue to the fate of
the fy-trap man. The red-headed
man came back looking tired.
A JACK-MOEsNION JURY.
New and Horrible Evidence
in Relation to the Noun.
tain Meadows Mas.
Sacre.
lSaIt Lake Cor Cincinnati Commercially
Whether the heads of the church
are more pleased or chagrined at
the result is doubtful, but they are
evidently in great trouble over the
effect it has had on the nation. 1t
is such a bsrefaced fraud on justice
that the most inveterate Jack.Mor-
mon does not venture to apologize
for it. The defence, in the interest
of Brigham, doubtless, are now
seeking to have Dame and Lee tried
together in September, and the We
nue. removed to this city. But / am
inclined to think that would be in
the interests of justice and the lib.
eral cause. AS TO the men them
selves, it would be a pure waste of
time to try them over again with
our present jury laws. The facts
for the prosecution are as clearly
proven as the fact of there having
been a war in the United States,
but a new jury would give a YER
dict just as Brigham dictated. 1t is
now suggested that Congress ap-
point committee to select Jury
men hero that list of thousand
names be made out and the jury
drawn therefrom. 1t would be i'm
possible to "pack" jury out of that
mum Der; aid yet more thar that
could be found who would not sub
nit To any dicIalipn from Brigham.
Al present one hall the list is re
ltcIed by The probate Judge, gcner-
ally bIshop. The idea OF Nor
mon bishop selecting jury 70 try
brigham Young or any OF hi-
agents, is too huge aud pain jul
JOKE to write about.
Meanwhile new evidence is com
ing out all the time-some of it Gu
rious, most of it horrible. Jacob
Hamlin, lifelong Mormon, then
4LHC0 Az ktSS bOA III Gnu vi LAO G4C6O-
oWs; he was absent from home, but
left an Indian boy named Alfred,
whom he had brought up, in charge
of his flock. This boy speaks good
English, but could not legally be
witness. The boy says that when
he learned what was going on he
drove the sheep slowly in that di-
rection till he saw the emigrsnts
coming out of their corral, when he
took position near thicket to
watch the result. There were two
wagons in front filed with children
and men who had been wounded in
the seige; both wagons driven by
Mormons. Behind them came the
women in a mass, leading the larger
children, and behind them the men !;
beside the men marched the Nor
mon militia, single file. At the
words, "HaltI Fire !" some fifty RI
fies were discharged upon the men,
and nearly all of them fell dead.
Then the Indians rose from their
ambush and rushed upon the wo-
men, who turned and fed back to-
ward the men. Most of them were
Drained in few moments; but two
young girls about Is years old, AL
bert thinks, sprang into a gully, ran
down it and aGruss the bottom to
where he was standing. They beg
| ged him to save them, and he direct
ed them where to hide in thicket.
/ In another instant Jchn ID. Lee and
Bill Stewart came galloping across
the hollow, and, with savage curses
ordered him to point out the rnna-
ways. He dare not disobey, and
soon the girls were dragged out.
Kneeliug to Lee, they poured out
the most passionate prayers for
mercy they would be his slaves,
never beuray him, would work for
him forever. While one chung to
his knees he jerked her suddenly
upon her back, and placing his knee
upon her breast, cut her throat from
ear to ear The other had, mean
while, ran away. He overlook her,
and by q savage blow on the back OF
the head with ragged stone, crush
ed in her skull. Both these bodies
were missed by the burying party.
and, strange to say, lay there ten
days untouched by the wolves.
When Hsmlin returned from Salt
Lake City, Albert pointed them out
and they were buried. Hamlid adds
that there was not the mark Of q
tooth on either body, and no sign OF
decay, so pure was the air. The fair
countenances were like those OF
persons Just dead, and their hand
some forms untouched by the birds
and beasts of prey. Nature and the
wild beasts of the mountains were
kinder to them than men of their
own race and color.
Equally strange is the story told
by Mrs. HRmlin-siUce deceased
which was only hearsay, but is con.
firmed by collateral evidence. A
III orman woman far advanced il
pregnancy was at Hamlin's; hel
husband was driving one of the wa.
gons containing the wounded, hSv.
ing been ordered an that duty by
B shop Klingen Smith. When the
massacre began this man to * 8 fiji
and soon died of excitement and
fright. When the bloody wagon
containing the children and the dead
body of her husband was brough
to Hamlin's, this woman went into
a spasm, prematurely gave birth IL
child, then went insane, and lin
gered twelve years g raving maniac
The driver of the other wagon say
that besides children and wounded
men he lad in his wagon q venera
y, BILE old man, with long white beard
richly dressed, and evidently a mar
of consequence among the emf
grants. He insists that this old mat
!, jumped out of the front end of ihI
wagon, got into the bushes. and wa
never captured. None of the bury
ing party could ever find his body
Possibly the poor old man wander
ed away in the mountains, afraid t,
> appear st any settlement, aud eithe
: died of hunger in some lonely plac,
or was murdered by the Indians.
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