Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1875-02-08


From the salt Lake TIibanc, February 81
The trial OF the areh.murderer. Jshn
ID. Lee, will take place in Beaver during
the April term OF the Second District
Court. As this man stands out exalted
in infamy q head and shoulders above
his blood-stainsd compssra, and ~ the
massacre Of tn. unoffending party OF
emigrants, ~ which notwithstanding
crime he was tho reputed leader. stands
GU. alone in the annals Of our country
for its periidy and appalling details.
there is no wonder that q widespread
interest Is felt in tho trial, and the yer-
dict Of ths jury will be c~anvassed by
millions OF our fellow countrymsn. We
hear that several Of tho leading journals
in the East will have reporters in the
Court to take the evidence verbatim. 80
whatever the result Of the trial. the facts
elected will DO fairly placed beforc.ths
world. and tho moral guilt will attach to
the real offenders without regard to the
decision rendered Ivy a pied aud posi-
bly, partisan jury. Whether n jury to try
the case can DO drawn from the jury list
Is held as n serious question, M 1t
would. perhaps, be difficult to find one
man in Utah who is not al imbecilc,
who has heard much about the case,
and.has not freely expressed an opinion
upon the guilt OF the prisoner. 1t ID said
thai L.eo's friends in the Church will
bring forward q whole cloud Of witnesses
accustomed to obey counsel. who will
swear an aiiLi, and this delicate strata
gem cannot fail TO have weight with
those in the jury-box who are followers
Of the Prophet and ''brothers in Christ
with the prisoner.
bat We hear strange stories about
Lees present frame Of mind. One Spi-
Ger, who has boon retained as his coun-
sci, has been trying his clients cast in
the papers. and applying q whitewash
brush p~rofusoly. and then these letters
that the Church journals are publishing.
written by the pious homicide to his
eighteen agonizing wives and half q
hundred desolatc sons and daughters.
wherein ho describes himself m a man Of
sorrows and acquainted with grief, and
wonders why the hoathen (Chinec)
should mge so f%uriously, are all very
pretty. and add largely to tho dramatic
effect. n. .rr- ..r
We hear that Lee expresses great dis
affection toward his brother priests, and
there is danger Of his telling 1t oil. lilo
tells Of u whole raft Of fellow conspira-
tors and assassins being hidden in q
cave in Southern Utah, armed against
tho approach Of officers. aud deiying ar
rest, who were the principal actors IN
the tragedy, and they have made n scape-
goat of Leo by raising him to his bad
cmincrcc, and charging upon him the
crimes Of which they were the perpetra-
tors. The ~outraging Of defenccless wo-
men, and then cutting their threats, he
declares wsro acts Of grace performed
by Haight, Highly and some other de-
yout servants OF the Lord. No love
soems to DO lost between these holy
brethren. Lee il reported tn feel sore
oyur the iniamy they have heaped upon
his shoulders. and is ready to pay back
tho injury by making u clean breast Of
IL. Ma health is suffering under his
confinement, and he is badly afflicted
with inilamma,ory rheumatism. lie IN
inclined 10 take a gloomy view Of life.
anl is Indifferent where tho sword OF
Justice falls. only no is anxious to have
al, receive their just dues.
Whatever may DO the direct result OF
the trial. this much is certain, the ac-
tive participation OF the hierarchs OF the
Mormon Church in this wholesale butch
cry will be brought out 10 fully into tho
ofiulgenee Of daylight, and published NO
widely TO the world. that tho whole cor
rupt outii, will he condemned by public
opinion. aud n retreat outside tho stake
OF Utah will he nssiduonsly sought by
quite a number who now alt in the high
eat soats OF tho Tabernacle.