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BrAv,n, Utah, August 4.-Yesterday
the Court having given bis charge TO
the jury. District Attorney Carey open.
ed the argument for tho prosecution
He said perhaps the decision Of no
twelve men In a jury box was over walt
cd for with greater interest. The re-
sponsibility resting upon them Is heavy
and the whole country stands waiting
for the verdict. The speaker briefly 70.
viewed the testimony produced upon
tho trial. and showed that the object Of
the Prophets First Counsellor In pre-
oeding the emigrants through the Terri
tory, was to instruct tho people not to
sell TO them and stir up evil feeling.
Mountain Meadows was selected as the
place Of massacre because so remote
from any settlement. It was thought
the crime would mover DO known.
II the design had boon carried out
AZ planned and the Indian allies had
destroyed the company. we would have
been put Of with the story that It was
an Indian massacre, and the guilty ones
might have escaped suspicion and pun.
ishmsnt. But the bravery Of the emf.
grants defeated the trcacherous plot.
Having placed themselves In q posture
OF defense, the Indian mode Of warfare
made NO effort to dislodgs them. The
stratsgsm Of white men had TO DO re-
sorted 10. John d. Lee was the man
chosen 10 lure this band OF emigrants.
numbering upward Of a hundred souls,
TO their destruction. and after tho decd
was done and tho victims OF Church
rapacity and vindictivsnsss, lie stiff and
stark upon the silont plain. no returns
10 the people Of tho villagoof Harmony,
and. calling them oil together In
meeting recounts tho details OF tho fear
full butchsry, and thanks God for his
escape. Tho speaker dwelt with forco
upon the cowardice Of shooting down
unarmed men. aud the infamy Of letting
loose furious savagos upon terrified wo-
men and helpless children. Indisput-
able proof shows tho prisoner to have
been n OF the most active participants
In the massacre, and the jury could not
do him injustice, except they failed to
hang him.
Sutherland opened by moralizing sI.
tensivsly upon tho subject Of death.
Coming 10 review the testimony he said
the evidence showed SONIC white mon In
the massacre. Tho number Of Indians
was over one hundred. Tho cmignnts'
counsel had kept a record OF tho
names Of white participants In the
massacre and claimed but %; II were
alive. Counsel insisted that only two Of
these were permitted TO testify what
they saw and heard. tho others what
they saw only. Treachsry there was
undoubtedly. and II would DO q luxury
TO nnd out who actually psrpetratsd tho
crime and stretch Thorn. Loo was not
one. 10 engineered tho apparent capt.
s%lation. that the Indians have tho plum
der and the omigrants pass In safety.
lie alluded to the prosecution, inqsiring
why. II the whites had Joined with the
smigrnuts and fought tho Indians. where
would the fight have ended. The Indi.
ans would have triumphsd eventually,
and tho whites cut of from civil a%ssist.
ancs on all sides and been cxtermin-
atsd. Lee acted in good faith.
Klingsn Smith and othor Mormons,
with Indian hearts, violated the truce;
who was to blamsi Counsel proceeded to
pay special attention to Klingen Smith.
Ne said no was rather detrimental
to the prosecution. Counsel thought
that Kllngon Smiths protest against the
massacre was not much better, but very
mild indeed. when no permitted himself
to Are at his man and Stay him instead
Of firing in the air and on
The ground, and asserted tint 10
smith did Ms he had sworn he was q
murderer; II not, he was Q porjurer.
and In either case not entitled to belief.
OF giving testimony against his
Klingcn Smith should 10 rot.
ling in his grave.
Adjourned till 0 A. NJ. to-day.
This morning Sutherland concluded
his address for Loo. occupying about
m hour and q half. Ho devoted the
most OF his timo to an assault on
Klingsn Smiths testimony. character
lxinr him on q man who would have
been but Of little use but for the pros
ccution, giving him absolution. He
criticized the labon Of tho prosecution
in not permitting his statsmsnts ct tho
Of the massacre 70 be admitted.
Ho said they had made halt a case
only, and ridiculed the idea that men
up at random from
community were all murdsrers, as the
prosecution tried TO show. He called At
10 the fact that Klingon Smith
was q Bishop. He stored The smigrants
property In the tithing house. and
branded cattlo with the church brand.
Exclude his testimony and tho case did
not show any evidence connecting Leo
with those transactions.
Mr.. Hoge. counsel for the defendant.
followed. His statement WINS not long
but In vehement, vigorous. crude. un-
polished language not we'll connected.
He sndeavorod by his testimony to
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