Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-07-29
THE TRIAL OF JOHN ID. LEE
RESUMED.

DEANEls, July Il.
William Young, an invalid and
very feeble, was sworn. He was in
sight of the massacre. Saw there
Lee, Higbee, Klingen Smith, Jas.
Mangon, Slade, John Clark, Bill
Stewart, and George Adair. Saw
the flag of truce carried by Bate
man to the emigrant camp. Pres
emily a wagon drove down to them.
Saw Lee and the immigrants load
ing in stuff. Saw the wounded
and children in the wagons. The
women, boys and girls followed.
Then the men marched out and
went up the road to Cedar. When
they got opposite the soldiers guns
ts,oy fred. Don-J know VINO hred.
The witness is Mormon and very
unwilling. Don't know where
the white men were when the guns
were fired. Heard the firing and
saw the immigrants dead. Won't
swear who fired. Saw the Indians
kill four women. Saw an Indian
kill baby in its mothers arms
with knife. Saw an Indian dash
q rock on o child's head and kill it.
Saw an Indian drag two girls in
among the Indian crowd and saw
them no more. Saw boy of thir-
teen years on the ground. An In
dian dashed a big rock on his
breast. Saw Indians pursue wo-
men and dash at them with knives
and weapons. We camped three
hundred yards that night from
where the women's bodies lay, and
next day went to the immigrant
corral. There was no property
there. / saw Bishops Dame and
Haight on the road going home.
Cross-examination. - lived in
Washington county. The Indians
there were very excited. Wash
ington is southwest of the Mead
ows, and in the opposite direction
from Cedar City. The Washing
ton settlers were unprotected, and
the people were alarmed about the
Indians. On the road to the
Meadows we met Indians; saw In
dams with American cattle. They
acted as though they wanted to
fight us. We met one wounded
Indian.
The defense offered to show here
that Lee did all he could to quiet
the Indians; that the whites were
in danger of their lives unless they
joined with the Indians in killing
the immigrants.
The Court held it was not cross
examination.
This theory excited, in Court
and in town, almost universal
smiles. The people say the fifty
Mormons with the fifty men of the
immigrant train, could have whip
ped all the Indians IN Southern
Utah; also that this theory is
confession of the basest cowardice.
Samuel Pollock, sworn.-Was at
the massacre from Cedar. Saw
there Robert Wiley, William Bate
man, Lee, Higbee, Klingen Smith,
Stewart, Charles Hopkins, Ezra Cur
tbs, and Thomas Cartwright. Went
by orders of Curtis, his officer in the
Utah militia. Was there three days
before the massacre. When he ar
rived found the Immigrants sur
rounded on all sides by Indians. All
the white men he saw were about
twenty five at a rough guess, mostly
armed and in camp two days then.
The Indians withdrew from sight
and the whites went toward the i'm
migrant camp. He saw flag go
out and saw man meet it. Then
the flag party went to the immigrant
camp and staid two hours. saw
wagons loaded and leave the camp,
followed by immigrants on foot.
They came up to the soldiers, who
marched with them. Asthey turned
an angle in the road We heard a vol
ley Of shots. We looked, and saw a
cloud of smoke, and Indians rush
ing on the immigrants. Thought
then all was consumated, and that
the Indians would spare none. Went
on the ground next day, and saw
men, women, and children, butcher
Ell IN a horrible manner. Some ol
The children were smashed with
rocks. We went to bury the bodies