Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1875-08-01
TIE MOUNTAIN MEADOW MAS
SACRR.
Lees Trial.

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Loe's Trial
Beaver, t., July 31.-The witness
Farnsworth resumes for the defense:
Was nine years bishop know how
the church disciplinss it's members.
Question Would . bishop in 1857
dare to refuse to commit murder:
Ruled incompetent.
Consideration does the Church dis
cipline its members for disobedience?
The prosecution alleged that the laws
Of the Church contain q doctrine Of
blood atonement. and that examining
into that matter would open the Goor in
rebuttal to establish the acts of the
Church in the murder of the Parish fam
ily. the murder Of Gunnison, the killing
Of Robinson, the cutting of the throat
of the negro Tom Cutting; also the throat
of Potts at Coalville, and the murder Of
Gates.
The Court ruled out the question. The
written record Of the laws of the Church
was the hest evidence.
Question - What was the relative
strength Of the whites and Indians in
Southern Utah in 1857.
Ruled irrelevant.
Cross-examination-h a year age
had q conversation with Smith, aud he
for the first time said he had no knoWl-
edge of the Arkansas immigrants being
in the Territory until the day he and l
met them at Corn Creek; didn't swear
yesterday that Smith told me SO at the
time We met. The reporters notes
we're referred to. and showed that he said
Smith told him so, but gave no date. l
saw y man with the Indians at the dead
OK at Corn Creek when We left the immi-
grants there; saw no buckskins there;
have talked with witness Hoops abou:
that; think the man WAS an INN giant;
can't say how long 7 saw him; can't say
it was Q second.
Counsel asked the Court to commit
the witness for contempt, for trifiing.
Can, say how long l looked at them;
when saw him the immigrant train had
not broke camp: was yet in the corral.
There vas great sensation here in the
Court, as witness Hoops had sworn it
was after the camp had broken that the
Dutch Doctor fingered behind an OK as
the train moved of; also that the OK WAS
inside the corral, and was not seen till
the camp broke. Witness drew dia-
gram showing the position of the OK and
the immigrant camp, locating the OK 90
rods from the Immigrant: camp.
Witness saw no dead OK in their cor
raj: heard nothing of Dutch Doctor
there; heard nothing about the cholera
there; it was customary among the In
dams to avenge q wrong by one white
party upon the first or any other white
party they met; there were many tribes
in the Territory, but all speak the same
tongue, with dialects; there were not
less than ten thousand Indians in the
Territory in 1857: the Territory was
then larger than it is now; among the
Mormons the same rule of vengeance
does not prevail; no people holds man
to moro strict accountability than the
Normons: no people are more strict In
Furnishing for the violation Of law. They
do not believe in shedding blood, and do
not kill for adultery.
Jno. Hamilton, sworn.-In 1857 lived
six miles south of Cedar, in Fort Hamil
ton. Heard of the massacre; after it
saw Indians by my place; they had
bloody clothes of women, household
goods, saddles and stock. They shot
some OF the stock there; was afraid,
they were hostile and in war paint; they
committed no outrage on me, or neigh
bors; the Indians were peaceable with
Us as long as We fed them and gave them
work.
John Hamilton, Jr, sworn. lin 1867
lived six miles south of Cedar, in Fort
Hamilton; saw the emigrants at SHIFTS
Greek; they came by there to get COW
which q man in Parowan had traded
them for lame one; they again traded
the Parowan COW to my brother for
steer, there was much excitement in the
county then. Recess,