The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-09-18
THE MOUNTAIN MEADOW
-..-. MASSACRE:77, Mo-.

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at Beaver. Utah..Tho Testim0.
NY Concluded and Court Ad'
j0urns Until Monday.
SALT LAKE, September 1G.-The fol-
lowing special dispatches have been re
ceiyed concerning the Lee trial, now In
progress at Beaver, Utah:
BEAVER, UTAH, September 15.-Sever
witnesses testified for the prosecution TO-
day, all new except Joel W. White, fixing
the murder on Lee. The case will prob
ably 90 to the jury tomorrow evening
and conviction d h dead certainty. 81
The first witness in the Lee case was
D. V. Wells, who testified that Lee ID
1867 occupied the, position Of farmer. to
the Indians In Southern Utah, and per.
haps some. place in.the militia. !.
Tabon Morrill, testified as to council
held at Cedar City, which had under ad.
yisemcnt the destruction Of the train. II
was understood that before it should be
done Brigham Young should beconsulted
A messenger was sent to Salt Lake for
that purpose, and another to Pinto Creek
10 draw of the Indians and allow the
train TO pass on until word was received
from Brigham Young TO the contrary.
Forty.cight hours before the messenger
returned from Salt Lake, he heard the
massacre had taken place. Haight, Hig.
bee and Klingensmith were in the coun.
ell, rnd Lee was not there. '' ''
James Haslum testified that he was the
messenger sent TO Brigham Young by
Haight, 10 whom he explained the object
Of the message. Lee could hold the emf,
grants corralled, waiting his return. He
rode plight and day, stayed two hours In
Salt Lake and returned. Brigham's mess
age was: $50; don't spare horseilesh.
Those men must be spared. Let them 60
in peace ,
Got back to Cedar on the Sunday fol-
lowing and learned the deed was done.
Joel W. White testified almost exactly
as at the former trial, relative to taking
The message to Pinto Creek and taking
part in the massacre. ,..aty
Samuel Knights testimony went TO
show that he was driving one Of the wag.
ons OF the train. He heard the first gun
fired after the emigrants had been do.
coyed out; saw Lee blow woman's brains
out and beat man to death with gun,
and murder several others, and, at the
same time, the Indians made rush on
the women and children, whom they slew.
Samuel McMurty testified thathe drove
the other wagon. After. the emigrantS
had been decoyed out by n flag Of truce,
and the whole column commenced NOV
ing up the meadows, he ordered tho COM
manl to halt, and, looking around, saw
Lee put his gun to woman's head and
fire. She fell. lie heard him beating a
mans brains ont with gun. Leo then
came to witness wagon and shot all the
wounded men with his pistol, and drag.
ged the bodies 10 the ground. Only the
children in the wagons were saved. This
witness refused to tell whether lie took
part in tho killing, but on the former
trial it came out he was the man who,
while in the act OF firing on one Of the
emigranls, said:
20 Lord, receive their spirits, for it is
for their sakes we do these things"
Eephi johnson, who went to the
meadows as Indian Interpreter, testified
that he saw Lee shoot the woman refer
red TO, aud cut u mans throat IA he drag.
ged him from the wagon. The witness
was extremely careful to tell nothing i'm.
plicating any one except Lee, the witness
being most constant in the forgetfulnEss
Of names and incidents not relating Who'll.
Iy TO the defendant" His crosSexamina-
ton, which was searching, showed that he
could tell sufficient TO hang every man
who took part in the massacre. All he
said damaged Ice materially. -.....,.,
jacob Hamlin testified as 10 conver-
sation between himself and Lee a few
nights after the butchery, in which the
defendant justified himself by claiming
that it was necessary as q military
massacre. ~ 10 f-.ult,.
The testimony OF all the new witnesses
thus FAR plainly indicate that they are in
conspiracy to sacriiie Lee for the good OF
the church.
IN the Beaver Court, this morning,
Jacob Hamlin was recalled, and stated
that Lee further told him that an Indian
chief, who lived at Cedar, brought two
girls who had. been hiding in the brush
10 him (Lee) and asked what he should
do with them; that they were TOO pretty
10 kill, Lee replied that he must shoot
them; that they were too big. The Indian
then shot one, and Lee threw the other
down and cut her throat, That when
Hamblin returned to his ranch he went
over the ground and found the bodies Of
two girls about tho age described, from
thirteen to fifteen, lying near together
with their throats cut as described TO him
by Lee; that one Of the children, who was
about eight years old, was at his house,
who claimed the two bodies as her sisters
and that her name was Dunlap. J.!
Hamblin, On being asked by the defense
II he had ever told this to any one, re.
piled that he had; and more too; that soon
after the occurrence, when he remember
ell better than lie did now, had told 1t TO
President Young and George A. Smith;
that President Young told him that when
the right time came, and we could get q
Court OF Justice, 10 so and tell il; and on
being further pressed, said he had not
seen the effects Of any Court Of justice
from that time to this, but thought now
was just the right time to tell it,.
johnson, onIbeing recalled, stated that
subsequently 10 the massacre he was sent
10 protect the next company Of emigrants
to the Santa Clara; that on his way he
stopped at Harmony, where he saw John
D., Lee, who proposed 70 him to get the
emigrants into an ambush TO destroy them
by the Indians, and 80 get their property;
also that he. (Johnson) replied, "There
has been too much bloodshed by you al.
ready. bhave been instructed to see them
safely through, and l will do SO or die
with them" that he then abused him,
calling him ugly names; that he identified
the prisoner at the bar as being John D,
Lee. l ..g...I .-
CLOSE OF TIE TEsrrMoNY.
The.prosecution rested their case here,
To the surprise OF all present in the
court room, Lees attorneys announced
.hlat they also rested their case, and
Would not introduce any witnesses, but
would give the case 10 tho jury ou the eyi.
dcnce already adducel by the prosecu.
ton, and asked for, a continl9nGe OF the
case untilMohday, the 18th; to give time
to prepare arguments and instructions to
die jury. ~ ~. ~ a i'.'a
Tho court adjourned till Monday at 1C