The New York herald., 1877-10-01

the otakins or Of the four centiles vas dscidsd
upon. During the same night on which the
by the council started southwark and the Genties st
remaining under escort of Rockwell renewed their
reached a good camping place BY the banks OF .
stream Rock well told them tnat that she oest
camping place they would hnd that DAY, and there
they we're 10 stop over night.
THE MrRDgRrRs JoIx THE CAMP.
Tho party OF Mormons who had started out ahead OF
them on the previous night had wheeled round and
came up TO them, AZ II were, unexpectedly and asked
PERMISSION TO JOIN their camp for the night After
supper weary removed their belts with their
pistols aud knives, took on their heavy
coats and drew them their bodies
tney lard themselves down for the night.
They we're soon asleep That there should BE-
no sudden awakening OF any or them by the
mssnre Of revolver the murderers had provided
themselves with clubs and the kngboIts OF the
wagons. Two Of them were Instantly killed John
Aiken was but slightly wounded and sprnsing to his
Of the MormoDs laid him seuseess the ground.
The "Coioneln fed ana reached the brush, carrying
and believing, as hc did that the whole
party had been attacked by the banditi,
,~a nv as fpam nm. n,acs ,hs, tps murdorsran
gone He travelled twenty i've miles during the night,
and when he again behed the people he had left only
the moruing before, ne thought he was once more
safe aud atcd to them the incidents OF the attack
which they affected TO hear wilh horror Before tho
murderers left tue camp where the attack made
they threw the three bodies the river and John
Aiken, who was not mortally wounded they sup.
posed revived sufficiently be able crawl into ths
brush, Ia the darkness was unseen. He overheard
the murderers and Rockwell speak OF had
spired leaving no doubt upon his mind that the Nor
mons hac acted by concert TO kill them all He
managed to get back the next day TO Ncph for there
nowhere else to 20, and there he Joined the
"Coonel.f Their wounds were dressed and they
advised 10 return 10 salt Lake, and whom they
four miles tho way they were treacnerously
murdered, their bodies were loaded with rock and
thrown into swamp.
rnE MURDER or THE LAST TWO.
The two others VINO remained Salt Lake az
terward taken by Rockwell and his associates south.
ward and when At .ihe point OF the mountains,' on
the southern river OF tho salt Lake basin. they
muderously attacked. Buck, though wounded, fed
and plunged into the Jordan, swan to the opposite
shore and got back TO the city He related HE
story To many persons sili there who Will.
ing TO testify to what he informed them. Hs
was soon alterward induced To with = proessed
miles out OF the city he was shot through tue hoac
ana buried by the roadside The murder OF the last
one Was, no doubt, the work OF the notorious Bill
Hickman Rockwells associate for he relates the CIR
cumstanres In his coniessons with such m nuteness
TO leave doubt that he did the deed He closes his
narrative tnat murdcr with ming sim pcity "Tha
man, Buck" says he, ''got u shot through the head
and was put across the icnce in ditch. rag was
hung on "A bush to know the place. We returned to
the clsy 10 General Grants, as per agreement. and
found MIN at home with Genera! klmbal .. r. Rock
vol ana somebody else whose name / do recolicct
now. They asked II all was hight, and l told them
u was Tney cot spades ana we all went back, deep
ened the ditch. put him and buried him. returned
TO Grants, took some whiskey and separated for the
night"
Tho reader OF such heartless and treachcrous mur-
dcrs cannot but wish that cvory guilty man among
them may speedily be brought to Judgment.