The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-05-17
NEW YORK HERALD THURSDAY NAY H. l877-TRIPLE SHEET


Kansas City .Dr forney apprenticed me at lrsi 10
man banned SION. There, about six months after.
ward was heard OF and taken churgc Of by my UNCLE
| Mr Whiting 7. stayed With Him from the winter OF
1859 10 the spring Of ISL. went into the service
the latter year under Cd friend OF my father who
| Is in Congress. Billy Williams Iio vas sent to
Washington from the north part CT Indiana AS Tor
| me- stayed IN the army through three enlstmcnts.
was discharged in 1866 In that year
came Utah. cnticed by promises OF
| some $4,000 10 $4,000 which Robert Hswicy,
OF Kansas CITY, told inc could get establish N.Y.
| sell IN business in Salt Lake CITY, was gwen
understand that this money woald TURN she'd by
| the Mormons a kind OF set-on Tor the murder Of
| my people. got noihlrg from the Normons, OF
course, and had TO leave the country mighty quick
TO save my life. They thought, l suppose that
knew too much. went to Montana ia ths spring of
1866. and earned money that year n the
sprlng Of 1861 returned to Utah for revenge That
has been my object IN Itch ever since, aud people
down in southern Utah know H.
"Iou mean by revenge | suppose, that you
| wanted To punish tho men who killed your people,"
That's exactly H. First hunied Ire mp at Old
| Hasnony was old enough then to look nm In tho
eyes without getting up ON Il tootsloo lIe accom-
| panied me 10 Paugulich, where | met Stewart,
| Haish iiisbcc and stranger applied TO hem-I
| cmembcr II \ day when Damc Was present
Tor stock and money that riqhtiully belonged
TO my father at tho tinc Of tho mas.
sacrc, and which, It's equivalent, wanted.
coadu't et The least Satisfaction and Tor four yoars
| tried 10 get even with them another way. l
worked part OF tho ume aud hunted them tho OF
the time. Once got very near them found their
| camp 10 the mountains where they were scouting aud
Keeping away from the officers, only three Jour
hours after they had lett But never could get a fair
SIGHT o. them. THIS lasted uniil 1871. when went 10
ri..It
back again to southern Utah lett Utan again IN
1877, for Idaho; returned the winter OF lS123 and
spent nearly the whole OF that winter hunting after
those Mountain MeaIows lends | mot Lee toward
spring, and was stood Oh by from
II would stay out OF the Territory make lss and
say nothing should have ST., 900 whicn they would
RAISE ANA pay to certain times during tho
next year. OF course got 4 cent: they never
fulfilled any Of their promises out OF mcney
and had 10 let thcm until year ago last New
YEARS., 1875 Then started alter them agan, anu
got INTO this trouble about ihe trcasure-box on tho
gtarc.n
THE ''tr0uble" winch Idaho Bill so modcstly al
luies to was the result OF the robbery n stage
non oil winch he was convicted al the same OF
the court with John d. Lee, which he was SON.
fenced 10 ten years imprisonmcnt-En. HERALD
CONFIRMATION OATH.
! now reverted TO the story which Idaho Bill had
from Brigham Young, and gave him. one after the
other the following nuts TO crack:-.'(l) Will you
swear that you heard Amasa Lyman read tho letter
dated August To- 1857, and that you have a correct
copy Of II 50 far and meaning OF IL cor
2l VIII You swear TO what you have told In regard
To MIS- Lees giving you the original letter from
Brigham Young to Lee written after Tho massacre?
(3l VIII you swear to the statement you have made in
regard to your preservation oil that letter IRON your
chidhoody ~ Are you able 10 swear that you hayo
given mo from memory accurate transcript OF that
Lottery t6 Can you that the letter Is actually
In Brigham Young's handwritingy 49, DO you swear
that you know the present whereabouts OF tho letter?
"a Gao you produce tho ettcrs and ~ will you produce
II to mo TO Mr.. Howard United States District
Attorney IT, on its proof to be genuine, you obtain the
promise Of your liberlyY"
To these questions Id tho Bill gave prompt and dcl
INTO answers, taking his solemn oath the afirma-
tive. except when no qualified II by saying that
"pcrhars he hadn't got every word In tho let.
ters exactly straight, but tho meaning aud almost
every sentence no was wouldn't DO atered 70
AnOans amy thhg thcs copies o. he sssssss
which read to him compared with The
origInalsn When | called his attention snow to The
Improbable tale that Brigham Young had commit
tod himself writing that Caroline Lees wife, had
intrustcd him, mere chiid with document which
common sense must have assured might DO neccs-
for the protection OF her husbands lc and that
she, who good terms with her husband IN to
the time OF his execution omitted forward md
cite such letter IN his behalf. Whom called to his
attention these discrepancies and also the TACT that
neither Leo himself nor his avorite wife, Rachel who
with him TO the last aud who lust have been in.
formed by Ice OF such letters II they ever writ.
ten, offered TO produce copies OF them them
In ucicnce Idaho Bill squared himse aud entered
| upon this explanations
FAITH IN BRIGHAM
Don't you sco,n he said 'that Ice had lost these
letters and had no shown Don't you that Caroline
Lee had parted with tho principal letter written BY
Brigham Young to me, and could not produce IT. ana
don't you see. further that Rachel probably never
tue letter ana that II do her statement about
Il wouldn't have been worth anything IN courts What
would have been tho oil Leo or Racnel
| or Carolluc or body else going into court
aud swearing 70 such letters !. they couldn't show
them? Leo supposed that these letters werc stolen
with the OF his paers years ago from n house at
| Lonely Del. Ferry. Why, suppose Leo told me atty
times while we were in prison at Beaver together that
| II he could ouly get hold OF a letter that Brigham
Young wrote him he could snap his iugcrs at ihcn all
Just 10 iantaiizc hun | told him a iitte about the
Brigham Young letter that have Ia my possession. /
didn't tell nim exactly had the letter lust told
him enough of 10 let him know that God wlat
1t was. He said to me- .l}i you know good deal
more than thought you did, and from that timc he
commenced TO make up to mo aud tried nnd out all
knew. He promised that II would assist him when
he wanted me to with my testimony hc would sec that
got out 81 prison all safe Hut never gave my fu
confidence 10 John y. Ice; damn him, 1 wanted HIM
10 de. Notwithstanding his belief that he would get
or | never took any stock in IT, l was convinced
that he dead man, sure Hc thought
to the very last that Brigham Young would
him. just here los the final answer to
your question Why these letters have got we're
not alluded 10 BY Lee or his wives his decncc, and
why Lee aiin't call to help HIM by tcsiyng to
what knew about Brigham Young He had gwen up
all hope through everybody but Brigham Youn.
Brigham Young, you remember Tor, Il you don't eau