, 1884-09-04
DODGING DEATH.
A Detectives Narrow Escape
From Mob Vengeance.
He Concludes Not to Investi-
gate Mormon Murders.
Horrible Arctic Yarns Denied
by the Survivors.
A Detectives Marrow ESCAPE


Frank Moore, Of Evansville, Ind, passed
through this city to-day on his return
home from Louis county, Tenn, where he
went to work up a case against the citi-
zens who killed the Mormon elders, Barr
and Gibbs. He said: 4 visited Lewis
county to ascertain some clues which
would lead to the arrest of the mob en-
gagged in the murder. Meeting a citizen
l asked him il he knew any of the m
Of the parties concerned in the killing, to
which he replied he knew all of them, and
would reveal their names if | gave him
$50. He made an appointment with me
to meet him in the woods, and said he
would have one of the guilty parties pres
ent. L kept the appointment, but had
hardly got under the old beech tree, when
l was surrounded by forty or fifty masked
men. They asked me why l came to
Lewis county. l told them | came TO get
the names of the parties implicated in the
Mormon massacre. The captain then or
dered the men to hang me. They put a
rope around my neck. 1 begged piteous-
ly for my life, and they finally agreed to
let me go, giving me one hour to leave
Lewis county. AT this time they had the
moose around my neck and the loose end
over the limb of a tree, and were about to
haul me up. Before letting me go they
pinned a red cross made of cloth on my
shirt and told me to leave my coat open.
| was so scared l took the railroad track
near Mount Pleasant and walked to the
next station. l will not return south.
The Latest Arctic Yarn Denied
CLEVELAND, September 3.-Sergeants
Brainard and Long, and Private Connolly,
of the Greedy expedition, now here, were
shown this morning kilograms from Wash
ington stating that an army officer who
has seen the diaries Of the expedition says,
the survivors, when found, were in two
parties; one headed by Brainard and the
other by Long, living separately as two
tribes, and refusing to speak to each
other; hat Greedy was an invalid the
last two months, and the party headed by
Brainard cared for him like a child; that
the stealing of rations was a common
practice; that the hunters sent out for birds
concealed them for themselves. Each of
these statements Brainard, Long and
Connolly deny emphatically. All insist
the party was not divided, but while five
slept IN the wall tent, Brainard and Long
slept together under the fly of the tent
because the interior was not large enough
for all. Sergeant Brainard says Lieuten-
ant Greedy walked out every day and was
able and competent to command the par
ty, which he did throughout. All agree
that nobody except Henry was shot. A
special report of the same army officer
says; ''Brainard, when found, was much
stronger than the rest, and when he came
aboard the Bear surprise was expressed at
it; and when he was asked why that was,
he said, oh, | could eat the stuff and di
gest it, but the others could not. When
some one of the rescuing party remarked
the absence of DR.. PAWS body, and ex-
pressed wonder as to what became of it,
Brainard said, He is all gone. | finished
the last Of him just before you arrived "
This being shown Sergeant Brainard, he
said: 81 don't know who the army officer
is, but who ever he may be, he is a SLAM
derer. | was not the strongest of the
party. and moreover was not on the
Bear, but came home on the Thetis. The
story is a lie out of the whole cloth.
Sergeant Long aud Private Connolly cor
roborated his denial.