The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-09-24
A SOUTHERN SENSATION.
The Trouble Caused by an Over
dose Of Wine.
rn ths editor of THE HERA1p.

To the EQlIOH OF IKE hEBALD.
will endeavor to calm myself sufi-
GENTLY to give your readers an account
of severe shock felt throughout the
upper part of this valley last night-not
an earthquake shock, hoWever-but
murder, murder most foul. About the
hour of midnight last, Mr.. A. s. Had
don was awakened from his slumbers by
hearing two wagons coming from the
south and enter the farming premises
OF Mr.. ]. A. Ross, where he is residing
with his two sons, and the wife Of one
of the sons. He was surprised to hear
that the wagons kept on travelling so
long IN so small a space. At last l
was silent, and he ventured out OF bed,
looked from the window. and called to
his sons to investigate. They saw in the
moonlight That one of the wagons re-
malned on the premises, but the other
had gone. They drew near cautiously,
and found the horses feeding at the
haystack. The elder HaddOn called to
thesupposed occupant within the wagon,
but no sound was heard save the muncL-
ing OF the horses at the hay. One of the
young men then ventured to look into
the wagon, and there in the dim light
within he discerned the form of man,
and shouted loud to awaken him. but
alas he was gone, and the young Had
don declared TO his father and brother
that, lit is a man, and be is dead !"
And looking instinctively beneath the
wagon they discovered blood dripping
from the bottom. The fathers atten
tiol- was called TO this, he bent his aged
form, and there sure enough was the
dripping, shiny, clotted, blood of the
poor victim within that wagon, whom
they had failed to awaken. The counsel
was: LET us flee from here; II is plot
to mix US up with another Hopt
murder case" They fed, and with the
woman pale and silent arrived at the
house of Mr.. VIM. Carter, who in turn
hurried to the centre of law and order
in these parts, Bishop Gideon Murdoch. |
One of the Haddons was sent to ap-
prise the coroner. Mr.. Osborne Cooley. |
He was over the river three miles at |
Brooklyn. He rightfully took the pre- |
caution to send on TO Monroe to notify |
the authorities there to be on the look |
out and stop all travel, and also sent to |
Richtield, twelve miles distant, to notify |
Sheriff Clark, and also to have the |
folks in Elsenore to have their guards !
out and arrest all travellers. Bishop |
Murdoch was now out on the street |
armed with his sure rife-his brave |
wife was also out in her stocking feet
hunting for tracks of the murderCus
villain who had left his victim dead and
in that wagon. Presently
wheels were coming slowly, grinding
from the south, and the Bishop, rife in
hand, halted the driver, and in answer
to questions as to where he was from.
and going. whom travelling with. etc,
his hating incoherent answers satisfied
the Bishop that he had Gagged the
bird" and ordered him TO drive into
MS premises, which ..he did. Sometime
after this the Haddons yentured back
home to the Ross farm to await for
developments, when to their utter
they discovered that
he wagon had left, and
zone moth, and knowing that but
me had come from the south. they
fastened to inform Bishop Murdoch
hat the man he had arrested was the
me that was murdered, and the mur-
lerer with the other wagon had gone
through town a mile and camred at
dr. GrahamS. The dead mans name
5 Frank Coates, Jr., OF st. George. and
lis supposed murderer's name is David
dcNeal, of st. George, but the murder
7as done by Dixie wine, of which they
lad filled themselves full, gone to
leep and left their teams to wander
7hither they would; they had travelled
Ound and round Mr. Ross yard the.
ne had left; the other stopped TO eat
ay as above described. That the drip
lngs fFom the wagon were genuine. |
an aver, for | dipped my finger. into
be second pool in Bishop Murdock's
ard and tasted genuine Dixie mo-
asses, five gallon case of which had
cen upset in the wagon, unknown to
be grape juice-slaughtere victim.
beriff CLARK and another gentleman OF
u hority, arrived here about O'Clock
lis morning to trail up the bloody deed. :
imagine their Chagrin. Sheriff Clark gave
le partly resuTrected man few straight
ords of counsel and let him GO. l saw
i'm going of looking as out of tune as
n unstrung fiddle. D Dixie! if you
i'll make wine, somebody is bound to
ct drunk; We do not wish 10 say 1.-The
rapes are sour" but We do protest
yainst you hauling it $50 miles and
IZZliDg it under our very noses, dis
lrbing our peaceful slumber, turning
Ir hair gray with fright, and putting
) to expense 10 take care of your
lebriates. In future when Dave and |
rank come this way, send along a
arse.
GEORGE A BIRD.
JOSEPH CITY, September 10, 1886. I
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