Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-05-27

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Like morning paper some weeks ago.
The sr,lcIe tails how that heart
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graves OF people buried In the city
csmetrry where he WAS employed o.
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connected with the discovery anu ex
posure OF the horrible business; ofierI
a peryoftei md ridiculous narration oil
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ment TO an Island In the Lake, anu a.
q fitting conclusion announces "ths
| ghastly s,ouelv which briefly summsd
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ago party OF hunters near tho mouth
OF the Jordan river where II smptios
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The tale is Indeed a gruosome one; but
IL better to hear ana shudder over facts
than tables. From reliable sources the
News has obtained ths following,
though IN order to give n complete
account OF Baptiste's horrible work
and no less terrible fate II will DO neces.
snry 10 ante. date the discovery Of his
crime:
On the last day OF December, 1881,
Governor Dawson fled from Utah,
having made Improper proposals TO
well known Salt Lake society
lady of TINT period, who In
dignanlly resented his advance,
and Informed her friends Of the gov.
ernor,s disgrsceiul conduct. On tho
night following tho day that Cover
nor Dawson commenced his filght he
was ovo,takon nj Hanlss' station at
Mountain Dell between the Big and
Little Mountains, set upon and badly
beaten by n band III men among
whom were JASON Luce, Lit Hunt.
ington. Wool RsypoIds ana Moroni
Clawsuu. One of these mon was n
relative of the insulled Indy anu
hs Justified his lnwIess behavior on
thai ground. or the auartette named
aboys md the copfeierstes, ons
was shot and killed by Deputy Sheriff
q. p. RookwelI a few days later. on
January 10Th, 1852, at Faust's station,
rooel, ,ountv. willis attempting 60
escape from the ofiicers. soon after.
wards two Others. shared n slmilar fate
In an encounter with tho Salt Lake
poIice on S.cond South stre.t. near
where the Walker Opera House block
now stands, The desperadoes who were
killed had long been n terror 10 ths
and general relief was
felt nfIer thsir denu bodies were laid
away in tbe city cemetery
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loue.rninu these tr,yedies md tbs
they bear r. Bantiste,s
phoulish work Harry Heath an nIa
end veil tnown Salt Lake. falls
Nrvs renort,r. al was n maaber ~,
M, Salt lat, nnlica faro. In 1870
Rapt,sie was n Frenchman and cam.
Nor. from Australia somo wears h,r,rs
and was employed ma a uraye diygor hv
I,oI 4 n lin, who was than ,I,y
sexton and who now lives nj Mn,gan
civ IJtah' ,Rone, Clawson an. y,
inc man aboee r, f,rred In. was hurled
nj the az nense of the couotv NM.
chased bis clotbes mvseli and ,hnw".h
ha Was n ye,v bad man I wantas 10 %
hir, laid ayav NJ nice,y as noss,hI'
This 4 aid and don,i bs,iay. anv
n.,,n.r .y.r had b,tt.r mr. c,san.,hn
crlo,hinv than h.. " N '"''"'
WSooS after / went south IN og,c,a,