Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-03-07

NN"hh ulH"t iN'li hullNN8 an NlHp eis
uoua-l say thofu b. ul doubt that the
Carthage dreys were c0guzant OF IN.
aci that that mob wa- coming. / b..
liuyc every man oi them knew 10, aud
also believe that ihWr guns were
charged vita blank cartridge. Whe
ihUy hfui % lew Shots 10 the mob uU
one was huft The faces ni tho mJU
were painted Kind uf Indian collf
"lhu CNtthasu Grcys were very
nicely uriliuI com .uy. 10 would
seem a. mo that tie mob werc not
any larger iu LumUut than tile Gar.
image Gfryr Figm my recollection
mink tue lumber was yory nearly ruusl
about thitty OF forty nae ia cacu. !
10 uJt hrlIuve that tho estimate OF
one hundred mon IN the mob ia al
ull correct Probably There were
nity 10 eighty iu tao mou; I Thought
there were less. IL was uuIuf.
stCod there At the timo that Thomas
e.. Sharp was the rurltadrf-
the moving spirit Do thnImIb. lie
commenced HE as al attorney, bat llI
not succeed, aud bee mo nrwsuappf
editor Muyn I last saw him, several
yulfs ago, he was quite agrI. I know
there was tuuh mAu 49, William
NJ. pAuiuls, uut DO M. know wuat d..
came Of him. / knew Frank Wufrcl,
commander of tuu guard ut the Jaii.
Ito was Afterwards EIllpI outside u
N1ly0u, during the Mormon war boo
1870. / nlaD E.rw Alexander SIMPSON
AMI hissous. They were Ht me tI.
Ihcy Wufn fiery auti.M IfmDHs.
81 REMEMBER 10 have srou JusepL
smith Jump from the Wiuuow. IL wur
terribly exciting tImc nuI ItaIl
happened Ia au instant. cannot
described 10 Ia nuy better way than
by saying he came Out lust a. though
some one big anu powerful had thrown
MIN fight thf0u h tue window. Ia.
uuub,tdIy, however, he came by his
uwu effort lie crttsinIy did not naug
10 thu window. IL seems ~ mo he
came out head flfst, Aud be was shot
while pa,siug through the window. /
DO net know that really saw nny one
vet him up against tue well. I know /
partially saw II nn1 got 10 from what
they said at the lime.
81 could not hear distinctly what
Joseph sild when hr fell, lut it seemed
10 me 10 be-, 20 Lord, My Cod, That
was all hu said. / think he faisuI him.
tclt % sitting position. 4 young man
Wuntup and struck him either with
che Gnu OF his gun Ur u bay0uut, after
he was dead, you may say. / did not
notice whether they died into him
after he was set up by the we'll. 1
have tbs idea, however, that the
young mau went up 60 hun aud ran
his b.yonei through HIM, or rushed
az him with hls sun, l go uOt believe
there waHa gun fired after he struck tue
ground, Aud still 1 may be- mistake D.
4 Tell you thOse bullets came inslan.
tane0usiy.
81 did not notice any one raise a |
kuiic for the purpose Of sOvtfiug
Joseph's head from bis body, but |
heard NJ the time that a young
man did 10. Those thingB might
have been true. Was not one
OF the mob, but was one OF the
uiHbanded posse. / was going 10
the pasture alter my horse, and was
20 clIse NJ the time that N had been
dressed like the mob might have been
considered one OF their number. Tho |
young man who struck Joseph claimed |
u bo son Of Governor BOggs. lie |
rushed from the mob after Joseph was
set up anu struck him with tue point |
OF hlH gun or bayOnOt, aud SAID, Odd |
u-u YOU you are the man inst had |
my father shot, OF c0urse JOseph |
smith might have been alive with the |
bullets In his body, aud have got him.
sef up. 1 am satisfied he was alive |
then, 10 agun was fired at him after
hu tell from the window I DOME 10.
member u, My memory II dim on
some things, but / know there was
grta, u1ciirmuntJ Just At tue time.
"luu ming was all done In mo.
muui Then there was a SOFT u ruclg.
milton between tho Carthage Gfrys
aud tue m b, as they mingled together
after Joseph was lying dead uu the
ground, I remember now that there
Wa some talk right on tue gruu u
there wilhln twenty minutes after the
gssasalulti0n about u man going up |
with knife ~ cut OIL JUscph's head or
ulapmOOwel him. / di1 not hear any |
reason given Why he did not carry out
his threat | merely heard tho young
man say what / have stated ~ hu
made llnge NJ MIN. wAsawny
perhaps eleven OF twelve feet. The
guns were rattliug anu tue mon were
swearing.
"ln little while the mob went
back the way they came, " herel under
STOOD they had animals ~ help them
away. Q uld not recognizes the moU.
beers very VOL, because OF their die.
guisr, tut | remember sharp, Hen.
bricks, Davis aud some OF the others,
who were afterwards known IA
having been there. 10 was ter
rlble decd, anu the law aud order
people there have NO excuse for
IL. We werc not civilized there then
M We are now, but there was nothing |
10 Justify the assassination. IL was the
work OF :ufy -MurmOns, VINO
wanted the MOrm0ns driven OUT Of tho
,tate.n
C1l. Darrell IL VI years Of age, a
little above medium height, well built,
with grey HAIR anu muslauhe. lilo has
A military bearing, anu served Ia the
U niou army three years during the
rebellion. lie followed the law busi.
ness until about twelve years ago,
when no entered tho newspaper field,
In which he now does WORK OCCASION
,lly, but IL taking life easy, M no IL
Without tho care OF family aud has
means 10 keep INN comfortably, lie
will remain In SAT- Lake q low days,
'ud then proceed on bis journey East,