The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-07-21

lIy discovered US and shut the door.
VAN hopel VIII, with one stroke of
ms axe, opened it, and we entered and
! found Mrs. Turner and Mrs. Newsone
/ IN the middle Of room, almost fright
! ened to death. Will immediately killed
/ MIS- Turner with one blow of his axe.
l took Mrs. Newsome by the hand.
and with the sword had when l was
/ apprehended, [ struck her severa |
blows over the head, but not being
able to kill her. as the sword was
! dull, VIII, turning round and dicover-
ing 1t. dispatched her. A general de-
StructlOn of property and search for
money and ammunition always sue
ceeded the murders.
BY this time my company amounted
to fifteen, and nine men mounted, who
Startei for Mrs. Whitehead's the
other xix were to go through a by
way to Mrs. Bryant's, and rejoin us
at Mrs Whitehead 81. AS we ap-
preached the house we discovered Mr..
Whitehead standing in the cotton
patch, near the lane fence; we called
him over into the lane, and Will, the
eXecutioner, was near at hand with
his fatal axe, to send him to an I'M
timely grave. AS we pushed on to the
house I discovered some one running
round the garden, and thinking it was
some of the white family. I pursued
girl belonging to the house, I returned
to commence the work of death, but
they whom I left had not been idle.
All the family were already murdered
but Mrs. Whitehead and her daughter
Margaret AS I came round to the
door I saw VIII pulling Mrs White
head out of the house, and at the
step he nearly severed her head from
her body with his broad axe.
Miss Margaret, when [ discovered
her, had concealed herself in the corner
formed by the projection of the cellar
stoop from the house; on my approach
she fed, but was soon overtaken, and
after repeated blows with q sword. l
killed by a blow on the head with
a fence rail. BY this time, the six who
had gore to Mr. Bryant's reioined us,
and informed me that they had done
the work assigned them. We again di-
vided part going to Mr.. Richard Por-
ter's. and from thence to Nathaniel
Francis, the other TO Mr.. NOVEL; Har-
ris' and Mr.. T. Doyle's.
The Alarm Given.
"On my reaching Mr.. Porter's, he had
escaped with his family. [ understood |
there that the alarm had already
spread, and 1 Immediately returned to !
bring up those sent to Mr.. Doyle's and |
Mr.. Howell Harris's; the party l left |
going on to Mr.. Francis, having told |
them I would rejoin them in that !
neighborhood. I met those sent to Mr.. /
Doyle's and Mr.. Harris returning. hav-
ing met Mr.. Doyle on the road and /
killed him; and learning from some
who joined them that Mr.. Harris was
taken home. I Immediately pursued the
course taken by the party gone on be-
fore; but knowing they would complete
the work Of death and pillage at Mr.
Francis before I could get there, 1
vent to Mr.. Peter Edwards, expecting
10 find them there, but they had been
here also.
81 then went to Mr.. John T. Bar
'ow's; they had been there and muir
Tered him. I pursued on their track
% Captain hewitt Harris, where 1
,ound the greater part mounted and
'eady to start. The men, now amount
ng TO about forty, shouted and hur-
'ahed as 1 rode up; some were in the
Yard loading their guns; others drink
ng- They said Captain Harris and his
amily had escaped, the property in
he house they had destroyed, robbing
lin of money and other valuables. I
'rdered them to mount and march in