Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-07-01

A. four o'clock the guard was
changed a little after Eve. the TALLER
came In and said that stephen Mark
nam had been surrounded hy o. mob
ana driven from Carthage a little
later there was q SLIGHT niftllug no the
outer door ~ the JAN, and a cry Of
surrender, then "a discharge Of three
or four guns. Tho plot had boon car
rlod out, two hundred OF the mob came
rushing into the Jail yard. and the
guards fired their pieces over the heads
OF the assalllnE party
Many o. the mob rushed up stairs
while others fired through the open
windows 81 the jail into the room
whore the brethren were confined. The
four prisoners sprnng against tho door.
but the murderurH burst 10 partly omen
ana pushed their guns into the room.
John Taylor ana willard richards
zach with a cane tried 90 knock aside
Tho weapons A shower NJ bullets
came up the stairway and through the
door Hyrum was ne front OF the door
whom BAH struck him I'm the face and
he fell back. saying; II am 10 dead
man"
A. he was falling another bullet from
the outside passed through hIH sway
Ing form. and two others from the door
way entered his body a. moment later,
When Hyrum foll Joseph exclaimed.
"Oh my dear brother Hyrum" ana
opening the door a fuw inches. be- dis
charged pistol into the stairway
but two or three barrels missed fire.
when tho door could no longer be-
held. and when be- could no longer parry
tho guns, Elder Taylor spraug toward
the window. a bullet from the door
way struck HE lot thlrh paralyzcd
and unable 10 help himself he foll on
the window sill ana felt himself falling
out, when by some means hc 81 not
understand az the time he was thrown
backwards into the room. a bullet
fired from the outside struck his
watch and the watch saved HIS
lie In two ways, 70 stopped the
bullet which probably would have
killed him, and tho force ~ the ball
IN striking Il throw himiutO the room.
The watch stopped az sixteen minutes
and twenty seconds past o'clock,
After hc ION into the room three other
bullets s., ack him. Fp1ttoriug his blood
like rain upon the walls and noor
Joseph saw there was no longer safety
IN the room and thinking be- would
save the lie Of willard Richards n no
himself should spring from tho room.
he turned Immediately from the door,
dropped his pistol ana lcaped into the
window. Instantly two bullets pierced
him from the door ana one entered his
right breast from without, ana De zen
outward into the hands VI his murder
crs oNclaiming. "Oh, Lord, My Cod"
When hls body struck tho ground he
rolled Instantly upon HE face dead, Az
hp luy There ono OF the mob. b1ro footed
ana bnre-hcudrd, wearing no coat. with
his trousers rolled above the knees md
his shirt sleeves above his elbows solErd
the body ~ the murdered Prophet and
set 70 mp against the south slide uf tho
Won curb. Colonel Low Williams then
ordered four mon 90 shoot Joseph.
Standing about eight fgot from hts body
they nrld simultaneously, The body
slightly crlngcd aH tho bullets entered
IT, aud once more Joseph zen upon his
face Ito had smiled with sweet COM
passion In his Cuuntpuuuop ne he ruEHd
upon his murdrrcrg in tho last moment
OF hlH no; and this Was the expression
when the face was set Zoo death,
The AlsEouriung had offered q large
reward Tor Josgph'H head: ana the
ruiilau who had Hot him up against tho
wen curb. now approached with % Flit-
t1r.ug knife FOR the purpose uf seyprlng
the head from the body william Sc.
Daniels, who claims 90 have been an
eyewitness 90 the pruuvrlluEH says
that nH ne was about Go make tho awful
strulg8, vivid llrht burst from the
hJlypuH upon rho bloody scene II
passed between Joseph and his murder
ere. and they were struck win
terror, The knife ftl from the
pDNNvrlcaa hand ~ the ruf-
nan. and he stood transnNpd The
muskcta dropped from the arms OF
williams four eNecutluners, and they
had not the power 10 move a limb.
Horrlhed, the mob scattered In all