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

At four o'clock the guard was
changed. a little after Eve. thu TALLER
came In md said that Stephen Mark
ham had been surrounded by mob
and driven from Carthage. 4 little
later there was slight ruFtllng ut the
outer door Of the jhil. and a cry 81
surrender then discharge of three
or four guns. The plot had been care
Rcd OUT two hundred " the mob came
rushing into the iail yard. and the
guards fired their pieces over the heads
OF the nssnillng party
Many 0f the mob rushed up stairs
while others fired through the open
windows % the JAIN into the room
who're the brethren were confined. The
four prisoners HprunE against tho dDuT.
but tho murdorprH burst 10 partly open
and pushed their guns into the room.
John Taylor ana willard Richards.
zach with u cane. tried 20 knock aside
the weapons, A shower ~ bullets
came up the stairway and through the
door. HNrum was ln front uf tho dour
when a ball struck him in the face and
he fell back, saying Il am "a dead
man"
A. he was falling another bullet from
the outside passed through hlH sway
INK form, and two others from the door
way entered his body o. moment later.
When Hyrum fell Joseph exclaimed
"Oh. my dear brother iiyruml" aud
opening the door q frw inches. he dis
charged % pistol into the stairway
but two or three barrels missed nrc.
when The door could no longer be
held and when he could no longer parry
the guns, Elder Taylor sprang toward
the window, a bullet from the door
way struck hls lot thigh. Parulyacd
and unable 10 help himself be- fcll on
the window sill, and felt himself falling
out, when by some means he 81 not
understand az the tlmc he was thrown
backwards into the room, a bullet
fired from the outside struck hiH
watch ana the watch saved his
life In two ways Il STOPPED the
bullet which probably would have
Killed him, and tho force uf the ball
iu striking IL throw him Into the room.
The watch stopped at sixteen minutes
and tWuntN-HlN seconds past o'clock,
After he fen into tho room three other
bullets struck him, sputturlng his blood
like rain upon the wallis and noor
Joseph saw thrrr was no longer safety
I'm the room; and thinking be- would
save the NE OF willard Richards " no
himself should spring from the room,
he turned Immediately from the door,
dropped his pistol ana lgaped into the
window, Instantly two bullets pierced
him from the door and one entered his
right breast from without and Dee ZEN
outward into the hands uf bis murder
erH cNclalming; "Oh, Lord, My Cod"
when his body struck tho ground he
rolled instantly upon hiH face dead. AZ
he lay there one OF the mob. hBre footed
and hurc-hcldrd. wearing no coat with
his trousers rolled above tho knees md
his shirt sleeves above hIH elbows. seized
the body of thr murdered Prophet lud
Get It mp against tho south side 90 the
VOL curb. Colonel Low Williams then
ordered four mon 90 Shoot Joseph,
Standing about eight foot from his body
they fred simultaneously The body
slightly crlngcd a8 the bullets entered
it. aud once more Joseph Zen upon bis
face, lie had smiled with sweet COM
passion IN hls countonuuor uH be- ruzed
upon his mur1rrcrs in the last moment
OF hlH lie; aud this was the expression
when the face was Het ln death
The MlsFourIans had offered u large
reward Tor Josgph'H head. ana the
ruiian who had set him mp against tho
wen curb now approached with "a Fllt-
tnrlug knife Tor the purpose of Hoyor.ug
the head from the body, William 81.
Daniels. who claims Go have been an
eyewitness TO the proceedings, says
that nH he was about 90 make the awful
atrulls, 10 vivid light burst from tho
heavens upon the bloody scene 10
passed between Joseph and his murder
ers, and they were struck with
terror The knife fcll from the
puworloHH hand NJ the Tufa
IAN. and he stood tnnsnxcd Tho
muFkctH dropped from the arms OF
Williams four cNecutIoners and they
had not the power 90 move u limb.
Mortified, the mob scattered In all