Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-14

within the fort: some of them at least
from the upper galleries OF the bar
racks
The testimony further shows that
the troops then came our oyer the
walls. some of them perhaps going
through the gate. and advanced a
distance of 800 yards or thereabouts
into the town. During their advance
they shot into two hotels and some
nine or ten other houses. Three of
the private houses into which they
fired contained women and children.
They deliberately killed Frank Natus,
the bartender. shooting him down
from a distance Of about Is yards.
They shot at man and woman, Mr..
and Mrs. Odin, and their little boy,
as they stood in the window Of the
Miller hotel, the bullet going less than
Two inches from the head of the wo-
man. They shot down the lieutenant
OF police, who was on horseback. KILL
ing his horse and wounding him so
that his arm had 10 he anputated.
They attempted to kill the two police
men who were his companions, shoot
ing one through the hat. They shot
at least eight bullets into the Cowen
house. putting out a lighted lamp on
the dining room table. Mrs. Cowan
and her five children We're in the
house. they at once threw themselves
prone on the floor and We're not hit.
They fired into the Starck house. the
bullets going through the mosquito
bar Of a bed from is to 90 inches
above where little children were sleep
ing
WHEN SHOOTING TOOK PLACE.
The shooting took place near mid
night Tho panic caused by the ut
terly unexpected attack was great. The
darkness. of course. increased the con-
fusion. There Is conflict of testimony
on some OF the minor points. but
every essential point Is established be-
yond possibility of honest question.
The careful examination of Mr.. purdy,
assistant TO the attorney general, re-
suited in strengthening the reports al
ready made By the regular army au-
thorities. The shooting. it appears,
occupied about 10 minutes. although II
may have been some minutes more
or less. 1t Is ont of the question that
the % or 20 men engaged in the as
sault could have gathered behind the
wall of the fort, begun firing, some of
them on the porches of the barracks.
gone out into the town, fired In the
neighborhood of 200 shots IN the
town and then returned-the total
Tine occupied from the time Of the
first shot to the time Of their return
being somewhere in the neighborhood
or 10 minutes without many of their
comrades knowing what they had
done. indeed. the fuller details as es-
tablishcd by the additional evidence
taken since | last communicated with
The senate make IL likely that there
were few. IL any of the soldiers dis
missed who could have been ignorant
OF what occurred II Is well nigh i'm
possible that any of the non-commis-
stoned officers who were at the bar
racks should not have known what
occurred.
EVIDENCE is CONVINCING.
The evidence thus taken renders II
III my opinion impossible to question
the conclusions upon which my order
was based. | have gone most carefully
over every issue Of law and fact that
has been raised. / ain now satisfied
that the effect OF my order dismsslng
these men without honor was not 10
bar them from ali civil employment
under the government and therefore
that the part OF the order which con-
sisted OF declaration TO this effect
was lacking In validity. and | have
that such portion be revoked
AZ 10 the rest OF the order dsmlsslng
the individuals IN question without
honor and declaring the effect OF such
lions TO be bar TO their future re-
enlistment either in the army or the
navy, there Is no doubt OF my oonstitu.
tional and legal power. The order WA
within my discretion. under the con-
stitntion and the laws. and cannot be
reviewed or reversed save by another
executive order. The facts did not
merely warrant the action took--they
rendered such action imperative unless
was to prove false 10 my sworn duty.
III any one of the men discharged
he n clear OF guilt. or OF shielding the
guilty. ! win take what action IL war
ranted; but the circumstances | be-
lieva above detailed ,noat na.sa,,,t,,