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Show fr as I know them, stating THE UEAVEU from malice or for the purpose TRUL, nothing Uu The following letter ofrereage, holding that I can state of from Be.T Confession. John D. Lee,of Mountain Meadow my own knowledge willing that the SATTKDAT and WEDNESDAY was done and PublUtd ery world may know all that notoriety, is about to turn State's HORRIBLE "DISCLOSURES. by the Oodes Publishib Compaht. I were submit committed, acts the why evidence, and all Utah Gentjle ity "Amasa Lyman, orizinll the following as the exact unrarying . Charle IV. Penrose, Editor. are in breathless expectation in the to theS. L. Herald.) statements of facts and circumstances Twelve, but now dispatched (Special a. E. STRATFORD, Datintti Manager, tr connected with the crime known as the of a new branch of Juu hope that he will inculpat e Brigham Bearer, July 20. crime. massacre: atrocious Meadow in Mormon, that negade Mountain in Young Lrts gl'T Judge Sutherland this morning asked At this point the pages of the confes herein Beaver.aiding the UTAH. Omaha Herald. that the ijdiatment against Colonel on the ground that sion relatmg to the details of the massa attorneys to expose tho Dame be SATURDAY, JULY 24, 187i. "Jess so." That's what's the there was quashed, ng ;in the slaughter at MoSf ere were refused reporters for the prea defect in it. He had inowe His appearance has was character their ' but and sent, permitted matter with 'em, Dr. But if hope tended to orerlook the discrepancy, little excitement follows. as ed be ( in this oomrl sta to Lee's ) Reporter. that learning AX K-1- ,1 deferred maketh the heart eick," they go to trial on it, but case I) LIT II OF IjADY Lee gives at great length & detailed. What the result of hi, tUhwrnT?" tried, he made would be the first . will be the eiekest crowd on the con- the request to quash. The error was concise and alleged perfect statement of altogether conjecture, but H is beli' fa'4 not alleged to ha?e the acts and facts connected with the generally he will dearth tinent before and after the trial i? that the erime was that hare names the of been the of dormantin nor tkatJ,. long news massacre, the persons, in giring Tho telegraph brings been committed Territory DJ concluded. They may hope, and any county of it, but simply in the dates and places. He claims to fully of those who acted under misu death of Lady FraBklin, widow of of men the all classes and man time Mr. iaeaofdutyat every oft Carey expose and then the "in- Mountain Meadow Valley. He starts and aided in carrying out the orders Jf Sir John Franklin, the fated Arctic hope against hope, a new indictment connected with the outrage. immediately presented d culpation" won't stick, but the whole charging Lee, Dame, Elliott, Wilden, with his first knowledge of the emigrant those in authority, wm now j explorer. Lady Jane Franklin was advice of Lyman, make a full unfortun their Jean 1 C. following through Wm. train, Adair, jun., Stuart, George be will affair "unsatisfactory." the daughter of John Griffin Esq , M. Highee, Isaac C. Haight, Samuel ate experiences and conflicts up to the of what they know of the affair, he responsibility Jukes and Phillip Klingen Smith with termination of their sad career. He de properly where il F. S. A., was of French descent on ongs Bill Hickman of murderous Z with the Indians to kill cer- Bcribes all that was done by the murder conspiriag in born A KEW SENSATION. the mother's sida, and was tain emigrants, and ia accordance with era after the commission of the crime, tonety, is here also, giving aid to th. married thai conspiracy did kill them. It is and the action of all connected with it; prosecution and comfort to the London in 1805. She was The fashionable ladies of English thought the indictment will be read to- also the action of Brigham Young and witnesses. Colonel William H.wavering Dame i to Sir John Franklin in 182G, and be arraigned and the priesthood; also the acts of those in now confined at Fort Cameron. He u will Lee when morrow, new a have upper-ten-dosubject authority, the disposition of the children in fine .health and very much pleased at accompanied him to his post when of plead to it. relieve the monto conversation, saved, and the particulars of their de the near approach of his trial. He j, lkk's statement. appointed Governor oi Van Dieraan'a to Dr. Forney, the agent of tho apparently certain of an weather usual of the lirery dialogue. acquittal otony 20. Bearer, land. government, who removed them to Mis John D. Lee is in fair health. His whM is a matter of serious interest and It is enabled by souri. and children are here giving all the aid The Herald reporter Lady Franklin has gained world- involves the excitement of W.W. Bishop, attorney of of the Lee of The statement they can to the counsel to prepare for courtesy explains fully inspection D. to for the John trial. But, aside Irom his family wide fame, sympathy and admiration Lee, Ner., Pioche, give for what reason, and how the as well as the pleasure of talk. The the following sketch of the confession of why, Lee has no aid, comfort or support from was the accomplished, stating tragedy for her indefatigable efforts to disThese Lee, which seta out the character of the justification relied upon by the partici any of the Latter-Da- y novel subject is, coffins. Saints in Utah cover the fate of her husband and his It seems that he is deserted by all but document, which ia rery lengthy. for the that of fearful communion pants solici-tud- o cheerful objects of aristocratic his family and his attorney. s" Mr; Bishop said after he got to Bearer crime. companions, who sailed on tho TerThe details fix the responsibility for are discussed ia all grades of he found the excitement against Lee ror and Erebus which were lost in and the people beliered he should the crime upon Isaac C. Haight and Jno. from royalt circles down great, "society, to appease the Moloch of M. Higbee, commanding officers, tho sacrificed be A Chinese young lady is the Arctic seas. Expeditions were aaappli. Coffins! the hour. He believed he could not get former standing on an eminence and cant for a teacher's to the sphere of snobbery. ia one of place fitted out at her own cost, and she consented and in that trial Utah, giring the signal agreed upon for the the public schools of San Francisco. What on earth should call up such ahisfair should turn State's eridence to slaughter. After the emigrants had been client Government British the to appealed She insists that she canusnatchee a grave subjeet among such fastidi- get immunity for his own aots. decoyed out of their stronghold by a flag as well as to the United States for small alle same Meli-ca- n The prosecution agreed to 'enter a of truce, the wounded were hauled out boy ous people? nolle prosequi as to the first indictment and miss. frid and There were engaged dispatched. There is something new in the absolutely, Lee to take his chanoea as to in the massacre thirty white men and a After Captain McClintnck succeedAfter a long con- large number of Indians. The details coffin line, and one of the leaders of future indictments. uGracious heavens, doctor! Do you sultation with his associate counsel he of the killing of men, women and child ed in establishing tho fact that Sir mean to tell me that I must do withfashion of whom there are but very agreed to it, and so advised Lee, and the ren surpass in horror all that has erer Johu perished with several of his out stimulants altogether?" "Certhat if the confession been written few, for most people are only sheep- prosecution agreed concerning the massacre. party in 1847, Lady Franklin con- like followers has taken hold of the was satisfactory they would dismiss all and are more terrible, atrocious and tainly.: If by any chance yon feel kinds of indictments against Lee. bloody than tho most vivid imagination a sinking between meals I don't otinued her exertions to obtain further After Lee made the confession the can conjure. A novel notion as a "sweet idea." " "Yes, bject to a to a ir formation of the lost exploring yes!" prosecution found it did not implicate conclusion he writes as follows; In has "Wineglassful of cold water, yoa person by the name of Haden the high church authorities, but only and aid to the cause of Arctic A few party, days after the massacre I was know!" in the Iron milsuggested the use of wicker work in- those of brief authority instructed by Major Isaac C. Hairht, last And the act public discovery. district, so they refused the state- next in command itary to W. II. Dame, in and mess and herbs, ment, stead of wood, beliering, Mr. Bishop presumes, Iron of her life was to assist in the fitting to a report district, military A "IT! TTTTl for ornaments instead of nail heads that they could, by trying Lee, procure of what had been done carry President to out of the Pandora, particulars of the nearer the apostolic testimony reaohing and silver gimp. The Duchess of centre, and so Brigham Young, at Salt Lake. Haight disregarded their agree- directed mo to departure of which for the Polar re- give my report and stand Sutherland has patronized the new ments and plaoed Lee on trial. Lee's Veen with have in the up manly courage, and shoulder as already gious as follows: given coffin and brought it out. And there statement opens much of as possible, he say blame the GENERAL AGENT IN It now beoemes my painful though Junction. to me I did so I should re that if ing coffin to been matinee Staf has the at a ' lmperatire duty chronicle the circum ceive a celestial reward. It is i Ogden was once honored by a visit my na stances that led to and fully describe ture never ford resi Duke's the to on bind burdens House, elegant others, Utah, Idaho, Montana and from Lady Franklin, and those who that unfortunate affair known as the that I am Nevada for set to bear willing myself. I called on her at the Ogden House will dence in London, which was attend Mountain Meadow Massacre, in Utah went to Salt Lake and reported to ed by the elite of society. And the history, which has been shrouded in Brigham Young the exact facts connect join with us in kindly remembrance mystery for the last fifteen years, caus- ed with the PETER SCHUTTLER'S fe ing much comment, excitement and transaction, shouldering a of tho aged and amiable lady, whose butterflies of fashion, male and share of the responsibility than feeling throughout the land greater life was devoted to the memory of male, flitted and flattered around The entire Mama has retted upon the justly belonged to me. CELEBRATED In justice l Brigham Young I must each basket for the dead, and though Mormon people in Utah. Now, in her husband, and her means to the jus that when ho heard my story he was "nothing in it," the new ties to humanity I feel it my duty to Say like a there wept cause which took his life as a aacri child, walked tho floor and show up the facta as they exist accord his in bitter anguish and hands coffins took immemely, and in wrung thing fiea. lag to the best ef my ability, though I nam was mesi it ine unfortunate aflair, so in the entertainment was a grand success implicate myself doing. I hare Lady Franklin has now passed no rindictire feelings whaterer against tho most unwarranted event that had ever happened to the Mormon people. And now the claims of each vari any man or claa of iadiriduala. What ho said through the vail which separated her this transaction will bring sor ia of I done from a de fashionable are discussed at seise dutr tAm. from her noble companion, and, let ety AND MOTVEBS, to my God and to tho peopfe at row and trouble upon us in Utah, i REAPERS elf, and white osier or colored, wish to God had nerer it gatherings, happened. us hope, is now enjoying his society, large, so that the truth may cone to After hearing this I returned home double or single baskets, lichens light and the blame rest where it prop with a drooping heart and reported the where storms and shipwreck and SWEEPSTAKES TEBESHERS oolongs, mosses or ferns for ornaments, and erly result of mission to those in author my I hare been arrested on the charge of partings and pain are known bo more, whether the spaces between double being engaged In the crime committed at ity orer me. Lee says that seventeen children were sated and were all de- Furst Jt except as trials that have passed baskets Bradley Hay Rakes shall be ffllcd with cWooal tho time and place referred to, I hare livered to Dr. Forney, who ; proaised to been in dose confinement over eight H away for ever. or foliage, make ample food for ele months since my arrest. I was in irons iaae t&em to their mends in Missouri ctJO. three monthe of tho time during my con- and Nebraska. None of them were killgant conversation and refined dispute finement.'' For tho last seventeen ed after tho massacre. Ho sets out that ; We should think the basket THAT'S SO. the massacre was tho result of military coffin in faot, sin oe the commission ofyears, tho Utah then being under martial I hare given this subject much orders, decorations crime. ' The following, clipped from the with its green-leaveunder command of Brigham Young law, A Full Stock of and reflection. hare made I the thought as governor, Johnstone's army being on would bo come all the rage if intro effort to confinement bear with of Journal my is Commerce, ap Chicago and well knowing tho east in Echo canon, and an invasion to the New York introduced on this side of the sea, that most of resignation, plied particularly those engaged in this un- being expected from the west by way of where the dead are exhibited to the fortunate affair wore led on the Mormon people were in by religious California, Tribune, but is of such general a of state and noted as desexcitement, public gaze like a show, and old and iafluenees, commonly called fanaticism, dictated. application that we insert it without peration and AND but derotion to their God, young seem to think it a fascinating nd nothing Attorney Bishop alleges that Leo ofas taught to them their to . comment: . Him, duty sight to gaze upon a corpse. Let us by their religion and their church lead- fered to giro tho prosecution the names nave tne new coma by all means. of tho murderers and WAGON MATERIAL, "Apostates always become the ers, would erer hare induced them to of twenty-fivcould be found, as ho bewhere they committed hare untho and outrageous bitterest, the most unscrupulous and natural aots, beliering that all who par- lieved. most the Iron, Steel, and malignant enemies of truth. ticipated in the lamentable transaction, YOUNG DIIIGHA5I AND or most of them, were acting under The greater the fall th more intense Indian Outrage. MOUNTAIN MEADOW. orders that they considered it their duty tho hatred. The higher the Angel their religious duty to obey. I hare "There will be universal laments- - suffered all kinds of Oonis, July 20th, 1875. the lower the Devil. The most rathT001S Editob Jvkctiox: inn DaittilA.it er na IP than .kail these tm tho tmnni men, expose knowing foes that the immortalized turn out that John D. Lee, who is circumstances as I do, and belierinz ia 'Indian Jack," as as calls himself, of Nazareth has of now on the ainoerity of their motires, aj I $!an said to be the ringleader in . that in- Skull Valley, is camped on tho hill near done; but I hare a duty to Always on hand. thii earth once professed to nuuun butchery of ' innocent men; always hare perform, and hare, since I was arrested, by, and has been beating his squaw and bo his most zealous friends. Like women and children, fails to incul become eonrinced that it waa not tho raising h I generally, oil day yesterday their prototype they "abode not in pate ling bam ipung, in either policy of the gorernment or the wish, of and last night. He came into my house tho court to punish these men, but in tho truth." He said my "yoke is knowledge of, or responsibility for rather to offices: protect them and let tho blame about 10 o'clock yesterday, "all afloat." those cruel murders." Omaha Her on rest their leaders, where it justly and turned my wife and children out of easy and my burden is light;" but ald. lawfully belongs. doors, and had I not been at home, they could not remain his disciples Salt Lake City & Corinne, and After much I meditation 'em Let lament. has thought Lee not might have done some mischief. Now, only hare oomo and indulge their appetites and f to this conclusion that I could where is the man who sold him iht and therefore in their licenti- failed to d what was wanted, but no loafer remain silent on this subject. bottle of whisky? or thm m TJTA.II. ous hearts they said, ('His yoke is his confession exculpates the man but so far as I can bring to tho light the bought it for him? My wire and children could not sleep heavy, and His prohibitions unreason-able.- whom they desired him to criminate. ciroumstanoes connected therewith and remoro the cloud of mystery that has so all last night, for fear the Indians would and ilaviug gained position Of course his statement will not be long obscured tho transaction and come down off the hill. I lim off iufluence, by their association with accepted as satisfactory. to agitato tho public mind, be- to one side, and consequently cannot the good and the true, they now uso liering it to bo my duty as a mam a teare noma to auena to business while their elevation and their power to deduty to myself, to my family, to my God, they are around. The police have been Agent lor, tho ahovo ia fame and to strike down the men A smart Kansas woman was roach and humanity to cast asiie tho shackles notified, but perhaps it takes a.11 thi who bold on to the truth and refuse on her dog. She washed s,ame halt so oog holding my conscience ia silence, time to guard the saloons. and fa ptrsuacco cf tho disinterested espeotfully yours, . to .oflow them io thoir. Tagari8s." OQDKK akd LOO AN. for plastering and k shaved bin. djriao of py attornejs ( mw submit the Gao. VT. Rrisiu. She IN HOPE. gwrtfon. THE BE AVE II THIAL. facts so tee's . sSS Lt 0(Jli:. L Jfi?S " t Fit . - S m bol-heade- A d T Tin-dicati- . . BUCKEYE PlsQWO d for-titu- do Wagon Woods, , e umwm - pas-siou- s; 1' M. J). |