Show correspondence IF I 1 he y lull clin BOX ad aldee U T august uth 1839 5 sla SIR chave I 1 have the honor to report that having arrived yesterday 5 within six six miles of this place I 1 went into camp and two hours hail had reliable 11 information formation that a large lare body of indians m ere cre probably encamped soni embere in in the hie lanon kanyon leading from this valley to cache valle valley y I 1 was informed at the same time that m ill fic c or six days past they had stolen a number of animals fijut fi oin tins this and the adjoin adjoining ing settlements and that they wet e tile same party v v ho it had ad murdered ind and robbed an emigrant train on sublette subletts Sub letts cutoff cut off I 1 immediately resolved to attack them at 10 p pm m I 1 broke up camp ca in p and moved quietly to this village here I 1 left my wagons with a guard and proceeded with i ith a command of forty two men taking w with ith me four pack mules wit with 11 four days dais rations ill in order to be prepared if f necessary i ece to pursue them in the mountains by 2 aal a m I 1 had everything prepared for the and having procured a guide w givlio loo professed to know the indian encampment entered the kari lanyon yon after a rapid of wo hours the was indicated by a rin number niber oi of ponies grazing graying and in a moment afterwards by the indians lumping jumping up from their beds under vie te bushes and running up the mountain sides which were here covered with mth undergrowth I 1 immediately formed my men and charged upon tile the mam body of them in in the several of fat tho the enemy were ere killed still and wound wounded d they then scattered and took positions behind rocks ac ac here they were mere charged and driven up precipices beyond the reach of men inen on horses I 1 then dismounted my men and kept up a fire for at least an hour a and lid a lia in I 1 if f v iv 11 inch ich for an hour m was as briskly returned by the enemy but lie gradual bally ceased to fire the precipitous nature of the ground rendering it vit utterly terly impossible to pursue lihn I 1 drove e horses and returned to this place tile the attack commenced just before the dawn and continued until arter after sunrise I 1 am sallied that the encampment was with a view lieu to and for tins this purpose they probably could not have found a more admirable place lit in chev the whole hole ivah satch sach range of mountains rn it is is known as devi deals Is gate kanyon As soon as the indians wei e discovered my mormon guide slid quietly from his horse wid and was seen no more until on my return near this town I 1 overhauled him lie ile was as unable to give any ny satisfactory reason for his desertion I 1 lilie have since learned that ho he came into town during the action and reported that we never would get out of that place the horse lorse lie he rode was one I 1 had furnished him arid and strange to say bay was found with an indian oil ins his lack back the latter was wag shot and the no horse taken it mj iny guide had desired to lead ead tile me into a fatal ambuscade he be could not have bave taken me to a spot letter better adapted for the purpose the guide and many others ahers estimated the indian adian force at florin aiom to warriors the number killed was about twenty as near as we me can calculate I 1 had no men killed but four forr sever severely elv though probably not mortally mo ino itally and two slightly sine nine of my horses were wounded the number of horses taken was twenty neatly nearly half being american horses it is is a source of great satisfaction to me to lo know that one of the horses hores captured proved to be one which tile hie indians had taken fl aiom om the train trail on oil Sub sublette subletts letts cutoff cut off at the hie time lime of the massaccie mass acie of auy Iro probably bably more LeI belonging to the same train would woul d have been captured had not the indian animals stampeded during aurill the betiong action which could not be prevented owing to the small guard which could lie be spaced from the company for the purpose of securing property properly I 1 am much indebted to lieutenant ryan for ins bia services on this occasion vv inch were performed pd Pel formed with a masterly at ai d coolness during the whole action assistant surgeon burgeon J moore receives the heartfelt thanks of myself ni self as well as the soldiers under tinder my fay command tor for his bis immediate and kind attentions to the wounded on the field during the action and his continual personal attendance attai dance since tile the company behaved nobly on una this occasion I 1 have the honor to reter refer tile the general commanding to the list of accod pal pai yi ying ng th the a report it is is ru today to day that bannack indians arrived in cache valley yesterday these alic number of indians already theresi the vall ill make probably SOO A f 1 v large emigration is near a point on bear V hirer tm twenty enty miles from this cache valley I 1 shall wait hero here long enough to c care are for my wounded mounded and recruit my horses wit when ell I 1 shall proceed to bear river in order to prevent present the indians from interfering with emigration very respectfully your obedient servant signed E GAY ad lieutenant company G ad dragoons Coa Comin marding anding major r J PORTER abst aast adit gent dept of utah COMPANY G ad dragoons list of men wounded in in an action with mth indians ni lit devils kanyon near box nider elder U T on the of august 1850 1859 1st ast ser sergeant geant thos J slightly corporal corpora I 1 R F r colduda severely bugler henry severely jacob eggerstedt Eggers teat slightly samuel smith severely seve iely lely michael tierney Ti crne severely sc verel signed E GAY r ad ad dragoons I 1 commande Comman dg compary G box elder 11 T aug at 1359 7 SAN cal Z 11 t july ath 1859 5 TIIE THE VALLEY TAN si S fealing that the matut e of the case makes it justifiable I 1 ask you ou to excuse the freedom which 1 I a perfect stranger take in in address i and in ili asking the liberty of addressing the public through your columns I 1 have seen lately in in your little sheet and in in other papers several articles on the subject of that notable tragedy generally known know n as the parrish murder in which my name is is mentioned in in such a way and in in such connections as to make it likely to leave upon the public mind the impression that I 1 had something to do with M ith that bloody blood affair of that affair I 1 have hav e some little knowledge anch ich if i you will give it a place in your columns I 1 vi will ill faithfully and truly trul according ili to the best of my recollection give to the public I 1 will also on the same conditions give agn e to I 1 lie he public my knowledge of some other matters in in utah well now for my statements at a cerlo dime time during the notable reformation fornia tion 1 I 1 I think in in the winter of 1857 1837 1 I was as one of tile bishops counselors counselor presiding and speaking in in a ward meeting at the house of G G duff potter where a brother counselor N T guymon came to the door and said 11 brother rother 13 bt ewait t please TO cut your remarks short the bishop w ashes to see you 2 I 1 did so arid and went with him to the bishops council room an upper room in in his dwelling house As this was in in the night our movements moie ments were perhaps ved by but very few the I 1 he bishop johnson guymon and myself and some few f w others whom v hom I 1 cannot now identify composed this tl is council atler after all alad assembled anil and were orderly seated the bishop stated the object of the ine meeting eting which u was as that we might hear a letter which lie hall had just received flora president young ile he there read the letter the purport tit which was about this ile he brigham had information that some suspicious characters v were ere collecting at the indian farm on spanish rot folk k and he wished lim him bishop johnson to keep a good look out in that direction to send some one there to reconnoiter and ac ascertain e ertain m what bat was going on and it if they those suspicious characters should make a breal break i and be pursued which here hereu ired he would ile be sorry to tear lear a favor favorable ablo rep report rt abuy but said lie he the better way is is to lock the stable door before file horse is la stolen ile he th then en admonished the bishop that lie he tile the bishop understood those things and would act accordingly and leep keep this letter close 12 or safe this ibis letter m was as over brio bams signature in in lia his own peculiarly rough hands which we all had the privilege of seeing about this matter there was no counseling the word of brigham m was as the law and the object was as that we might hearit karly early one mori inep during the week succeeding this taij council parrish slid and durfee called at alliy my house office of lice for I 1 was the ca magistrate when parrish Parr under oath said his bis horses borses were stolen the di night lt before from his stable and required a warrant I 1 giving authority to search for them I 1 could find no law in in utah making it the duty or tile privilege of a justice or any other officer to grant a escaich warrant yet I 1 cor considered I 1 that there could be no harm in a it and therefore granted it directing it to 6 ahi sheriff his dap de pity ity or any constable constad I 1 of bbb co anty re requiring aring lim liin to bear search il diligently i utah county bounly tor for such much ro Lily parash wished me to deputize dep utise durfee to search but I 1 refused it was at this tinie time that duffee e lined aimed as I 1 afterwards understood it to give me a hint of his situation in private lie he I 1 said you know how I 1 stand I 1 replied ayes Ys supposing sup g that lie he alluded to basl his apostasy apo stacy winch which he be had bad made as public as lie he dare bell he replied alls right in israel I 1 did not understand him I 1 tile ahe next saturday night there was a council aich I 1 attended by special tion in una this council were as well as I 1 remember bishop A johnson J al Stew Sl ewart artl A P JM Al cDonald N T gumiran Guy iran L johnson C lanford Lan tord ard and W J earl I 1 am pretty certain there m were ere others present but bat I 1 cannot now flow name them 0 yes cs potter and durfee were present they lame came in in with blankets wrapped abou arou around 11 d them in this catin council cil there was a good deal of 0 secret talking done by two or three individuals getting close together and talking in suppressed tones which chich 1 I being dull of I 1 hearing did not understand I 1 did rot try to understand but some things I 1 could not help understanding I 1 understood when potter requested ot of the bishop the privilege to kill parrish wherever lie he could find tile the damned curse and the bishops reply shed no blood in during daring this council to the best of oe my re collection ol lection I 1 scarcely arcely s spoke a word I 1 understood der stood that blood would probably be shed I 1 not in t spring ville but out of it I 1 did in my heart disapprove of the course but I 1 was in the current and could not get et out and policy said to me illoyd hold your tongue for the 11 this was saturday night flight and as well ct as I 1 remember 1 I heard no moie of the affair till tile the next sunday night one week that is is eight days which made it sunday night I 1 k knew new no nothing lh in g of the plan nor of the deeds having been beef done until near midnight I 1 lit when hen I 1 was awakened and requested reu re ested to go and hold bold an inquest over some dead bodies i W J earl one of 0 the city aldermen and my predecessor in the magisterial office made tins this requirement of me and undertook to dictate me in in the selecting of a jury I 1 considered cosi co dered my position for a moment and concluded to suffer myself to be dictated top to unless an attempt should be made to ledd lead me to the commission of crime in billdt ca case lse I 1 felt that I 1 would try mighty hard to back out I 1 obeyed my manager W J earl in selecting the jury ury aiding suni summoned alone I 1 a part of the number gumbir requisite for a ju jur r y yami being told by earl that the jury could be filled out after we got there we proceeded along the main main road south about one mile from froin the public liquari li square quare to the corner of a field known as childs corner here laid tile the bodies of win R parrish and G 0 potter duff daff potter they had evidently been lulled killed in the road and dragged to the place they then occur led not to be tedious I 1 pro ceedee to fill up and qualify the jury the examination took place under try ny own observation it was ivas a protracted one a minute record being kept by A F mcdonald McDo foreman before we got through with young parrish Par rith beason so called was discovered dead at a distance f from rom the other bodies of about 15 rods rodi in a southeast south east direction the verdict was that they came to their deaths by the hands of gf an assassin or assassins sas sins to the jury unknown ahr bodies were hauled to the school house aliouse by george mckenzie McKen yie who by some blodys direction diec tion as I 1 suppose was as on the ground with his team and wagon the bodies were guarded through the night by the police the next morning morning the bishop sea sent t word to me to bury the bodies which I 1 did and made out the bill according to the charges of the men employed I 1 was told to take charge of the goods chattels arid and I 1 clothes of the murdered men I 1 which I 1 did and in due time delivered every ever article to their families except a butcher knife claim by mrs parrish which I 1 did not suppose belonged to her and v chich aich I 1 would not give to her professing ignorance of its whereabouts till I 1 could get directions from the bishop she never got th the e knife it was bently lost in in my family the law of the territory made it my duty to make returns of or my proceedings in this case to the county court but the bishop told me not to do it and I 1 obeyed him some consider considerable able time I 1 dont know how long after the murder I 1 spoke to bishop johnson concerning the above named knife I 1 supposed from the fact that when the knife came into my possession it was all over bloody that it had been used by the assassin but the bi blihor shop thought dixe differently arenfly durl dun g our chat about tile the knife and the murder the di bishop shop asked do dc you ou know who done that hat job I 1 replied no ile ho then asked have boll ou any ay iy idea IN no 0 cant yuu guess afi 1 I guess I 1 could cold I 1 I 1 OC lie ile then said wl well I 1 guess 11 1 I guess gness will william iann bird 11 fl 0 ire he replied you are pretty good at L ing V I 1 I 1 know nothing which N att me rat al lit bell have caused mp me to suspect win L ieiri isiri r 1 ot 0 as much as some others hut but there ot fcc fice internal i prompting right at tile the ino inoma binom mt 1 1 IA still n I 1 spoke accordingly y it I 1 suppose I 1 had as well say 50 carl bout about the notorious court coart it in nii aih i 5 fee and 0 parrish were trip for the v cl der of potter and the Parris hes ii af ya 11 11 II kearns captain of the rl io 1 state tei I 1 came to me on muda the nt next day L last 1 is aft C the murder and told rne me that I 1 1 bistre must he k court sometime that afternoon rOon and e axa ith t durfee and young part ish in regard t me filial lle abal murder lie he had them as prisoners on ti e count I 1 understood that it was olly 1 a H kalal 9 done as a show or kind of a put off ff batio I 1 ordered the prisoners before me ani aia 1 I 1 I 1 was directed shoie them to 0 o te ll 11 n the rd 5 truth ac in the case then urle ai adert coll coga Bide 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