Show NAY His Wife Denies his Complicity in the Deep Greet Robbery And Gives an Account of his Recent Re-cent History DESERET CITY UT AIIFeb17 83 Editors Herald Will you please insert the following follow-ing in your valuable paper and oblige I became acquainted with Ormus B Nay of Pine Valley Utah about the fall of 1870 and was married to said Ormus B Nay December 22d 1871 We lived in Cedar Fort about four years during which time my husband was burning charcoal at Boulder Springs and another spring near 1 was there during the summer sum-mer cooking for him and his brothers broth-ers William and John Nay all of the same place of residence viz Cedar Fort the charcoal being hauled to Bingham Canyon on Lyons contract part of the time We then left Cedar Fort and proceeded pro-ceeded to Harrisburg where we lived for about two years during which time my husband peddled fruit which he purchased in the settlements set-tlements along the Rio Virgin River We then moved to Iron City and resided there about five months my husband peddling fruit to Pioche after which we moved to a place called FlatNose in Nevada about four miles from Dry Valley where we bought a farm partly fenced My husband during the winter and spring in connection with my brother was erecting more fence and building a reservoir to hold water from the spring on the farm to irrigate with but the water dried up and became scarce the summer being excessively hot and dry and compelled us to accept work building a fence about five miles above Desert Springs then owned by Ben Tasker where we lived about six weeks We did this in Order to get money to take us to Eureka Nevada My husband and brother then commenced burning coal again and furnished the smelters smelt-ers for about one year after which we moved to Fairview in Sanpete County this being in the fall of 1880 and lived there till next spring when we moved to Grass Valley during the summer my hug band and brother cutting pickets for a man whose name I believe was Foreshay In the winter my husband took up a ranch in Grass Valley Canyon where we resided until January 1882 and afterwards moved to Silver Reef My husband hauled wood and constructed a road across the road from Silver Reef to the Grape Vine Spring and then sold the right of way over the road and left there in the folloVing June for Deseret City which place we left on July 2d for Fish Springs where we stayed until the 1st of September My husband and bro ther were putting up hay to feed their stock during this winter We then went to Deep Creek in search of work and my husband was taken sick and after about two weeks we left for Pleasant Valley in Nevada and there my husband went to work in the harvest field for Eugene Henroid and stayed there until the middle of October and came back again to Deseret It was during our stay at Pleasant Valley that we first saw Frank Francis and Frank I Hawley who were parsing through at the time saying they had come from the D R G Railroad about the beginning of October After we came back to Deseret my husband was gathering up hIs horses also other horses belonging to different parties in Deseret to herd lie was then gone just two weeks when he was brought here to Deseret by the sheriff in connection with the others thatwere captured at the stockade about nine miles north of Swazeys Springs I am positively certain that my husband was not with those engaged in the robbery at Deep Creek and knew nothing of it because he was at home in Deseret Of this there are nlenty of persons in Deseret whe can testify The longest period of absence of my husband from me was seven weeks during my married mar-ried life which commenced about two years ago I LOUISA NAT |