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Show IK DAYS" IN ZION! i Details of the Cold-Blooded! Murder of Dr. J. King Rohinson. NO ATTKMPT MADE TO j PUNISH THE ASSASSIN This Was Because Victim Was a Gentilo, Disliked by j Priesthood. ! i In the fGood old days in Zion," when the priesthood held full sway, when every member of the police force, every city and county official was a member of the Mormon church, there occurred a most cowardly and cold blooded assassination as-sassination of a prominent citizen of I gait Lake. This was tho slaughter of Dr. . I. King Robinson. When news of the assassination-reached assassination-reached tho chief of police of Salt Lake City, as it did at midnight the night of the murder, that official went to bod and waited three days before he visited tho scene of tho murder. This cold blooded and cowardty murder was committed for tho purpose I of striking terror into tho Gentiles and preventing them from settling in Utah. At that time thero were 500 special police in Salt Lake, and no effort was made io apprehend the assassins, although al-though tho ccclcsiasts made a bluff of offering a reward of $1000 for the arrest ar-rest and conviction of the murdcrorfl. This was signed by D. H. Wells, mayor of Great Salt Lake City, and the date was October 22. 3S06, just forty-four years ago on Saturday. Why the bluff was made was because the doctor was slain by men who wore tho badge of police officers, xhia was in ''the good old days in Zion,-'' when the Danitc was abroad. Dr. Robinson was a native of the slate of Maine. Ho camo to Salt Lako as assistant surgeon at Port Douglas. When he was murdered he was practicing practic-ing his profession as' a physician, having hav-ing been mustered out of the service. Dr. "Robinson had entered claim to the Warm Springs, in the northern part of tho city. In fact, ho hoinestcaded it. The cit' claimed the property. The doctor becamo involved in a suit with the city. In tho final roundup in the courts the case wa decided in favor of Lho,city by Chief Justice Titus in the territorial court. This was on October 19, 1S66. Three days later tho doctor was slaughtered. Details of Crime. Dr. Robinson lived near tho corner of Third South, and lain streets, whero the Mercantile block now. stands. About midnight of October 22, 1866, he was called fromj his home to visit a man named Jolcs, who had his leg broken by falling from a mule. " Tho doctor resp'onded. and accompanying accom-panying the person who had summoned him, walked a. short distance south of west from his home into a deep shaded placo there, and there he was slaughtered. slaught-ered. Seven men wcro interested in tho cruel and cowardly inurder. The moon was at its full. It was light as day. A number of persons saw the assassins run away, but no one could identify them. The reason was apparent. ap-parent. ' This, mark you. was in the "good old daj's in Zn," "when the law, according ac-cording to the stories told, w.as observed. ob-served. Dr. Robinson had the temerity to fight in the courts for what he believed i . was his rights. He tested the validity of tho city charter in tho courts, and was defeated. Then, to strike- terror to other G on tiles who might manifest a desire to do likewise, ho was slain. The reward of $1000 was never paid. Tt was'never intended that it should be. It was only a Gentilo that was murdered, mur-dered, but this was in "the good old days in Zion.7' Tho governor 'of tho tcrritoo- of Utah was not called upon to aid the authorities in running down the murderers. Ho wns not asked by ccclcsiasts to write tho chief of police, the board of commissioners or the mayor of Salt Lako City. Why? Because he was a Gentile and an ofiicer of the United States. But the police never found the slayer of Dr. Robinson. Thoy never wanted to find him. Why? They knew who he was or who the slayers were. Thoy belonged to tho police force of Salt Lake. But this was in "the good old days in Zipn.'J |