| Show COMM communicated UNI U NI fur fr th iku valley TM tan the of hie Parri and potter qt at on iti eglit glit maichi alarca 14 1857 by test testimony taken on a preliminary tia w ni nation in in the case pending wherein in alex F mcdonald McDon ild 11 II 11 II carnes john daley abraham durfee jos bartholomew and kimball bullock are defendants it appears that about the 1st ast day of a an private ate council meeting was vi as held at bishop albishop john sons house in in Spring springville ville both nothing ng is I 1 elicited as to vi what bat took pla place ce anth in this is first meeting except that the object was as tol to 1 talk lalk about apostates and the disposition deposition to ie be made of them about a week eek after this another meeting is is held at the same place at which time duff potter and abraham durfee tte are selected for the purpose of attending inato to the Parris hes randsome and some per person residing res residing idin at the indian farm the rhe evidence does not disclose the names of all the persons there the witness however recollects the following named persons as participating in in boak both of those thoe meetings aaron johnson the j bishop of Spring springville ville lorenzo johnson his brother A F mcdonald mayor of i the city of springville Spring ulle ville andrew wiles lV Villi illiam arn bird lorin lonn roundy round simmons curtis dut duff potter abraham duffee Dur flee and joseph bartholomew other meetings are said to have hai e been held but noth nothing irIg definite in in regard to them has appeared in in the testimony daring the week following the last meeting marrih was as robbed of four horses and a carriage the family after the ahe burder of the Parris hes recovered two of the horses anil and the carriage tiey they were found in in the stable of kimball bullock Bull ocL present apayor ma or of provo pro 0 lysander gee of valley still holds possession of the other two to horses said aid to be woith onh about 4 or dollars early in in the week before the murder villiam johnson a mr Alet metcalf calf and a person whose hose name is is not recollected came to the house of mr parrish profess ro sm to be reli religious bious teachers and cues stion him in in regard to his bis faith ilis answer bothem to them seems riot not to have been satisfactory A short time after this alexander mcdonald and wilber ilber 1 larl ear come to the house of mr aar parrish about dusk in in the evening evening and take him out to talk with him R he is is taken across the street behind an unfinished house hoase belon belonging gring to a nephew of potters owen often parrish a lad of IS 18 years ears starts to follow but is is ordered back by mcdonald alvira parrish Pir rish the wife of mr V win m U R parrish parn h passes over into tto house and from an open window hears a conversation con ersa tiou which she states slates as follows allows mcdonald told my husband that he bould never see his grey horses any more that he had bad stolen them from a widow badow woman my husband said aid that if he e could go to Brig bangham fiam youngs he be could get papers to show that the horses were his own and that he had honestly obtained them diem Al mcdonald cDonald or earl replied if you ru start to go to see brigham you will never neer get there my husband opened his bosom and said you ou can kill me now if you choose mcdonald replied we dont wish to shed blood blond abow now mrs parrish rau ran back home when wl en she saw them about to part her husband came in in a minute minute or two after when mrs parrish said you have your or ders ers her husband asked how bow she new anything about it when she told him lira and told him what was said her husband lueband then said you will be a livid living witness when I 1 am gone abraham durfee is is at this time timework working in for air Mr parrish durfee and potter pretend to parrish that they are dissat saied isfried with the condition of affairs here and impress him with ith the belief that they fley are desirous of getting to california state that threats have been made against them on account of their not living up to the faith aud and that their lives are in in danger arrangements are made that durfee potter parrish and his two sons shall leave eave on oil sunday night the of march durfee and potter are at Parris hes at 10 on the morning of that day parri parrish sh asked them whether they were true to their trust durfee replies yes mother brother william I 1 am as true as a hare aut when it comes to the test dont know enow how low I 1 shall do potter 1 tool took 1 a gun to pieces which belonged to mr parrish so that it could be carried out without being observed durfee in in conversation said that when they were leaving they ought to go out one at a time t to avoid suspicion parrish the father and durfee left about 2 in the desvio da day durfee returned again about dusk to get a gun belonging to owen owea parrish went away aay with the gun afterwards returned and said d that he hd h d come from where parrish was w as upon being interrogated by mrs parrish he said that he was outside of the fort and would stay there I 1 for safety and that he had bad told him to tell her to send the boys bo s out whether they were ready or not durfee and the two Parri bli boys then leave the boys barring car ring bundles of provisions and ammunition durfee parts pans with wilh the he boys near the S south uth gate of the city and directs them 1 to the south west corner oi of the city wall durfee comes to them there asks the elder eider parrish boy to go with him to find some things that he had hid out in in a field they go and return in about 10 minutes to the other boy owen oven durfee saying that he be could not dot find his things while they are gone owen hears the repot t of a gun in a southeast south east direction and apparently where they are to meet at the corner of the fence owen asks what is meant durfee allays cusp suspicion by saying some indians we were re camped down there and also saying that it might perhaps be a signal from old man parrish or potter durfee and the boys start in the direction of the corner of the land fence where ishad it had been arranged they all should meet after dark after they had crossed the fence from the field into the road and got near the place durfee calls out Duff DulT Duff Daff potters name and stops and looks towards the fence on the east side of the road afterwards all proceed on and when within fifteen or twenty feet of the corner of the fence where ill all are to meet some one called out durfee three times durfee answers and immediately a gun or pistol is fired wm will B parrish the eldest son who is the farthest from durfee falls dead both of the sons are unarmed several shots are fired one ball taking effect in a cartridge box that owen parrish had on dur fee drew up his bis gun pointed it at owen and a cap but the gun un fail failed ed to go off owen immediately immediately immediate lT jumped over the fence into the fiel fields s and made his ea e cape into the city clim climbing biDo the city wall where it was low while going through the streets he be heard some person behind him say he went this thi way sway ile He ran to his uncles house bouse 10 or 12 men standing in in front of it but passed them and into the I 1 house so quick that they could not stop him told his uncle that beason being his bro brother therWin Wm s middle name had been shot and wanted him to go 0 o and see if he was alive alie he was afraid to go but got man by the name of brooks to go up on n the following day the widow of parish rish ed to so izo and see the bodies of her ler husband and son and orrin is is taken to the school house at the same sometime time durfee dair ee is is found there john AT stewart the justice who iho was at the preliminary secret councils before mentioned in in which the fate of the parishes Parri hes was decided is is there pretending to hold bold an inquest in upon the bodies the jury composing the inquest are durfee is is sworn states very little but says that he poi pointed n te d his bis gun at the enemy orrin parrish is also sworn who testifies that he be cannot give agne a statement in in the matter and is is very much frightened orrin now says that his uncle told him so to state that if he identified any of the persons and they learned who he knew that hat was engaged ia in it he would be put out of the way of course the verdict of the corners inquest is is that they were nvere murdered by persons dersons unknown in the morning morning of that day mrs birs parrish hearing that orrin was w as at his uncles went over to see se him and found him urn in in bed she he attempted to speak to to him but was jerked away by william johnson he said she should not speak to him unless she spoke in in a loud voice voice she then spoke out and wanted to know where his father was orrin said that ile ie did not know seeing some persons about the school house she sent her chii thud d son albert to the school house he be came back and said that his father beason and potter were laying in in there here deal dead on the same sunday that the murder is committed after church services services in in the city of provo pro 0 president snow of the pro provo 0 stake desired to know if there was w as any one there who would w carry a letter which he held in in his hand to bishop johnson of Spring springville ville and place it in his hands stepped up and said he would take it snow charged him specially to deliver it safely to bash bishop johnson himself saying at the same time dead men tell no tales the preaching that morning had bad been in in regard td apos apostates tates and the proper disposition of them the body of old man parrish was literally cut to pieces his hia throat was cut on the left side his fingers and arms his back in in fact his zole whole boda was covered with knife wounds of which ich he had bad received as is is testified at least last fifteen there were no wounds of eibl 01 or rule rifle balls on his body potter was killed hilled by three balls probably from a shot gun which entered the body on the left breast a little below the nipple wm beason parrish was shot through by four balls which entering passed through his loft left arm and side and came out at about the centre of his back sirs mrs parrish says tint that george mckensie told her that bishop johnson ordered him to drive the wagon out but that he be did not know at the time what ho he was going out for Arc mckensie Kensie said I 1 the bodies were thrown into the wagon like dead ho hos hogs s some one remarking T this i j s the way the d d apostates go mckensie 1 l kens ie has since since left for california mis airs parrish further testifies that her husband had a territorial order in a his pocket book when he left home that thai day which has never been returned that she went to salt lale lake city in in the mon month th of july following the murder of her husband to see Brigl bangham iain young brigham said the people in in were fifteen years a head ahead of him if he be had known about the matter he would have stopped it it said he be u would try to get the horses she told him that gee had possession of the horses and that he said nothing but an order from brig ham would w get affet them Brig bighams brighams hams clerk put all that was said down in in a book brigham said he would write to her but never did she went to see brigham again between last christmas day and new years went into into his office about 8 in in the morning and sat there till 4 in in the afternoon his clerks were present at 4 t they hey told her she could not see brigham t that hat day but to call the next between 8 and an cl 11 in in the morning she went there the next mor morning in a bout about 8 and was then told nhe aio could not see him about the time she was leaving in mr john sharp captain of police in in salt lake city called her back and asked her what she was going to do about her matters she told him she did not know from there she w vent ent to john youns youngs and thence to mr longs she noticed sharp and one of brigham bangham youngs clerks following fol lowin her ane one of them finally called her and sharp said to her that if she wanted to tn get her horses back she had better not go into court but wait until the soldiers were gone and then she would get them with fourfold and that it would be best for her to drop it while in in Brim bighams hams office the clerk told her that bangham B bigham did not want to see her that she he should put aut the matter into the hards bands of the bishops that bishop johnson bishop hancock ancock II and bishop Ro goberry row berry would settle it for her several witnesses testify that about the time of the murder of tho the Par rishe hes it was a very ery common thing thin 9 to heir hear bishops and elders speak peake in their meet ings about what was to be the fate of apostates that as brigham young says sa s judgment was to be laid to the line and righteousness to the plummet which in in plainer terms meant that apostates acosta cs were to have haie their throats cut to save saie them orson hyde a short time before the murder of the parishes Parris hes bes in in a discourse delivered at Spring springville ville said that a apostates x would not be allowed to toleah leave leae pon a and tf if they attempted it hog hogl holes ioles w would be stopped up with them elder snow also made a similar remark at the same place |
