| Show THE TESTIMONY or OF dira MR ALVIRA 1 L being sworn say that a few days before my husband and son vere ere murdered Wil wilberd berJ J earl and abram I 1 mcdonald cDonald SI came to my house about dusk ilithe in the evening and took my baudout hus husband out imy son followed ind and mcdonald drove him aback tack then I 1 went vert out arid and ere crossed saed the street into my nephews nep bevIs house and stood at site the open ojen oj en window the house being an anfin abed one and heard Al mcdonald cDonald tell my hus land hand that ile he could leversee ne aci nci versee er see his grey horses any more my aly husband replied that if lie he would let him gro go to brigham young he bring papers to show shiow that the horses belonged to him and no do one else mcdonald said aid v we e dont care for Bilg biggham liam young and isyou if you start to see him yoa oi will mil never 1 ve to get att there my aly husband then opened ills his bo I 1 i torn som ard and told them if they wanted waited to kill lim liim to do it now dow mcdonald Me Donald said ft e dont i want kant to hed blood now 0 1 tile following after I 1 heird heard this conversation mr ir parri 8 li c started w with till abraham daf U from our house about two i and in ill thoe ning mr jh durfee came back arid and took my two i ws ton out soon after th they ey left tile the house I 1 headd a pun gun fire tins this was a little after I 1 dark daa and shot shrilly lly after that the police came i arid ani sp arched my house e fur for orrin and told me that they wanted his hia body dead or alive I 1 told them he ads riot not there but carnes tile the of the police told them to bearz search tile the and they search fj 1 it I 1 remained in t tin te bicusa all light much alarmed and very lonesome I 1 went w aut to the door occasionally arld anil saw some vien men fixing fi a w wagon 0 o n and past an fn afre cardies candies in their air hand I 1 i front from john bailys bails house to the wagon I 1 eisaw saw i the hexagon vv agon move oil off in the direction that my 1 son it proved to be the wagon that brought in the dead bodies 0 mckenzie Mt Kenzie told UK me bathe was vi as cordei 01 dei ed by b the bishop to drive the wagon out but did riot not know at the time what he was going alter after that when bea they arrived at the place they threw the dea dead ladies bodies of my bus husband band my son arid and sir mr potter into the wagon 11 agon lile like lead dead hogs bogs and said this illis is the way the damned apostates ga go tie next morning after this my brother law hn lyra came to my ui house boitse and it me that orrin was at his house guarded policemen he tod me to come over lint to be as ca calm in as pos possible i ble I 1 u nent ent over ind and found orrin there in bed guarded by four ten men I 1 knew noue none of the men but william johnson Jo linson I 1 toward the bed to ask my eon bodif if he be knew where here his rather father was but mr johnson jerked me a aay way and said if H I 1 wanted to talk I 1 must talk loud I 1 then asked him loud if lie he knew where his rather father was ile he said lie he had not seen him soon after that tha I 1 in ray y son albert came and told me tila thi lis Is 1 ather and ills his brother and mr pot ter tr were all dead deadie it the schoolhouse soon litter after that they ca came me arid ard took orrin over to tile the school ilou house ae I 1 followed rd but was so prostrated by the circumstances that I 1 was rot lot able afo to go alone but w as assisted by my nephew brother in law lavi IV hen I 1 got to the school house I 1 heard them ask orrin it if te be had been to the murder ile he stated on oath that lie he had riot not and that he rid not know amio did it arnn was at this tune time very much embarrassed ile he was discharged ged after they found that he knew noth 11 S after the burial I 1 was tt as required to pay WW for funeral expenses before I 1 could get etl back my husbands watch all and other allies he had with him on a second visit to house I 1 noticed that a knife had heen wen drawn through my husbands left hand the he fore finger hung by the skin his bis hand band and binl left aricere arm mere all cut up with a knife a large age gash in the back of his head one of its a suspenders was cut og off the knife pierced his body then a nother another wo ind lower down and more bore in in front there was forty eight holes in his ia coat all caused by stabs examined and counted them myself mr arrish ls throat aa cut H om ear to car his watch w atch bad h ad saved sai ed him m one stab there was the mark of a knife onit 0 it there was four bullet holes in the left side of my son eon my husband had bad a lial al order in in his big pocket book when he left home one cal called ledfor for 1 I ne rever got it back when I 1 1 got bahig pocketbook pocket book boo it had a few jewel jewels it in belonging elongino elo nging to my sons a half dollar five faie cent piece the paper containing the he c conversi tinn between my husband I 1 and earl arl and mcdonald wasinik wa was in it buti but it t was not returned tina this spring when bishop johnson ot of Spring springville ville went vent to the legislature I 1 asked him nm why by the horses had bad not been returned told fold 1 him in about ten yai aida ds of 0 linen which had been ean stolen mr carnes had taken the linen and restored only a few yards the rest was missing the linen was nineteen and a half yards to make one shroud not more than han seven yards would have been raqu rau required ired only three and a hilf half yards were returned Ask asked edthe the bishop about the territorial order lie ie said eaid he had it probably among among his pa pers ers and would give it to rae me he it he could V ind it ile he never gave it tome mr dibble who was on the coroners in inquest said that when hen he examined the pocket book on the inquest lie he saw no papers of an any ki id d twi I 1 went n t to salt lake city in in july 1857 to see brigham young in I 1 n accordance wilha till zt promise I 1 had made made mi my husband Brig haill told old me he knew nothing of the affair S springville spring r ing ville was nas fifteen deais eais ahead of him we he would have stopped ishad lie keown any an lung filing about it I 1 asked him about the horses lie he said lie he m would do every thing ile he could do to lae have the horses restored to me lie ie would w write rite to me after aft r seeing ml ali bulock and others told him gee had possession of the horses and that lie bad said nothing but a an order from brinham brigham could get them bri bighams hams bleik put down in a book w what hat I 1 said brigham never neier wrote to tome me I 1 went ent to 0 o see him atlin winter mitter lie he see vie me it it was between christmas and ne bew see bee him I 1 went to brigham w youngs office about 8 in lit the morning and sat there till 4 in the atter after i un ills his clerks clerics were present at I 1 I 1 w vas as told that I 1 see bee brigham young that hat lay day but next day to call and see him bets een 8 and 11 in the morning I 1 came next morning and was told I 1 see him that he saw nobody mr chief of the police in in silt salt L lake a city when I 1 was wa 19 going collim out called me back arid and asked me inc 1111 what a t i would do about it I 1 told him 1 know I 1 went to john youngs from there to mr air longis long and noticed mr air sharp and one of the clerks following me they called after me they said I 1 should w wait sit till the soldiers had left and I 1 would get back my horses and fourfold with ith the them in it would be best for me to deop it they told me to go to bishop bishop hunter and try to settle the matter I 1 w would not go tile the first day I 1 was in in Brig bighams brighams hams office I 1 was told by the clerk brigham young dont want to see anybody such business should be put into the hands of the bishops to see bishop Ilan II ancock cocks bishop johnson Johi iBon arid and bishop Ro eberry and they would settle it the jerk said brigham had bad told hun to tell me he did not want vi ant to see me there had been public preaching at ville to the effect that no do apostates would be allowed to leave leare if they did hogh bog holes olea would be stopped up with them 1 I heard these sermons myself elder hyde and president snow and others preached that ady w my hubband was no believer in ill the of killing to save sae as taught by th teachers |
