| Show TESTIMONY OF ORRIN ORBIN E PAR orrin E parish being sworn says lie e was 20 years old last july lived with his fathers fath rs family in springville Spring ville in I 1 n march 1857 1837 family consisted of father mother aud and six children eldest brother william beason aged 22 21 witness next lived in jas house double house we lived in one end in the other we came here heie from council bluffs rather father brother and potter were murdered on the evenin evening of tile the march 1857 1837 about a week before before the duider wm win john conj soil mr metcalf and a person whose name witness does not le ie collect came to fathers as teachers and questioned father about his religion whether he prayed and what lie he intended to do dont recollect all that was said but they seem pleased with fathers answers abight A or two after our four horses and c carnage arriage were stolen they were in the stable 0 on the lot where w we e lived dived we found two of the horses before fathers death in in kirn kim bullocks stable in provo got then them back after fathers death from the bishop bullock said they were brought and put in his stable at ni night ftp and he did not know who by lysander dice gee of tooele thoele city has the other horses saw him driving them last fall in G S L city and riding one of them and a rother another man the other in echo kanyon five 0 or r six days after fa fathers t herle death two iwo or three data days before the murder W wilher wilber J earl and A abram ram T Al mcdonald cDonald came to t 0 our house called father outa out and went across the street behind an n unfinished house bouse belonging to cousin cousin witless biti ess started to follow but was wai driven back by A F ale donald w who ho said they wanted to talk privately to father Molher went over into the bou house seand and returned in in about ten minutes rather soon after came in in rather afterwards wrote on 01 a piece of paper what was said to him witness it read about as follows follow s abram F Ai mcdonald cDonald arid and wilher wilber J earl says that I 1 william it parrish i will never see my grey horses any more and it if I 1 start to the city to see brigham loung I 1 will never live to get there abraham durfee was wag at our house fre bently after the let of marchiana march MarchI and up to the tune time of tile the murder he lived in ed hall half a mile from our house pretended Pie tended to father that he could not stand mormonism any long longer ger and I 1 that lie he w anted to get out of the country durfee and potter is were ere there most moat every iday day the die arrangement arrangement was finally made thit that father brother durfee potter and my aalf were to start on sunday night the I 1 march larch 1837 they I 1 hey talked the matter over and concluded that it would not be safe to start in in daytime if we did w we e would be followed and killed as apostates apo sates it was arranged to go out after dark daik and meet about of a mile south of the city wall at a torner of 0 the ine 1 hiie fence durfee and potter were at our house bouse at 10 I 1 on oil tle ile sunday of the murder durfee I 1 was there also at 2 at which time lime lie he arid and father left directing us boys bos where to meet after dark duffee came back be fo foie e dark again after lark dark lasto fasttime last time said father sent u word ord to mother to send us out whether ready or not durfee and brother started I 1 remained at the door talking to mother a minute or t tw othen 0 then overtook them we v e went out gate of city wall two persons followed us on oil the street did not talk much brother anti and I 1 earned bundles bundies of provision and ammunition durfee left us ua at the gate gale said he was goi go g home to ge gat t his gun directed us ua to go to south w vestor est corner ncr of city wall went as directed saw no person heard them inside the wall durfee came to us had his gun asked brother to go v with ith him to get some things that thai he said lie had hid out during tile the day returned to me in ten minutes dulfer said lie ile could riot not find the things while they iv were ere absent a gun w cis as fit filed ed apparently about the corner of the lane fence felice where we were ere to meet when V hen they got back I 1 asked what it meant durfee said some ingiami indians might be camped down there then he said it might be a signal from father or potter we then started a south east course towards tile the corner v m here we were to meet crossd the fence 0 e or two hundred hui hut dred yards arda north of 1 the place into the road after we got into the road durfee called out duff duff duffly duff three times potters name was duff we then stopped and looked to the fence on the east side of the road no io one answered si we went on towards the corner comer m when lien within fifteen or twenty feet of the I 1 corner a person at the coiner called out durfee three times durfee answered immediately a gun un or pistol was fired brother bea season son fell season beason is 13 brother williams middle nime m me Iwas I 1 was nearest durfee bro ther farthest away and a head of us durfee had a blanket and black hat on had a gun and revolver revolt er brother had a black hat 1 on n duffee fee knew we hid had no arms dailee said at d amy N L ly god v hat does this mean witness ess was vi as close to him but away durece urfe e drew u up p ills his g gun un and pointed it at witness a and d bu arsted a cap the gun failing to go of witness fitness went vent further off fi filin om durlee durfee another gun then fired at corner of fence then two or three other shots were fired one hall ball passed through a cartridge box witness had bad on cartridge box shown with ball hole in in it witness jumped fence at ar d ran for the city c limbed climbed the wall at a place where etwas it was low about 7 feet high and was severely injured in gt getting ot off it when he crossed hubble hobble cre creek ek heard person behind ask which way he went witness run to ills his uncles house I 1 some ten or twelve men were standing in the street a little to the left witness got in so quick they could not catch him uncle aunt and cousins at home told them that beason had been shot asked uncle to go and see it if he was alne e uncle was afraid to go got robert brooks to go crooks brooks i went returned in fit a short time 20 minutes arid and said he went to tile the south city gate was I 1 there met by a lot of men inen w m ho to told d him to go back if ahe lie wanted to live halt half art an hour after brooks returned wilber ber J earl 11 if carnes daniel stanton 1 sanford ban toru fuller andrew wiles aid ad a man i I 1 by by the name of curtis came to uncles carnes a arnes asked for me said he be wanted me dead or alive witness was sick from hurt I 1 in 11 jumping tile the wall all and had laid down in in bea bed made uio inc get up to see it if I 1 was shot to told ld him I 1 was sick got up set in chair felt my illy shoulders arid and arms and examined me to see if I 1 was shot said aid he had a wiit for rile me and I 1 must go with him aunt said I 1 was waa sick and not able to go that no I 1 matter when allen they took me she flie would fol low ow them and that they could guard me then a guard was left over rae me in the morning john daily william johnson and a man I 1 dont recollect were svere there as a juard auard tenor eleven was taken by olin ohn daily and others to the meeting house J ohn fohn al stuart acted as justice of the peace twenty or unity chitty men there durfee dorace and I 1 were sworn durfee was examined first dont recollect all he said lie he said he snap ped led a cap at atthe the enemy I 1 told them I 1 knew lothing nothing about it more than Durfee had stated i i that hat I 1 saw nobody no body but saw something some lhing dark toward the corner or of the fence my aly uncle got rot a 1 chance to speak to me in tho the morning an and d he be told me to say that I 1 know knew nothing said if thu they fo found out abat I 1 knew anything I 1 hey aou would kill me that was the reason i testified that way iley discharged me the loice I 1 heard hear walt at the corner of the fence calling durfee was games carnes voice oice hs he has a peculiar voice I 1 knew it wella well and cannot be mistaken the dead bodies were at the I 1 meeting or school when we were sworn rather father laid in the middle ins his throat was cut body was covered up brother rother li fell folva forward when shot on his hands hand five or six shots fired tour four ball holes in in brothers coat ent entering r on oil one side of the breast and coming out on the back coat produced and identified ti fied never suspected trea c hery fr until he pointed the gun at me heard father say that kurfees Dur fees life had been threatened eight in the evening when they were e murdered |
