| Show c COPT PT 0 or r CORONERS INQUEST copied from aront the f he Jus justices lien docket for spreg t alle ile precinct SPRING springville VILLE march 15 1857 this day about 10 pm p in 1 I john af stewart an acting justice of the peace in the th county of uta utah U T was called upon and informed that some borne dead buchea badiea had been found near this city I 1 considered the matter and as no coroner was at hand band I 1 considered it my duty to hold an inquest over oer said bodies accordingly I 1 summoned twelve discreet men and proceeded to the a spot t vve where ere said bodies were said to have hae apon been discovered discovered which is ia about rods south of the south gate of Spring springville ville city when we arrived there we found two dead bodie tig s two guns cun some borne two tio or three lilan bets and sack back of bread c I 1 qualified the jury and we ave proceeded to examine amine x the bodies the first body examined was recognized to be wm win B parrish it a appeared eared to the jury that hr be cime came to his big cipp death e t h in conse clence of many knife wounds inflicted on his bedl body and especially in his hia throat the tbt se second i was ascertained to be gardner G potter in whose breast were discovered four ball holes which abich no ijo doubt caused his death A third body av as found by the guard some fifteen rods the two former in in almost an east direction this I 1 body bod was wag recognized as season beason parrish Par riEb ile he kad had been shot sho with two balls in in the front art part of his left arm and three in the back of his is left shoulder which ellich no doubt caused his death the decision or verdict of the jury was as follows viz the above named bodies all came to their death by the hands handa of assassins to us unknown JOHN AT STEWART JP T P A F mcdonald foreman al N crandal N T Guy guymon inon uriah curtis S P curtis curbs john daley wm win smith G mckenzie philo dibble wilber J earl joseph bartholomew thos G sprague property properly found on the bodies on the person of wm win B parrish one pair buckskin gloves one watch going 5 minutes past 11 a purse with a few trinkets 1 large dirk knife 1 pocket knife I 1 pistol loaded and capped worsted needles and thread 1 small piece of tobacco one small handkerchief two combs and a small box of matches on the person of G G potter I 1 powder horn with powder 4 bullets and a few caps on the person of season parrish pouch and powder born containing 1 box of caps 11 pound balls 1 charger 1 pair moccasins 1 pair bullet moulds 1 belt and knife 1 large gair box ox of matches some pepper I 1 awl small flowered cloth and ribbon and one pipestem also found on the ground 1 sir 3 blankets one rifle loaded not capped I 1 double barrel gun a minis mime rifle the other for shot the rifle barrel shot off 2 sacks the first containing 7 plugs of tobacco 2 pair soc socks I 1 I 1 pair f fine ine pants drawers inside three chee check shirts 1 red shaving implements 2 gair pair cotton pants I 1 comfort 2 suspenders I 1 butcher utcher knife hati bata lying near the bodies second sack containing two large loaves of bread and quantity of biscuit 2 tin cups lib bullets some bome coffee and sugar I 1 took the bodies and everything found on and about them to the Spring springville ville Acil school ool house where they were strictly guarded washed and dressed I 1 ordered ro coffing 8 to be er prepared re pared graves to be dug and the bodies to be e decently interred it was understood that the frien a it of the Parris hes would afra defray their funeral expenses subsequently I 1 il de liveten the found property claimed by the abe friends of the two Parris hes to lo orrin par rish I 1 had caused the cloth clothes es of potter to be washed and delivered the them friends and nd the found property claimed by his big frenda to them signed J M JP COPY or F CORONERS copied from front a loose sheet of paper m in the bove above a named docket spring olle ille city utah Count county yUT UT lelh march 1857 5 we the undersigned undersigner under signed jurors being summoned on the i ight of the dinst to told hold al ai inquest on dead bodies lound found about ro rods d s a south of the south gate of city we repaired to the bodies we were there and then duly sworn to examine the bodies and render a just verdict thereon the first body was recognized to be wm win it parris parri h b his head lying east cast three cuts brid ard one shot in in the neck one of these a large gash on the left side throat three stabs in back on the left side the second was mas reco recognized nihed to be gardner G potter lying in the same position beside the other body bod four ball holes holca in the breast both these bodies had been apparently dragged from the middle of the state road about tw 0 and a half rods east A third body was found by the guard fifteen rods east fromA from where here theother the other bodies lay he be was recognized to be season beason parrish lying on his back head bead east three bullet holes under left shoulder from the above testimony and others vi aich we availed ourselves ourse ours hesi elvel of at the place of examination we render the following verdi verdict ct viz that they all came to their death by the hands of assassins to us un cnown enow n signed same as inquest talen taken from the book ED the inquest taken from the book of the justice ustice runs through several pages from the to the evidently having been written long iong after the time of holding the lie pretended inquest it was written on small S spaces paces left on oil the docket where other regular entries had bad been made in oi older der to make it appear as though it was placed there at the time that it should have been the reader should observe the character of these precious documents and the tact fact that the ju justice stice and many of the jurors are found in the council meetings spoken of by bartholo mew a and U d durfee I 1 several of them were or on the grand jury in the district court at tt term lately held by judge cradlebaugh |
