| Show Alair alvirder der ol of corbes tub ea ar r AFFIDAVIT OF ABRAHAM durr Es Ts X OF ulah 1 second judicial district Ditri ct vol iv DI provo city utah county fas abram Durfee being duly sui iw aj j as is follows I 1 have haie rei resided ded in spring it ville ille utah county U T for about eight years rears in the latter part of january 1859 IVil wilber berJ J earl carl came to me m a i springville Spring anville ville and tile me to go alith OR i him to as assist him bun in in lilling killing forbes I 1 told him that I 1 could not go he wanted mantea i some a of the boys he said it it was avas orders to ed kill forbes he did not tay from whom the orders came he colio over oer to the north gatt the a diening ening that forbes was as to be killed it was as satu babury r dy day that lie he in was as tC telling lIlLig me about it slid forbes was I 1 to be kilki tile the next ele eit ning the evenin i 11 went overdo the e Z BJ by earl about a half an hour ot dirk darl earl and sanford J uller fuller lame null anith faibus wilber J earl ordered me io 10 say at the gate he braid that they the yera A er ell going to provo I 1 staid at the gate dutil lutil wilber bilber J earl and califord Sa liford oid fuller canie aim in back which was n as abut about midnight thel lh et mid that they had got rid ut forbes liei lt that was as about all they told tile me that night about a week after afterwards ards wilber J lart told me that they had bad killed forles forbes 1 cl donn don on spring creek about half way toy it 1 l to provo they said baid they shot him they t I 1 baid aid they had bad dug dug a hole near the creek ri and put him in I 1 dont know hat be came cam a of forbes property I 1 saw forbel horse at partial terry benys bince frince and befus e t I 1 t forbes death I 1 dont know how terry i become possessed of forbes horse both earl and fuller told me ine that they hail shot forbes I 1 do not dot know NN here earl or fuller are or either of them at flat tl time I 1 saw earl oil tile imbt dinst at fal lii at salt lake city I 1 went v wi nh h him bon from springville Spring ville to salt lake city m a parted in the city between the temple block bloc and the De deveret eret store and I 1 hae baie 1 not seen him since I 1 saw aw fuller bastin last in 1 springville Spring ulle ville too tt 0 o weeks abeels ago last saturday in the evenin evening g signed ABRAHAM sworn su orn and subscribed before me ine this hit 1st ast day of april 1859 CRADLE cradlebaugh DAUGH see also Bartholo mews testimony to the death of forbes in corroborate corroboration ion of the above evidence we find in a copy of the bew york daily times of aug ad 18 1838 1859 59 the fol following lowin statement made to the times correspondent in this city by a mr mcneill McNeil li a gentile who was imprisoned in this valley jalley during the ni inter of 57 and 58 59 anil and who narrowly escaped being hini self murdered by the mormons cormons Mor mons mr sicy neill is now dow absent from the territory A young man forbes whose w isains stifle mcneill does not remember came here from california last year and went to board with a man named terry at it Spring springville ville some time afterwards afterward chis hia revolvers were stolen from the hvisc during the daytime day time and his horse carried off from the field terry told hit him a that they had been earned carried off by indians Indian 3 and he never able trace of 01 was w as to get any hem on ora a S sunday evening r clothe nt jo the tho the thefts terry started arteil st for cab lie h as he said and the young man N hurc ell him fasttime last 3 time N was ever ener seen cen alive three IX latter 0 he 0 ort W later an all indian india reported a corpse alij abys three tiree i and a half miles below in in woods ds mahich uron examination wa tobe 0 o be that of the oun sti it anger OP ilk the iet day terry was seen een rid ing 13 aden elden bo horse arse about town with 9 of decease d in ia his belt pitol the i |
