| Show murder of henry jones anti and isis ilia mother AFFIDAVIT OF NATHANIEL CASE TERRI TERRITORY fory OF UTAH cedar cc county as 8 nathaniel athaniel Is case cas e being b sworn r says a that he be has resided n the he tv territory I ayao of f aadi utah since face the year 1850 lived with bishop hancock charles charlea hancock in in the town of payson parson at the time henry jones and bis big mother ia ere murdered about the of april 1858 the night to the murder a secret council C I 1 meeting at vas as held in the upper room of bishop hancocks house saw charles ilan iian cork cock george IV hancock ancock JI daniel rawson james bracken george patten and price nelson go into that meeting that night mee ings T i had been held pretty regularly for three weeks before the last one at the same place I 1 was not in in any of the meeta meetings I 1 beai boarded tied at the bishops about 8 in the evening of trie tile murder the company gathered at basho bishop ey lian cocks s the same persons I 1 bai haie e named na in above were in in the company the they said they were going to guard a corral vicere A b ere henry jones was going going to come that night and steal horses they had ad guns I 1 had a good d minnie minine rifle and bishop hancock agoot wan wanted ed to 0 borrow it I 1 refused to lend t to him the above persons persona all IA ent away together I 1 dont know what nhat time they got sack back next morning I 1 heard that henry jones and his mother had bad been killed I 1 anet down to the dugout dug out where here they lived when hen the sun was about an hour high the old woman was staying laying on the ground in the dugo dugout dug o out U ton on a little tie straw in the clothes in in which she was killed she had a bullet hole bole through her head 1 anteri entering g near the centre of the forehead 1 in about 15 or 20 minutes henry jones v avas as brought there and laid by hercide her side e they then threw some old bed clothes clothe s over th them em and an old feather bed and then pu pulled bulhe the dugout dug out on top of them the ciu dugout dug out t was as built on level ground a hole 0 about 12 feet et a spare juare dug to the depth of 5 feet a ridge po pule e running from the centre back 3 feet above the level of the ground small mall poles are then laid up close together running from the sides up onto the rida ridge pole so 80 that the dirt wont fall through the T e dirt taken out of the hole bole to is thrown back onto the poles for a roof and steps cut down into the end like cellar steps for entrance there is a great many of such houses occupied by b poor people in this county who are not able to build houses and who never will while t they stay here tile the next sunday after the murder in in a church burch c meeting in payson parson charles hancock II ancock the bishop said as to the killing of jones all and d his mother he cared nothing about it and it have been done in in daylight if circumstances would have permitted it th this is was w as said from the stand sta nd there were or pe persons esons present lie he gave no reasons for killing them and further saith not CASE sworn to and signed before me this ath day of april 1859 1850 JOHN CRADLE cradlebaugh BAUGn judge 2nd and judicial district AFFIDAVIT or OF ANDREW S MOORE TERRITORY or OF UTAH 2nd and judicial district ss as provo C city t andrew J moore being duly T sworn says us as follows a I 1 live at pondtown Pond town in utah co ahad I 1 had lived there only a few adayr da B and got tims time in the night in afie month of april 1838 1858 1 1 cant recollect tile la da of tile hie month there was an a alarm art raised 1 in hie be ni night t between c n 12 and 2 0 clock heard the alarm to raise th the s fort I 1 jumped up tip ind and ran nil out v without dressing I 1 taw ravy nothing and went back into th the bouse to dress U aez I 1 thought at tile the i time it was a breal break of the indians after dressing tsing I 1 A w ent out agan again aud and hen henry ry jones had just come in in eidl I 1 went t to 0 where the people had gathered and the persons two tavo or three men inen stian gra tone tome were just taking alling henry jones out of the fort I 1 did riot not po go outside of the tort fort which is is now called pondtown Pond town tit until the next morning inor and then I 1 saw henry jones lying dead tit in the middle of the ali roa about 80 rots rois west eat from j the fort the sis was then about an hour high hit about ten or fifteen ini minutes after the left the fort with henry J jens 0 n 9 I 1 it persons ard the report of a gun gull I 1 thin think I 1 h heard c rd four reports its inside of two ini minutes the reports r 0 were in in the direction that jones was f found and appeared to tnie have been fired about bet e the dead body was fou found lid I 1 saw 3 bullet holes in the body of jones two of them were mere in ins his side and one in in his head bead the hie report was that the persons N who ho took jones out of the tort fort came front from the town of payson which is is about three miles in in a westerly direction from pondtown Pond town I 1 was wag riot not acquainted in in payson iliad I 1 had gone fro provo 0 to live at pondtown Pond town shortly before that I 1 do not know an thing about the mother of henry jones and I 1 do not know anything about the burial of jones I 1 never heard of any 1 in I 1 n nest being held on the body of jones signed big ned ANDREW J al kwoi n and subscribed before me this byth d day a ol of march 1859 JOTIN judge 2nd ad judicial dis district brict 1 AFFIDAVIT or oil THOMAS TERRITORY OF UTAH 65 8 1 utah county S thomas being duly sworn 1 says he here resides a id e in Pond pondtown town in I 1 n utah coyn county was in in n at the time henry jones jonea was murdered murder e d in the night beaw ern n and daylight a year ago in in this coming coming ap april rd we were alarmed we se supposed the indians indians had made an attack upon tile the outposts of the town we that is at affiant fiant his son and nd others jumped up and run out directly weneard we heard the theory cry or of murder when hen we ve got out into the yard tile the man came up and said ahti they were after him to kill him said where inhere sha shall ig I 1 go where shall I 1 hide from them about thi this time his pursuers came up he then saw them and made a bolt into a house of 0 mr lycurgus wilson jumped over a bed where a woman was lying on the floor and tried to secrete himself in the house wilson brought him out ot of the house the man of the pursuers rs said lay hold of that man said to eursa be e a constable from payson they called him george I 1 hai is e since seen him it is is george IV hancock Hanc ocL lit lie told them to disarm jones Jon jones eshad had a pistol and knife lut but did of ier to use them lie ile was disarmed there was aas no charge in m the pistol I 1 noticed blod blo d running from hn his arm he said they had shi t b im in the th pursuit ahe 6 ball went avent through his arm below the elbows elbow one or two pel son came up with geor george geore e I 1 1 never heard hear who they were vere it was dept kept dark clark nothing said about it some bom one spoke and wanted to know what th they were going to do with the man inan geo gild sai I 1 know what I 1 am going to do with ith him some one said tins this hore hone stealing has gut got to be stopped they ibey passed out in the direction of pa laason son payson is in distant 22 miles we went into the house and I 1 was talking the matter over with my son in in about 15 minutes after we ve went in we heard beard the report of fire arms three or four shots in succession appeared to be pistol shots from the gregort report at which tune time we went to the door A about out five fie or ten minutes after some one came up and said they had shot the man I 1 went v ent over and found him lying in tile the road two balls hid taken effect in his body and one in in hia big head the persons who i ho had bad bm birn in in cu custody tod y had fled the he body was taken away aw ay in the be orning morning report says that the mother of jo jones ties was shot at payson A while bile sitting in her own house houie at the time these persons were pursuing jones hollinghead sworn and signed before me this of march 1859 JOHN cradlebaugh AFFIDAVIT or ABNER M TERRITORY OF UTAH utah county abner al being sworn says lived at pondtown Pond town at the time jones was murdered heard unusual none noise in the night went out of my house stepped back an and dressed noise approached A person entered the tort fort stating staling he be was wag pursued asked for a hiding place mr lycurgus wilson asked him what was the matter manhave man gave no satisfactory answer two men suddenly came running up shouting arrest that man suppose one of the men to be geo IV hancock judging from his voice dont know who abo the other man was the two men took the other out towards payson the tha same way be came in afterwards heard that the man was 11 jones ten minutes after the two men left heard report of fire arms in in the direction they went heard beard four shots three shots in in luicle succession the ath shot a minute later heard hancock ancock II was an officer at payson saw dead body next morning about 80 rods from the fort the bod body was taken to payson no inq inquest held at pond ond town no person called to rive give evidence body lying in in the road in in the direction that tha t I 1 heard the shots I 1 saw blood lying in anthe the road occurred in in spring I 1 am a farmer at that time but part of the crop was in and further deponent saith not signed AT HOLLI subscribed and sworn to before me akis this march 1859 JOHN cradlebaugh AFFIDAVIT OF air AMOS B moon TERRITORY OF UTAH second judicial judici a I 1 D district I 1 8 tri C t a s city of provo J anos amos B moor alcor being dily ga I 1 a as s fol follows lon vei live hive at pod town low L C D nt t ty y 0 one n e n night 1 g 1 I 1 I 1 in n the mon month h of h i ia cant tree recollect rf collect 0 1 1 t the i e day a an alarm wital wa L in the hie fort and I 1 was awakened by the th tit when I 1 got up and went out into the iba par ae 1 some men car bait at tell how man many nor v 40 V ws tt were had lust st takena man out 0 of tl fort i ft afdera aeils arils cju that usi lis name m biag as henry 3 i 1101 1 s after standing there about ten or fiam AS L minutes I 1 heard the report of a gun guli or ral P ato in fit westerly esterly direction directs on on oil the a road to oh p ii y ill ai a aia son ion 1 I judged the distance to be f om 75 ro rods d s filin the fort I 1 heard four jo tho AC in pretty quick succession succession taj ile in about half an hour after I 1 heard JC shots I 1 went out in company compana IN ith son sonie ot hi t h t list pers persons ons dont recollect their names to t what hat tile the shooting was about isa I 1 saw a 11 1 aa s 5 1 to ing crossways in the middle of t the it roa ad i r was lead dead it wu was henry jones 1 I 1 aas va that was his name f I 1 dont know inow that any inquest was liali ira the boda I 1 beard alterm afterwards ards that a a ls 1 named amed hatch took abe boly body to 1 gayso amann 11 1 dont know anat anything b ID about b ri t henry ile J I 1 apan a dav mother nor about me burial al 0 of farlo jon i be had just a short time before ta that a t movi inov alt i I 1 J pondtown Pond town from provo to leal iea I 1 heard beard that the men who aho took ion gonei ea boni fo jim poll Pond pondtown deown town had corns come from payson t his A sue a report only I 1 knew nothing of it 04 0 1 all rin own on kno knowledge viled 4 iny w I 1 went out again at daylight ani and wa sa I 1 jones a ain isaev two bullet holes one in hit hi el left side and nd the other in his head 1 b go close to the body I 1 understood that ar 1 i Hatch jones step farther so BO report f corne come when the sun was about an hour our and andt half high and took the body to payson Sg signed ned AMOS B moon sworn and subscribed before me eke this 1 W daios day of march 1851 diio lo 10 cradlebaugh judge second juill district |
