Show 214 Lake City Excited hysterical and indignant people Some were in favor of" lynching crowded the court room him and others wanted to tear Mm to shreds because of vhat he had done to their dead But Brigham Young’s 11 Island of banishment to suggestion Antelope prevailed The L D S Journal History continues the story:12 In May last 1862 at the request of Sheriff Burton Henry W Miller of Davis County took John Baptiste the grave robber to Antelope Island in Great Salt Lake He was branded ’’Grave Robber” on his forehead and had his ears out off Newspapers of the day seem to have the story of the John Vinegar grave-robb- er Jr However failed to play up on March 29 found a headless skeleton of a man 1893 at the river Attached to the skeleton’s leg was an iron clamp to which was fastened a ball and chain1® This discovery caused much speculation concerning the iden- mouth of Jordan old timers immediately remembered the incidents surrounding John Baptiste Interviews with tity of the dead man and disclosed more of the facts concerning the banishment of the culprit Henry Heath a member of the Salt Lake City police force who helped care for Baptiste while in Jail and Albert Dewey who helped take Baptiste to the island both told substantially the same story concern- leading II 70 men 11 Mary Henderson "Historic Sites and Landmarks” Journal History" August 4 1862 13 Salt Lake Herald April 2 1893 12 ”L D S |