| Show CARD FROM TUB FATHER OF B E M DALTON editor deseret news new please allow me to gratefully present to you and through your commas columns to all others who have assisted in the hour of sore affliction the heartfelt gratitude and thanks of tae grief ii parents and family of at the mar murdered dered edwarda Edwar dM dalton for the vindication of the true character of the deceased and for the unwearied pains and noble efforts in bringing to light and publishing the facts in regard to his assassination in in parowan carowan at the hands of deputy wm win thompson thomoso ani jr and his associates also for the manly y and well deserved rebukes that have been administered to the apologists of murder and rapine and for the timely and truthful refutations reputations and denials of falsehoods the and slanders published against the living and dead growing out of the occasion ocoa sion to whitewash the murderous deed my feeling are now and have beeb bee from the beginning that thompson will not noc be brought to imprisonment and that the ostensible efforts being made in that direction will amount to a very little if anything more than a mockery of justice under the present legal rule from the sworn statements made my conviction is that the murder was planned and designed from the first else why the borrowing and use of a rifle from a covered position ion that the deputies intended to till kill their victim not giving him any chance to surrender or escape and that thea the did it in malice and for an effect and a boast ahat they might have it to say 1 I too have killed a mormon 1 and then take shelter under the official pretense of making makin an arrest MARD DALTON Januar yi ath 1887 |
