Show correspondence kendir tl THE HORRIBLE ole of JOSEPH W juas CO UTAH jan lath 1887 editor deseret news you xou will confer a fa favo voton Iloa the wife and family and many friends 0 by publishing in the news the enalo enclosed s eg statements of facts concerril concerning ug the death of brother joseph E F hartley in order to I 1 refute the false statements taken from the butte batte miner 1 I I 1 HEBER W HARTLEY MONTANA jan 1887 mrs joseph F hartley dear madam mr mccune wishes me to write to you in regard to your husbands unfortunate death joseph was cooking for me lip to jo ame toree three days before his bis gasn wasn notified oti to break up the tha he was 06 cooking king on account of snow being so deep joseph bald he would wait tot fot two or three days to see if he could set get work if not he wOuld so home tor a I 1 while he shopped in wal kerville until the day dat before his death which was sunday he moved down to butte to a cibic wilh a friend of his who had bad been helping liia aim iu in the kitchen on sunday plight ua wt t rhe he stopped in in what is called the 11 bufete uttel lodging house until he could gat a bunk fixed up where his friend stopped to stay with him afternoon he went to his friends cabin and while there shaved Ms his friend I 1 then a third party same in and wished them to go with him to his rooms which were in the house that burned down they Ther all went ito to the friends room had not been they there d but a short s ho it time until it the jae t fire broke out they were ware up stairs when the alarm of fire was given this friend third party said 11 A help elp save my trunk for all I 1 have Is in it t 11 joseph and the other person took hold of the te trunk and aad started down stairs with it but the article was wag so large that it caught in the stairway and andai ot fast fait they left it and went to the window in abel room they started from and ben dodson the first person parson jo 40 seph went to see pushed the other person out of the window then told josepa to get out and the latter told him to jump juin p and hip he did so thinking joseph 0 seph would follow him As soon as he struck the ground he stayed and looked for joseph but he did not come by this time I 1 was there he came to me and told me tie he was sure that joseph was burned to death or he would have been out before then I 1 waited until the fire was MI out and they found the body we could tell it was joseph by a little of his underclothes clothes sand and par of his suspender end eralso also them the handle of a tooth b brush lie he po bought aught the day before the only part that was not charred black was his breast which lay on the floor so the fire are oid did not get at ai it to blacken it I 1 did all I 1 could with A W wj j 8 Mc mcclunes McCu Cunes jaes help to get him ain ipas good condition to ship as possible and I 1 can truly say that thab 1 mourn his hip loss with all h f I 1 thought considerable of 4 in J I 1 will send his trunk in a few days as soon as I 1 9 get tit it he had just bought hipa im a new suit wit of clothes and were all burnad with the body yours respectfully re fully J H P my brother joseph was postmaster in nephi lor for many years and had won the respect of the public by hia bid kind and gentlemanly manner but having refused to take the test oath to retain his bis position he be was discharged which necessitated him to seek employment elsewhere he went to montana and was employed emp loved by mr A W mccune and was laboring co 60 accumulate means to return to his family and friends H W H |