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Show BROUGHT McBRIDE TO PROVO. Another Letter as to the Fillmore Killing-sheriff Turner Secures the Prisoner. Fillmore, March 21; 188G. Editor Democrat: Sheriff Turner-arrived Turner-arrived here some time this morning for the prisoner Reuben McBride, some of the citizens having sent to Provo and represented how things stood here.-They here.-They started for Provo about the middle of the afternoon, accompanied by our-own our-own sheriff and one man more. This puts an end to the farce enacted by our city officers, and places the man where law-abiding citizens want him to be in the hands of the law. This thftV did nnf I feel while he was here. Our officers have earned the most thorough contempt by every man who thought they possessed a spark of honor before. It was said on the street bv one of the witnesses that Mr. McBride had done the shooting with a new revolver sent him by his son (who is sheriff of Tooele) to shoot U. S. marshals with if they came to take him for polygamy. What does he think of his message now? Mr. J. Jackson, the father-in-law of the murdered man, went to Mr. Alma Greenwood, Green-wood, one of the new bondsmen for the I sheriff, and demanded that the prisoner be put in jail. He went from him to the other bondsman, James Melville, and made the same demand, and from him to the bishop, T. C. Callister, who is our City Mayor and Justice of the Peace, and made the same demand. They all with one ax-ord denied their right to put him m prison without first giving him a hearing, hear-ing, which was already set for ten days hence, March 29th. The murder hap pened on the 17th. The old bondsmen for the Sheriff having been released on the 18th, by their own request, these two were accepted, neither of whom is supposed to be worth the required amount, I $5,000. They were guarding the prisoner at his own house all the time, and rumor has it that the guards stayed below and let him sleep up stairs. This Bame man McBride has, when sheriff some vears ago, put men in the jail upon trumped-up charges without ever cleaning it out, it having been used as a privy by children and passers-by. Ihis can be attested by competent witnesses, wit-nesses, while the justice of the peace who consigned the men to the cell was one of those men who got released for being be-ing bondsmen for the sheriff, likely fearing fear-ing that trouble might ensue, and, if brought up before the law in connection with this he might be indicted for polygamy polyg-amy at the same time. Wide Awake |
