| OCR Text |
Show For Governor UTAH TERRITORY, ..." Samuel A. Merritt. GONE. " Joseph McMurrin who made an assault upon Deputy Marshal Collin about a month since, has gone. Why he has gone is a matter of conjecture, but the conjecture in everyone's mind will be that he has left because he was afraid that under the fire of a cross-examination, the truth concerning his encounter with Collin would come out. His sudden disappearance at this time will convince !all parties that he was in the lane near the Social Hall for the purpose of Tnur- dering Collin. An innocent man who was in that lane on legitimate business and ran against another and struck at that other merely with his fist because he did not like him, and who received re-ceived two bullets in his body because he merely struck at a man, has no need to shun an investigation or put himself in hiding. Deputy Marshal Collin has not rim away and is on hand to meet any charges against him, yet the man that the press of the Mormon church termed j "a fine and stalwart young man, as j deeply respected as he is widely known," and upon whom an attempt at murder 'was made, according to their own press, j has gone so soon as he was able to move. What explanation will be given by this j press for this action? Men who are set upon and shot by assassins do not leave f the country as a rule, while those who imade the attempt to assassinate them re- main and can be seen at any time. The f Herald, which termed the assault upon Collin a "foul murder," speaks of his dis-i dis-i appearance in these terms I Whether McMurrin has disappeared, as his friends will doubtless urge, feeling that 1 as affairs are at present here he could not i hope for an impartial hearing, or whether he has flown, as his enemies will claim, from j an.investigation, which he rather feared than j desired, are matters whioh only the future can disclose. I Each will put his own construction upon the flight of McMurrin, but certain it is that he is gone ; and certain it is also that j "the wicked flee when no man pursueth, I while the righteous are bold as a lion." |
