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Show MAY BE ERADICATED. 191 As to the perpetration of other crimes in the same local ity, by the same parties, I will refer again to the speech of Judge Cradlebaugh. On this subject he remarks : " Sitting as committing magistrate, complaint after com plaint was made before me of murders, and robberies. Among these I may mention as particularly and shockingly prominent the murder of Forbes, the assassination of the Parishes and Potter, of Jones and his mother, of the Aiken party, of which there were six in all, and worst and darkest in the appalling catalogue of blood, was the cowardly and cold- blooded butchery and robbery at the Mountain Mea dows." That these crimes might be brought before the law, and the perpetrators punished, the Judge established a court in the vicinity, with military protection, and impannelled a grand jury of Mormons, of course, as there were no other residents to compose it, and their attention was called to the cases before alluded to ; but " the jury thus instructed, though kept in session two weeks, utterly refused to do any thing, and were finally discharged as an evidently useless appendage of a court of justice." This jury furnishes- an example of the fact, to which I have elsewhere referred, that a Mormon jury would not convict a Mormon prisoner. But Judge Cradlebaugh was determined to leave nothing undone that was in his power to do, to bring the criminals to punishment; and as the grand jury would not find a " bill," he decided to issue bench- warrants, which were placed in the hands of the marshal, aided by a military posse, when a general stampede took place among the Mor mons ; and, says the Judge, " what I want most particularly to call your attention to as a particularly noticeable fact, that this occurred more among the church officials and civil officers." Another act of barbarity occurred in 1862. A band of disaffected Mormons ( disaffected so far as the rule of Brigham was concerned) separated from the church under the leader ship of one Morris, and were known as the Morrisites. He established a settlement on the Weber River. A dispute |