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Show 508 WESTERN WILDS. came running from the wagons calling for her husband. A man standing near to me shot her in the back, and she fell dead. Being ordered to gather up the children, I went a quarter of a mile to the wagons ; the wounded men had been killed before we got there ; did not see Lee put the children in the wagon ; went to Hamlin's house. The soldiers then dispersed. The company from Washington County went south ; the company from Cedar City went to Hamlin's. I had my hands full with the children ; seventeen of them, from two to seven or eight years of age ; two were wounded, and one died on the way. [ The witness then details the gathering and distribution of the prop-erty.] The draught animals, wagons, and clothing were taken to Cedar City ; fifty head of the emigrants' stock were branded with the church brand ( a cross). [ He also describes the meeting of Lee in Salt Lake, where he had been sent to report the massacre to Brigham Young.] Witness and Charley Hopkins called upon Brigham ; he directed wit-ness to turn over the property to Lee. Brigham turned to witness and said : l What do you know about this affair ? Keep it secret and don't talk about it among yourselves.' Lee was present at this inter-view. Fifty head of cattle were driven to Salt Lake, and sold to Hooper, formerly delegate to Congress, for boots and shoes." [ Wit-ness then tells how he was sent to the old lead mines at Vegas, Arizona, with two others to get lead, and when he returned, the property at Cedar City had been auctioned off.] Judge Sutherland subjected the witness to a long and searching cross- examination, but failed to shake his testimony in the slightest. Joel White testified at great length as to the orders issued for calling out the militia, which he understood to come from Col. Dame ; of the massacre and distribution of the property ; of the seventeen little children saved, and of afterwards seeing the Indian, deputed for that purpose, cut the throat of the boy who was " big enough to remember and talk about it." He insisted that he took no part in the massacre, and only went with the militia because he feared death if he refused. Klingensmith had admitted actual participation in the killing. Mrs. Ann Eliza Hoge testified to what was done at both councils, ' where the massacre was determined and where Lee made his report. Also to hearing the boy say of an Indian : " He killed my pa he's got on my pa's clothes," and that this boy was taken away by John D. Lee, and never seen again. Witness was a French Mormon; at the time of the massacre the wife of an elder at Harmony. I afterwards talked at great length with her, in Salt Lake City, and gained many important particulars. |
