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Show 78 W. Babbitt had been killed on the plains by a band of MQrmon maraud- ere who were Ifsent bom Salt Lake City for that plU"pose and. that only under the direct orders of the presidency of the Church of the Latter- day Saints and that Babhitt was not killed by India.ns as reported in '" Utah. HIl This ehage. thoUgh achniU&dly not proved, is neverth.eless iterated and reiterated. by anti-Mormon writers. If the presidency of the Chul"ch sent a party to perpetrate this Qrime? aad they went east for that purpose as t and that purpose only. oharged by Judge Drummond, then the executioners traveled a di$- tance of over seven. hundred miles to return, miles to eo the deed and seven hundred making a di atance of fou.rteen hundt'e,d miles. 1Z In addition to the unlikeliness of such an undertaking at $0 unnecessary a. distance, there was an utter abaence of motive; tor wltile Babbitt was a Gold, independent spirited mall, and not given to yielding im ... plicitly to the suggestions of :eriCh,am Young, ,till there existed no motrve for the cdtne Judge Drummond. chaeged against the Mormon presidency by 13 The Mormon" a Ne'w York. newspaper, published the follOwing article concerning the death of Babbitt; llRoberts, op. cit., IV, a04; also the New York Herald, Marl.':h 30, lZ 13 1857. Roberts) op. cit. Idem. , IV, Z04. |
