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Show 79 The Indians had come into the fort and reported that 12 of them had attacked Colonel Babbitt while one of his . r. men was away, and after the colonel had fi:rced his double bal'l"elled gun. and his two revolver's, one of ... the Indians crept behind the wagon and tomahawked the colonel. Fank Towland and Sutherlaad were alae killed. The'Indians said that Colonel Sabbitt fought like a grizzly bear Major Wharton had tnhts possession the p ape r s ; in ... cluding a. draft of $3,000.00 and some of hiS hair His watch obtadne d by a Frenchman rorn the Indians His loss is irrepara.ble; and the Gbvern.ment should was . . . . send at once a sufficient force to punfah, yes, to exterminate this tribe whQ for the last tlu'ee months have' been mu.rdering 14 and her plundering emigrants. ... Onee aga.in the charges made by Drummond. leadelfs were disproved. againt the Mormon The matter is fially set at rest, by the investigation into Sa'b'bitt'$ death by bis brother .... moeeovee , J. E. in Iaw, .. Johnacn, editor of the C:r_scent ity Orale, who published the results of his investigation in his paper, May 22, 1857: We noticed in the lettel!- of resignation, of Honorable W. Drl.l:m:mo.nd to tlle Attorney Oenetll'al Black, that be ther,e, among other very grave charges asserts that the Honorable A. W. Babbitt was mus deze.d by white men disguised as In dians, by order of the authorities of Utah. In jU$tice to the W. ... 1 ... parties thus rna'Hgne d, we will state that we have taken. much pain to gather all the information possible calculated to throw light upon the death of our relative, Mr. Babbitt, and the par tieulas cOl\fteeted with the same; and we have not a shadow of doubt but that the indians of the Cheyenne nation murdered him f 01" revenge and plundering Mr. ... 15 Johnson' s inve$tigation proved that Babbitt had truly been .14Molt'mon, November 15, 1856. 15Milleanial st.ar, XIV, 443. t,..,/ |
