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Show INTERVIEW: Gary Shumway with Albert Lyman, July 31, 1968. Page 6 to try them, and it was quite a surprise to them, I was there. They wanted me to defend them. Keller came here, he was the prosecuting attorney and he told them, ' Now I'm here to prosecute you, if you've got anybody you want to defend you, why get him here.' I was teaching school in the room above and they sent for me to come and defend them. I'm no lawyer, and the way that they revelled there at noon would naturally indicate that they didn't have a great, much, a great deal of faith in my legal ability because they waited until Posey came in there and talked in his Paiute to them, and we couldn't understand him. He had that thing all plotted and they went, but I was there. Excuse me. Our people feel kindly towards them. We shut them up there in the bull pen and they had imposed on us for a long time. And we sent to the government to come and they sent a man in here by the name of McKeen. He was a hard headed business man and he came in here and expected to take them out to the reservation. And he called our people in there to give their evidence against them so he could take them out. And our people didn't feel mean towards them like he expected. He wanted to just round them up and take them out of here. And when he asked us about them and saw how we felt, he was astonished. He said, ' Well, now look here. Before you Mormons become too damn forgiving in this matter we want it understood that these people have got to obey the law if they are |
