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Show THE MORMON MURDERERS. 507 man was thoroughly photographed by every attendant. He was a heavy, rather stolid looking Dutchman, six feet high, well muscled, slow, heavy, and phlegmatic. He had been indicted along with the others, and a nolle entered. He began with extreme slowness, amount-ing almost to stupidity, but as he went along gradually grew more ani-mated ; his dull eye lit up, the blue veins stood out on his forehead, and his every feature and muscle seemed to work as in sympathy with the horrors he was reciting. In the most blood- curdling scene, where he told of the shooting of some women who had children in their arms, every eye in the room turned as with one impulse to Lee. His light hair fairly vibrated with emotion ; his Hibernian features were mingled red and purple ; and, as he literally shook in his chair, the great veins stood out on his neck like cords, and he seemed to grasp at his throat as if choking ! In that awful moment he tasted the bitter-ness of death. I would not have recognized him as the man at whose table I ate, three years before, on the Colorado. Beside him sat two of his wives, and close by, most of the Gentile ladies of Beaver. The material part of Klingensmith's testimony ran thus : " We were halted a quarter of a mile from the emigrants, and in full sight. A man went on with a flag of truce. A person came out from the emigrant camp, and Lee went down, and he and the emigrant negotiated. They sat down and had a long talk. Lee then went in-side the camp, and the soldiers stood in line three or four hours. Lee was inside the intrenchment most of the time, and finally the emi-grants came out. " Higbee ordered the proceedings. Lee went ahead with the wagons containing the men wounded in the attack made by the Indians. The young children and women were marched behind. The men came out next in double rank. The soldiers marched by their side with their pieces across their arms. We were protect-ing the emigrants. Some expressed their thankfulness at being de-livered from the Indians. We marched from a quarter to half a mile, and command was given to halt. The soldiers had been in-structed when they halted to fire on the emigrants ; might have been shifted to single rank ; think they were. Higbee gave the orders to fire ; suppose there were fifty men killed ; might have been more ; none escaped; saw some attempt; there were mounted men to dis-patch the fugitives. Bill Stewart chased one fleeing man ; I think I saw him fall ; he did not go far. Ira Allen was mounted and placed on the left wing. Witness was " with the men in the ranks and fired one time. John M. Higbee cut one man's throat. One large woman |