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Show 522 WESTERN WILDS. said I was a good, liberal, free- hearted man, but too much of this sympathy would be always in the way ; that every man now had to show his colors; that it was not safe to have a Judas in camp. Then it was proposed that every man express himself; that if there was a man who would not keep a close mouth, they wanted to know it then. This gave me to understand what I might expect if I continued to oppose. Major Higbee said: " Brother Lee is right. Let him take an expression of the people." I knew I dare not refuse, so I had every man speak and express himself.' All said they were willing to carry out the counsel of their leaders ; that the leaders had the Spirit of God, and knew better what was right than they did. The massacre is then related in detail down to the time when the wounded men in the wagons were killed, after which the confession continues : At this moment I heard the scream of a child. I looked up and saw an Indian have a little boy by the hair of his head, dragging him out of the hind end of the wagon, with a knife in his hand, getting ready to cut his throat. I sprang for the Indian, with my revolver in hand, and shouted to the top of my voice : " Arick, ooma, cot too sooet," ( stop, you fool.) The child was terror- stricken. His chin was bleeding. I supposed it was the cut of a knife, but afterward learned that it was done on . the wagon- box as the In-dian yanked the boy down by the hair of the head. I had no sooner rescued this child, than another Indian seized a little girl by the hair. I rescued her as soon as I could speak ; I told the Indians that they must not hurt the children that I would die before they should be hurt ; that we would buy the children of them. Before this time the Indians had rushed up around the wagon in quest of blood, and dispatched the two runaway wounded men. * : ******** * - I got up, saw the children, and among the others the boy who was pulled by the hair of his head out of the wagon by the Indian and saved by me. That boy I took home and kept home until Dr. Forney, Government Agent, came to gather up the children and take them East. He took the boy with the others. The boy's name was Fancher. His father was captain of the train. He was taken East, and adopted by a man in Ne-braska, named Richard Sloan. He remained East several years, and then returned to Utah, and is now a convict in the Utah penitentiary, having been convicted the past year for the crime of highway robbery. He is well known by the name of " Idaho Bill," but his true name is William Fancher. His little sister was also taken East, and is now the wife of a man working for the Union Pacific Railroad Company, near Green River. * * * * * * * * * * * * Some two weeks after the deed was done, Isaac C. Haight sent me to report to Gov-ernor Young in person. I asked him why he did not send a written report. He replied that I could tell him more satisfactorily than he could write, and if I would stand up and shoulder as much of the responsibility as I could conveniently, that it would be a feather in my cap some day, and that I would get a celestial salvation, but the man that shrunk from it now would go to hell. I went and did as I was commanded. Brigham asked me if Isaac C. Haight had written a letter to him. I replied, not by me; but he wished me to report in person. " All right," said Brigham. " Were you an eye- witness? " " To the most of it," was my reply. Then I proceeded and gave him a full history of all, except that of my opposition. That I left out entirely. I told him of the killing of the women and children, and the betraying of the company; that, I told him, I was opposed to; but I did not say to him to what extent I was opposed to it, only that I was opposed to shedding innocent blood. " Why," said he, " you differ from |