the effort made by a United States judge to convict the guilty, and the confessions of the latter subsequently obtaine

Parrish's devotion to the church had cooled, and that he was planning to move with his family-a wife and six children-to California; and at a meeting in Bishop Johnson's council house a letter had been read from Brigham Young directing them to ascertain the intention of certain "suspicious characters in the neighborhood,"* and if they should make a break and, being pursued, which he required, he 'would be sorry to hear a favorable report; but the better way is to lock the stable door before the horse is s

lic preaching in Spri

be allowed to leave;

be stopped up with

Mrs. Parrish; appendix

leba

. Stewart, one of the

inct mag

was watched, and how difficult it was for him to get out the few articles required for the trip. Finally, at Parrish's suggestion,

ion, appendix to C

and bring his two sons, Beason and Orrin, to join him. When Durfee returned to the house, at about sunset, he found Potte

drew a knife, clenched with Parrish, and, as he afterward expressed it, "worked the best he could in stabbing him." He "worked" so well that, as afterward described by one of the men concerned in the plot,* the old man was cut all over, fifteen times in the back, as well as in the left side, the arms, and the hands. But Bird knew that his task was not completed, and, as soon as the murder of the elder Parrish was accomp

Bartholemew before

obbery of a neighbor who dared to condemn the crime; a vain appeal by Mrs. Parrish to Brigham Young, who told her he "would have stopped it had he known anything about it," and who, when she persisted in seeking another interview, had her advised to "drop it," and a failure by the

hal, sustained by a military posse, to serve the papers. It was thus that the affidavits and confessions cited were obtained. Then followed a stampede among the residents of the Springville neighborhood, as the judge explained in his subsequent speech, in Congress, the church officials and civil officers being prominen

at there was no escap

southern Utah selected

escape from the territ

fic Railroad was bui

Unveiled,"

I saw a great change in Salt Lake since I was there three years ago. The place is free; the people no longer speak in whis

for protection against the Indians. When they got to a safer neighborhood, the Californians pushed on ahead. Arriving in Kayesville, twenty-five miles north of Salt Lake City, they were at once arrested as federal spies, and their animals (they had an outfit worth in all, about $25,000) were put into th

supposed, being escorted back to Salt Lake City. The two others were attacked by O. P. Rockwell and some associates near the city; one was killed outrig

Destroying An

ate plans to prevent his doing so, has been preserved, not in the testim

, letter to New York

8

rection of the gas works at Lausanne, and reached St. Louis in December, 1853, with about $8000 worth of property. There he was made temporary president of a Mormon church, and there he got his first bad impression of the Mormon brotherhood. On the way to Utah his wife died of cholera, leaving six children, from six to twelve years old. Welcomed as all men with property were, he was made Professor of Chemistry in the University, and soon learned many of the church secrets. "These," to quote his own words, "opene

remarks that I made with respect to Brigham's friends, determined the prophet to order my private execution, as I am able to prove by honest and competent witnesses." Loba adopted every precaution for his own safety, night and day. Then came the news of the Parrish murders, and there was so much alarm among the people that there

to advise the risk of flight. The plan, as finally decided on, was that they two should start alone on April 1, leaving

o travel the main road for twenty-five miles before they reached the mountains, amid which they hoped to baffle pursuit. They were fortunate enough to gain the mountains without detention. There they laid their course, not with a view to taking the easiest or most direct route, but one so far up the mountain side

ept from freezing at night by getting some sage wood from underneath the snow, and using Loba's pocket journal for kindling. Mrs. Loba had to be carried the whole of the last six miles, but this effort brought them to a camp of Snake Indians, among whom were some Canadian traders, and

church authorities sent out horsemen in every direction to intercept

equent Mormon declara

e in Utah than in othe

alt Lake Tribune of Jan

ss than 600 murders hav

ry case at the instiga

upation of the territor

fessing that faith in

o every 2500 of popula

opulation of the United

s ever

ont of the residence of Brigham Young recently the skeleton of a man-a white man-was dug up. A similar discovery was made last wi