Polygamy; or, The mysteries and crimes of Mormonism, being a full and authentic history of this strange sect from its origin to the present time. . t never asked what it wasfor, and had never heard of a massacre there! The whole ex-amination after this broke down from mere absurdity, and aftergetting three non-Mormons the prosecution gave it up andallowed the Mormons to select the rest of the jury. 182 polygamy; or, the mysteries The first witnesses raerely detailed the appearance of theground a few days after the massacre; then Philip Klingen-sraith was called, and every eye and ear was strai
Polygamy; or, The mysteries and crimes of Mormonism, being a full and authentic history of this strange sect from its origin to the present time. . t never asked what it wasfor, and had never heard of a massacre there! The whole ex-amination after this broke down from mere absurdity, and aftergetting three non-Mormons the prosecution gave it up andallowed the Mormons to select the rest of the jury. 182 polygamy; or, the mysteries The first witnesses raerely detailed the appearance of theground a few days after the massacre; then Philip Klingen-sraith was called, and every eye and ear was strained till the manwas thoroughly photographed by every attendant. He was aheavy, rather stolid-looking Dutchman, six feet high, wellmuscled, slow and phlegmatic. He had been indicted alongwith the others, and a nolle entered. He began with extremeslowness, amounting almost to stupidity, but as he went alonggradually grew more animated; his dull eye lighted up, theblue veins stood out on his forehead, and his every feature andmuscle seemed to work as in sympathy with the horrors he wasreciting. In the most blood-curdling scene, where he told of. HAMLINS INDIAN BOY ALBERT. the shooting of some women who had children in their arms,every eye in the room turned as with one impulse to Lee. Hislight hair fairly vibrated with emotion; his Hibernian featureswere mingled red and purple; and, as he literally shook in hischair, the great veins stood out on his neck like cords, and heseemed to grasp at his throat as if choking! In that awfulmoment he tasted the bitterness of death. I would not haverecognized him as the man at whose table I ate, three yearsbefore, on the Colorado. It was KUngensmith whose confession, sworn to beforea judge in Nevada, had first given a complete history of the AND CRIMES OF MORMONI8M. 183 massacre. The defense attempted to prove the old slander, in-vented in 1859, to deceive Judge Cradlebaugh, that the emi-grants had poisoned a spring near Corn Creek, and then t
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