. Mormonism unveiled; including the remarkable life and confessions of the late Mormon bishop . to spyout what was going on; for instance, the consecrating of thestock of their enemies, by the Saints, and driving it in at nightand butchering it, and distributing it among their Smith in his life-time said that a man who would stealfrom a Gentile, would steal from his brother if he could not stealfrom any one else; that he deprecated this petty thieving, andthat the Saints should wait until the proper time, and then stealback the whole State of Missouri and get their homes back wi
. Mormonism unveiled; including the remarkable life and confessions of the late Mormon bishop . to spyout what was going on; for instance, the consecrating of thestock of their enemies, by the Saints, and driving it in at nightand butchering it, and distributing it among their Smith in his life-time said that a man who would stealfrom a Gentile, would steal from his brother if he could not stealfrom any one else; that he deprecated this petty thieving, andthat the Saints should wait until the proper time, and then stealback the whole State of Missouri and get their homes back withinterest. I knew of several men who were put out of the way inthis manner, though I never saw any of them killed. Besidesthere were enough willing tools to do all this kind of dirty jobswithout me, though it was entrusted to the police to do, theybeing sworn to secrecy. If any of them was caught in a scrape,it was the duty of the rest to unite and swear him out. It wasclaimed that the Gentiles had no right to administer an have heard men say they would swear a house full of lies to. 5 «ft «5 oc o csp 0> •a e 0) x: LIFE OF JOHN D. LEE. 159 s one of the brethren. Whatever the police were ordered todij^ they were to do and ask no questions. Whether it wasri| it or wrong mattered not to them, they were responsible onlytrj their leaders, and they were amenable only to God. I was aconfidant among them, and they let me into the secret of all theydid, and they looked to me to speak a good word for them withBrigham, as they were ambitious to please him and obtain hisblessing. I knew that I was in their full confidence, and thecaptain of the police never asked me to do anything he knew Iwas averse to doing. Under Brigham Young, Hosea Stout wasChief of Police They showed me where they buried a man ina lot near the Masonic Hall. They said they got him tight andwere joking with him while Some men were digging his asked him to go with them into a pit of corn, sayin
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