The Life of John Taylor: Third President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day SaintsRoberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry)
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The Life of John Taylor: Third President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Roberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry)
Latter Day Saint churches; Taylor, John, 1808-1887
"About seven a. m. deputies came to our house and demanded admittance.
I asked them to wait until we got dressed, and we would let them in.
Deputy Gleason said he would not wait, and raised the window and got
partly through by the time we opened the door, when he drew himself
back and came in through the door. He then went into the bedroom; one
of the young ladies had got under the bed, from which Gleason pulled
the bedding and ordered the young lady to come out. This she did, and
ran into the other room, where she was met by Thompson. I asked Gleason
why he pulled the bedding from the bed, and he answered, 'By God! I
found Watson in the same kind of a place.' He then said he thought
Easton was concealed in a small compass, and that he expected to find
him in a similar place, and was going to get him before he left."
Miss Morris, of the same place, says:
"Deputy Gleason came to my bed and pulled the clothing off me, asking
if there was any one in bed with me. He then went to the fireplace
and pulled a sack of straw from there and looked up the chimney. One
of them next pulled up a piece of carpet, when Gleason asked Thompson
if there was anyone under there. Thompson said 'No,' and Gleason
exclaimed, 'G--d d--it, we will look, any way.' They also looked in
cupboards, boxes, trunks, etc., and a small tea chest, but threw
nothing out."
Deputy Thompson, referred to in the above, is the man who, a few months
afterwards, December 16th, 1886, killed Edward M. Dalton at Parowan
by shooting him down in the street under the plea that Dalton was
trying to escape arrest for unlawful cohabitation. The testimony of
eye witnesses to the whole transaction, however, does not bear out the
claims of the man upon whose hands will be found innocent blood when he
shall stand before that tribunal where there is no shuffling--where the
action will be seen in its true light--where the guilty man himself,
even in the teeth and forehead of his offending, must give in the
evidence.
The following which occurred in Idaho is also from the aforesaid
Memorial:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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