Show young SOUNG IOU NG G 1 eth erh a T territory of utah y oto olo y beaver neaver er county oss Ss 1 in n tat tho the second J judicial udie 11 district C court our of the territory of utah I 1 I 1 I 1 jc t IV lins lint the Te people ac indictments i vs for murder JO john D lee lmh in H committed I 1 dame Isa isaacc lec 1 1 september s haight et at d 4 i aj bd 1 I 1 salt lake county ss george A smith haing having baing been 11 first rbt duly sworn 0 de deposes and says that he is aged nifty fifty eight year that he is no now and pud has been for 13 several everal months suffering from a seve severe re and dangerous illness ot ortho the head and lungs and that to attend the court at beaver in the presents condition of his health henith would ia ini i all probability end his life deponent further saith that her het had bad no military command during the year 1857 nor any other official i position except that of one of the twelve wei wel v apostles of the church of bf jesus christ of sainta deponent further saith th that athe atho he n never ev er in thereat the 1 1857 7 at parowan carowan or elsewhere atte attended n d 1 I a council where wm H dame darne isaac Cs ci haitht haight 1 or others were presen tto disc dise discuss u ss any men med measures for attacking or any manner injuring an i enn eon gran grant brant train from arkansas or any other othen place lace which is ii alleged to have been destroyed at the adoun tain meadows in september 1857 1657 deponent further saith that he lid never heard or knew anything of otia id s train of emigrants which he learn learns ed afterwards by rumor was fromia arkansas until he met aid faid i emil emi i grant train at corn cora creek on his way north to salt lake city on or about the day of august at corn greek creek deponent further saith arith that he encamped with jabob jacob hamblin philo T barnsworth farnsworth Farnsw silas S smith and elisha hoop hoipo ay iy and there for the first tindee time hi he learned of the existence of said sald emi 4 grant train and i ney to california deponent t further saith that having langbeen been absent from the territory for fora a year previous he returned in the summer of 1857 and went south to visit his hia family at parowan carowan Pa rowan and xo llo look after some property he had bad there and also v visit mtv miu his hid friends and for no other purpose and that en on leaving salt lake city he had no knowledge whatsoever of the exist ence of said emigrant train nor nor non did he acquire any until as ds before beford ul stated I 1 ia I 1 f deponent fu further saith that thay as hs b an elde elder r in tle the church 7 christ of latter day saints be lio preached several times on his hia way south and also on his hia rett return Irn 1 and tried to impress upon the min minds as bi of li the people the necessity of great deat care as to their thein grain crops as all i the crops had been shOrt for several seve r d I 1 fa years previous to 1857 and many matiy of the people wt were re reduced to actual want and were suffering ring for the ithel necessaries of life deponent further baith balth ith that he advised the people to furnish all ali 1 emigrant companies passing pasing 1 through the territory with what they might actually need for bread 1 5 t stuffs for the support of themselves and families while passing through tho the territory and also aiso also almo advised the lt people net not to feed their grain to their own stock nor feell it to the emigrants for that purpose deponent further saith that lie ho never heard of or knew of any attack upon said emigrant train trainan un til some time after his return to salt sait lake city and that thal weilu i near fort Brid bridger gir gin lie he heaed for thic thir first time that the indians hild had ma massacred sacred an emigre nt xit company at ath n mountain meadows j Depo deponent nent neut further saith that llo lip never at any time either before dr after that massacre was P za thereto that he never directly or indirectly aldemi abetted or assisted in its perpetration or had any knowle knowledge dge thereof except by hear say that he nev never e r knew anything tr of the distribution of the property taken there except by hearsay hearin a as 1 aro afo reald deponent Depo nent neut further aurther raith rauth faulx saulx that all cliar cilar charges changes and statements ascertain ing to him contrary to thet the forego 11 11 ing ng are false and untrue subscribed and sworn to belore bedore before i me this dakof day dax of july A D 1875 Signe df 1 1 i laki taki ta I 1 I 1 I 1 A biffi taft 1 av SO f seal sl I 1 W ay iy M CIki cini tbt TUT hi nata 1 i ji 1 I rn let lej x |