The New York Herald Newspaper, November 24, 1874, Page 4

4 “UTAH. Capture of Lee, the Mountain | Meadows Chieftain. Petalls of the Awful Massacre | of 1857. THE PROPHET’S DANGEROUS POWER, Latter-Day Fanatics Thirsting for Blood. CRUMBLING OF MORMON INSTITUTIONS. Mecay and Final Fall of the | “Mormon Empire.” LEE’S CASE A TEST QUESTION, BaLT Lake City, Nov. 14, 1874. The readers of the HenaLp of this date were floubtless apprised by telegraph of the arrest of & Mormon named Joon D, Lee for bis prominent participation in the horrible mas- pacre of Arkansas immigrants by Mormons tn the disguise of Indians, at a place called Mountain Meadows, in the year 1857. Your corre- spondent is enabled to furnisu further particulars of the massacre and the arrest of Lee, and pre. Pare the public mind for some startling develop- ments that are likely to ensue /rom Lee’s arrest. In she meantime it may not be aninteresting to recapitulate more in detail than heretofore, even to the danger of some little retteration, the cir- cumstances attending the borribie butchery, the day ofretrivution on account of which seems to be rapidly approaching. A little over seventeen years ago, about 350 miles soutn of this city, there occurred one of tne most atrocious deeds known in modern history— “The Mountain Meadows Massacre’—when 120 men, women and children were slaugntered in cold blood. bs So thoroughly drilled have been the Mormons to be silent upon everything uf moment that trapspires in the Territory, tf that thing should happen to be to the disadvantage of the Church, that it was some months belore the people of the northern settiements knew tuat such @ terrible deed had been perpetrated in the south, and then they only heard of it as tne bloody work of the indians. At the time of this occurrence there were not over a dozen Gentiles in the Territory, and these Gentiles were hastening “to America’—a few going eastward by the way of Fort Bridger, and the others running the gaumtiet through the In- dian country to reach the Pacific coast. Brigham Young was then Governor of the Terri- tory, and as he had learned that a body of United | States troops, under the command of General | Harney, was crossing the plains, escorting to Utah a new Governor and new federal judges and other federal officers, Brigham thought proper to issue @ proclamation forbidding these troops to enter the Territory, and, being ex-oficlo comman- der-in-chief of the militia, lie calied the citizens to arms, put the Territory under martial law and commenced preparations for a contest with the Dationai government. Ctan wasin this eituation when the immigrants of whom | write entered the Territory on their Way to California. They num- fered in ail about 149 persona; one-third of them were from Missouri and the others were irom Arkansas. chiefly ali meu, an adventurous, rough crowd, en route to the “diggins;" highly respectabie class of homes in Southern California. Tue Arkansas com- pany had travelled across the plains ahead of the Missouri company, and desiguedly kept some dis- tance from them on account of their boisterous and coarse language; but as both companies pro- ceeded south of this cliy they began to feel that they Were in an enemy’s country and they joined together for mutuai aid and protection. There can be * NO PALLIATION OF THE MASSACRE. Bad all the offences of the immigrants been a thou sand times more than what ts charged to them Btli there couid be BO defence for the treachery ana butchery that followed. The crime is 80 damnable that no man of soul or heart can hear of it and think of it without bis blood warming against the murderers. I know of nothing tn history that makes my biood boil so quickly as the mention of the Mountain Meadows massacre. those dreadiul incidents in tiie that comes home to every ove who has ever crossed the plains and been exposed to attack, and the more that any One thinks of the bloody deed the more is there an anxiety to see the juli measnre of justice meted Out to the guilty. No man desires more than Ido to witness the just punisument of the really cul- pabie, but, as a corresponuent whose duty it is to be the truthiui and reilable historian of eurrent history, | deem it my duty to the people here to place before the nation a falthiul statement of facta relating to the condition of the Territory at the time of the occurrence, now that the chief actor in the bloody tragedy, JOHN D. LEE, HAS BEEN CAPTURED, and will assuredly be tried for his part in the mas- sacre, and during ols ‘orthcoming trial the proba- bilities are that otvers may be implicated and dound equally guilty. It may be offensive to the Mormon people for me to write that 1m 1857, the period at which the mas sacre occurred, Utah Territory was littie better than a huge Junatic asylum; but that I cannot heip Here and there a suber, cool and calculating brother might be met with, but the very virtues I pame were when great crimes in the estimation of the mass of the people, who had, from a variety of | circumstances, been worked up to the highest de- gree of fanatical excitement. For many years the Mormon prophets and ‘Bposties had been preaching and predicting about | the end of the world, and they had, with much kiodness to themseives, if not with much wisdom, elected that they were the iavored of the Lord, od (hat their pigmy of au organization, calied the | jormon Church, Was ip truti and in very deed | “the kingdom of God,” and that ail other govern- ments of kingdoms and empires were but usurpa- tions that were destined to speedily come to grief. The intelligent reader will, Do douot, remember that the Mormons were not the first who enver- tained these ideas, though they have, uniortu- pately, been the first organtzation tn America to make themselves disagreeavly prominent in th Specialty, and now they must suger the consi quences of their temerity. Brigham Young, \ leader, an (gnorant, superstitious fanatic, who h wo ne dictated and controiled everything here, Be ROLED, UNCHALLENGED, WITH AN RON HAND, Bis own people, thought that there was nothing to Prevent lim from coping with the United States, Gud be resoived (hat ne should be sovereign and bid defiance to ail eartnly power. His sermons, Or “discourses,” as they are termed, were, for & few years preceding thts tim treme against the Gentiles;’ be loatned the government of the United States and bated every One Who had @ loyal sentiment tor the Kepub- To Be jor the Kep' at Gposties who could cutse most the Gentiles aud heap upon them every op- robrium that tongue could utter were 4 bis udgment the Most biessed i aud t flavored of the Lord. vanes tus mate fie had encouraged the most rything tha! was not Mormon, and the whole pie of Utah were in that precise men - on at the time of ree THE MOUNTAIN MEADOWS MASSACRE, The Mormon poets had been singing such sentl- pents as these:— ‘Thy deliverance 1s ni d the , thy oppressors shall die Aug Gentiles shall bow ‘weath thy rod, 4 om eneay kibler Harney is on the way, Te Mor Pande ' Now (sag come: the truth [ul ten, _ one bore eran iar 2s The Missourians were | the Arkansans were a | immigrants, seeking | It is one of | bitter tn the ex- | Vindictive feelings that coulc ba cherished against | e NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, I874.~TRIPLE SHEET. the Nauvoo Mmatracted the Mormon militia ‘Wuo went out to meet the United States troops to BURN UP THR WHOLE COUNTRY and wrap them in Names, and to do everything to prevent the national soldieré from advancing upon Salt Lake oi, and this mild instruction be very piously with @ “God bless you and e's, you success. Your brother in Christ, Daniel . Wells.” This was the spirit of the Mormons in the latter part of 1857, They looked upon thé gov- ernment of the United Stutes as “a man-made government,” and their own aifair out here was a Divine organization. Taey bad for years expected @ bioouy Collision between “the kingdom,” ander Brigham Young, and the Republic, under any un- fortunate who at that fort period 6uould have attained to the chalrof Washington. When these immigrants crossed the plains they were only @ few weeks alead or the “cursed Troops”? that were “coming up against Zion.” The men trom Missourl were very offensive to tne Mormons. The very name of Missouri Is an il sound tn the ears of the Salurs. Their Orst prophet had tried to establish in that State the Latter-Day Zion and the Missourians wouldo’s have tt. As they passed through the Mormon towns and set- | Vements some of them very unwisely and unpe- cessariiy boasted that they had driven out the Mormons from that State, and that they had aiso | taken part in the murder of *Joe Smith’? in Ili- nois. All this might nave been Idie braggaaocio, but itindamed the Mortons, and as the immigrants travelled south they feit that there was an infiu- ence against them, and the Mormons would have no imtercourse with them and would seli them nothing. The Missourlans Were mischievous when they began their ribald abuse, and, as the Mor- mons ostracized them, THEY BECAME FURIOUS AND DESPERATE. vis suid that toey didevery thing they could to agcravate the Mormon settlers by swearing a, and raging ugainst their leaders; and where they haa | opportunity tney Killed their chickens and appro- | priated them to their own use. In this way they | travelled south of this city, wereasiog in wrach and finding increasing opposition, 1t 1s charged by the Moymons that the immigrants poisoned a spring by the Wayside ; that cattle drank the water | and died; that Indians eat the carcasses of the | catue and also died; and that that was the cause } aud commencement of active hostilities against the immigrants, Gentiles do nut believe a word of this, but [ give it as the Mormon Story of the start- img point of the massacre. It is extremely un- | pleasanc to refuse credence to any defence for @ ad action, especially when the deisnce needs tt badiy; but I confess to ucter scepticism on the poi- soulbg of the spring. An ungodiy writer, with no fear of judgment before iis eyes, many years go, said that le had visited the said spring, aud What it would have taken | A BARREL OP ARSENIO to bave done mischie to anytuing, man or beast, uniess the water had been drunk immediately after ihe spring had been poisoned, tor the vol- Ume Of water Was so large and rapid that no deie- terious matter could remain there. Again, It was not iikely that the immigrants would transport with them any such amount of poison, Absurd ag All this may seem, this was the story of the Mor. mon Tabernacle jor a dozen years and more. A3 the immigrants were leaving the Mormon settlements to travel westward, it was thei that tue Indiana, according to Mormon statements, re- | solved on their deadly work. Bovh companies from Missour; and Arkaosas were then traveling | together lor safety, and they camped tozeiner about the 17th of september at a spring in Moun- tain Meadows. Here, tie Mormons aay, the In- dians began weir attack alone and unaided. The | Immigrants “Immediately jortified themselves by | throwing up earth around thelr wagon wheels | and showing ! A DETERMINATION TO FIGHT IT OUT. Imtght go on reluting What this one says and what the other one says, but, in coming to the facts, the reader can picture to bimseli about filty | Wagons tormed into a circle, witum whicu there were abuut 140 men, Women and chilaren, sur- rounded, as they supposed, by savage indians, Toe immigrants knew not their position. They were strangers, they were ignorant of the coun- try or the people, and they could only fight. For several days they fought bravely, but taey bad no | water within their camp, some brave men had dared to go to the spring outside of their wagon circle @ud had been shot down, Two litte girls had been seat for waser, and ¥ | THE INHUMAN BUTOBLRS could not respect their innocence and they fell in death. it was clear to the immigrants tuat they were doomed, 1 might goop and relate now day | after day they fought, aud how night after night was sleepless, but no pen can truly picture taut terribie scene. At length, alter a four days’ siege, 8 Wagon was | seen advancing towards the besieged, over which was Coating a fag of truce borne by white men. The immigrants hailed i$ with joy and with thauk- fulness to God, They could think only of gratitude for deliverance. The culef maa in that wagon was Joun D, Lee, a major of @ regiment of militia, an Indian agent under Brigham Young and an eider { 3 the Church of Jesus Curist of Latter Day Saints. e was e HAILED WITH JOY AS A DELIVERER. The tmmigrants could rusi to the spring and assuage their parched ilps; husbands and wives pressed to each other their beating bosoms, and the little lnnocents Who Nad cried with fear and terror, leaped With joy and clung to their darling parents as if thelr joy was more a momentary fancy than a lasting reality. ‘That camp extibited ne expression—gratitude to God. Hearts ull anu tongues Were speechless. t leng'n Lee aud mis bretnren persuaded che immigrants to give up their arms and to go to the hearest settlement tor safety, aud they agreed to the proposition. ‘The women and children went together without | escort In advance of the men; the latter were guarded by the Mormon militia, When about a mule and @ ball from camp THE SIGNAL WAS GIVEN by Lee, and in an instant the Mormons snot down the men and the Indians slaughtered the women and cnildren—all but seventeen cuiidreu of tender e | ‘Were not these facts beyond all possible doubt | I would not write them; butif they cost me my lile I will proclaim them and demand o! the nation retribution. Every man in the Gnited States wno realizes his obligation to wife aud child suould demand investigation. | For seventeen years upon this Lee public con- demnation has fallen, Otber names have becn associated with his in that atrocious crime, but his name has always been uppermost, and there has been @ longing desire to reach him and wreak Vengeance on him for this awiul deed. Was he the guilty miscreant from choice, or was he but the tool of others? has always been the question, and now that .act has got to be settled. Lee has been under the ban and las kept away from civvization ior a dozen years; but a jew days ago he was captured, Very unexpectedly to uim, | and with this capture is revived the whole story of the Mountain Meadows massacre and the prob- ability of now reaching the enus of justice. Lee ig.@ much married man; te has bad at one time aud another eighteen wives. For saiety he thought fit to seex stieler @ few miles south of the territorial boundary line on the Pah-ria River, | within the Territory of Arizona. ‘here he bad eo English wife—a brave, daring woman, Who seemed | to be as desperate as himself, His cabin was like \ an arsenal, well provided with every kind of wea- pon of warfare. He was determined uever to be taken alive in that piace; but he thougnt proper | to come ipto the settiements north to visit some Other portions of is lamily, and there he was captared. it is neediess to detail how a United States deputy marsiai held a pistol and threatened to fire, and how somebody eise did sometning else. Lee was captured and is now in Beaver | Jail under a strong guard. He was indicted avout Bix weeks ago, and Will be tried lor this massacre in about three weeks. Had Brignam Young or any of the great lignts of the Mormon Churcn anything todo with it? That is the great ques- | thon that excites everybody here. Some rumors | would indicate that Lee will make a clean breast | of it; others are as positive to tue contrary. It Matters not whether he is free or reserved, it ts | now certain that the whole mystery will be unravelled, ana somebody, and few others, will be hang, shot or decapitated, whicheyer tpey ma, preter, and with the anal ‘setiling of the Mountail | Meadows massacre the backbone of Danttism will be broken. Once that the desperadves and fanatics in Utah learn that murder will be ferret | ed out and punished the Territory will be blessed | ud prospered, and another lesson will be taugnt | ta history that the world is growing and the | | barbarism of the past 18 no justification for bar+ barism im the present, | | THAT THIS AMREST OF LEE WILL PROVE A TEST QUESTION in regard to Mormon supremacy tn the midway trausit between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts | will soon become apparent by the action of she United States courts. in reviewing the whole matier your readera should be steadily reminded tbat the massacre occurred while Brigham Young Was eXercising the junctions of Governor of \he Territory of Utah, under appointment from the President of the United States, James Buchanan; nd as evidence going to show the Propnet’s com. Plication with the perpetratora of the bloody | a it may be stated aa an historical tact | at | ONE OF THE CARRIAGES belonging to the murdered iminigrants was taken to Sait Lake City and Bigham Young used it as his own private venicie for a number of years. | Furthermore, a pianoforte which the immigrants | Were taking across the Plains was found in Young's nouse, and may be there still, it has not been otherwise disposed of, it may be bere asked Wuat las become of tne | LARGE 8UM OF MONEY taken from the immigrant train, amounting, as your correspondent has previously stated, to $120,000 In god? Has any of this money veen re- | turned to the surviving Children of the victims of the butchery or to their surviving reiatives left behind them in Arkansas / | MORE EVIDENCE. | 1t isa point of interest to state thatin 1860, while Mr, Wiiliam H. Rogers was acting as Indian agent and stationed at Salt Lake City, the Mormons sur- rounded Ms uouse at the dead of night and shot forty balls into the building, at toe same time | throwing stones against it, endeavoring, to all a pearances, to assassinate wim, kuowimg buat be possessed MUCH IMPORTANT EVIDENCE in regard to the massacre. Mr. Rogers has been absent in South America for a namber of years. At present he 1s living in Loudon county, Virginia. The United States authorities would act wiseiy d further the ends of public justice by securing | at (he earilest practicabie period the testimony of Mr. Rog in relation to the butchery at Moun- tain Meadows, The same authorities should also remember that, aa no Mormon can be CONVICTED OF CRIME or any offence by @ jury composed entirely of Mor- mons, that some other means should be resorted Of | W lor the Durnase af ovlaimiug & lair and proper fawn | already | this vexed Mormon question, and espectall) | @ view to the vindication of the laws of the | salvation. | he 1s hinting at Isaac ©, Haight or William BL ‘| when final action Will be takeu In regard to the le; investigation in the matter. If it thereupon 1 Biocns that the leaders of the Mormon Couren were gutity of participation in Or connived at the murder oi the wnmi nig they should uncoubt- ediy be punished to fulest extent an with the utmost mgor of the law. The United States Marshal in Utan has au- thority to empanel a jury for the trial of Lee and others, and it is to be hoped and expected that he will select competent and unprejudiced men, such as Will ao justice © ali par There bave un- | doubtedly been THE ROMANCE OF TRAVEL. $128,000,000 a ¥: | Jonnson, is a0 oficial who occupies a room in the Treasury Department at Washington, and from Ume to time compties many curious and elaborate MANY OTHER MURDERS statistical reports concerning exports and im- and outrages committed by Mormons tn Utah | ports, and many other things more or less re- Within the jaat twenty Yours that have never been | movely connected therewith. He is no dry stati- o es 4 ishment. We inigne fur example, "recall, the eit: clan who takes bis figures as given facts, and cumstances Of the adds, maltiplies, or subtracts wiin mechanical MURDER OF MR. ROBINSON, precision and monotony. The last report of all who was deliberately shot down in the streets of | Sait Lake City about four years since, it was well | the series with which Congress wil! shortly be known by iederal oficers that the deed wat perpe- | deluged where one would expect to find the wae ey Pym oe Ane Poti ld nea graces of rhetoric and the charm of poetic Inven- de, es een conv Or punished for the crime. Indeed, it would baye ton i8 that of the Commissioner of Customs, Macaulay made the barren wastes of history bios- som like arose tree, He threw around tne dry record of political events the glamour of ro- been useless for the !ederal authorities to have made arrests, for the reason, as we have alread: stated, nO Mvrimon could be convicted by a Mor- | mon jury. | LU the testimony of the Indians can be relied | mance that led the fancy captive and Upon it can be abundantly proven that } vivifed the duin of chronology. Follow- ry lyin De it } ing bis example at ® respectful distance in the massacre of the immigrants and, It is alleged, the ravishment of three young ladies, a deed of horror that was sabiimated by the cutting of the | poor Victims’ throats by the savage allied of the Mormons. The manner in which tne bodies of | these unsortunate people were leit by the Mor- mons to be “ATEN BY WOLVES AND COYOTES has already been described. Butit isa fact that should not be disregarded or lost sight of when- ever a thorough legal investigation into all the circumstances of the outchery takes place. In regard to the report that Lee will MAKE A CONFESSION, it may be remarked that one of his wives post. | uve avers that Lee will say nothing that will convict or implicate the Prophet; that he would suifer death before doing so. Leé Claims to bea Telative of the Lees 0: Virginia, although Northern born, but his bloody deeds bear no resembiance to | the characteristics of that chivairic Virginia lamily. THS TRIAL OF LEE AND OTHERS will be prosecuted &3 s00n as proper evidence can be accumulated, which ts somewhat difficult, as may well be imagined, 10 tt jand ofthe Latter Vay Saints, Moreover, some important witnesses are out or the Territory, and it will require time to pro- cure their atrendance, The relatives of the putch- ered people, living in Arkansas and Missouri, will the Commissioner of Oustoms has managed, by Jorce of a fervid imagination, to rescue from the oblivion into Which most oficial documents fall his annual report to the Secretary of the Treasury jor the present year. The first few figures he pro- duces make the reader pause and meditate sev- eral minutes, ‘It is estimated,” he says, “that the American tourists returning from Europe dur- ing the year ending June 30, 1873, numbered 86,830, and each person brought on the average seven trunks, filled with dutiable goods, claimed to be personal luggage, not dutiable. We have thus an aggrogate of 257,810 trunks, filled with articles claimed a8 duty free, representing, on @ valuation of $500 for each trunk, the enormous sum of $123,905,000.% What food for reflection! Was ever government so detrauded since the dawn of civilization and of custum houses? H&RALD reporter, justly indignant at such wholesale swindiing of & paternal government, called yesterday upon Mr, Ogaen, Auditor of tne be and overcome us like a summer cloud without give valuaole testimony im the case, and they our special wonder.” should proceed at once to embody it in some prac- Mr. Ogden put on his glasses, leaned back in his ticable form, by affidavits, or otherwise, and | chair, and began slowly to read and repeat these forward it tothe tederal authorities in Utah. | lipes of the report given above, “Each person DOOM OF MOKMONDOM. The crumbling institutions of tue Mormons tndi- cace that the period of the downiall of the Saints ts atoand, Their large Co-operative Mercantie Association (of which ex-delegate to Congress, Hooper, is the managing mead) is breaking up. Their leaders, their bishops aud other oniel people are becoming decrepit and senile. We very rarely hear ofa | RePORTER-.Oh, yes, several times. PROMISING SCION AUDITOR—How Many trunks did you usually of a Mormon household, The old men passing | pring back ? away and no young ones to take their places 1ti8 = _RepoRTER—Sometimes one, eometimes none at natural that their union and strength as a peuple brought on the average 6even trunks—seven trunks," he cried again, until pis face grew iong and framed itself into a note of exclamation. “Representing,” he continued aiter a pause, “a valuation 0; $000 each trunk.” Then the Auditor laiddown the paper, and, looking up at tue reporter, asked, “Were you ever in Europe?” must give way and finally fall to pieces. The AUDITOR—Would you average your trunk at any | tenure of their religious 1anaticism irail, the time on a valuation of $500, ranks of tie zealots being chiefly sup} lied from REPORTER—Well, yes; but I had no objection to European and other foreign sources, and not com- | geil it to & iriend ior $5, Were you ever in Europe mg from a natural, sound, Dative growth. The youraeli, Mr. Auditor ? great masses of the Mormon people are honest, and ‘Aub(roR—Once only. would gladly throw off the galling yoke o/ slavish REPORTER—And you brought back seven trunks, servitude to tne few unprincipled men who, for | worta $500 Soince yi their Own personal and sordid money-makingends | Aypiror—One carpet bag and $7 would be and aims, rnie them. Another cause of the decline nearer the murk. and fallo the so-calied “Mormon empire” exists | ePpoRTER—What, then, does this report mean? in the diverse and confilcting | Is iva mere flash of fancy on the part of the Com- CLAIMS TO ESTATES mussioner, or 18 the governinent really robbed and all other rroperty, created by thenumerous anuually of auch a vast amount. Custom House, and asked him could ‘such things | progeny reaching the age of manhood and spring- AUDITOR (reading)—“it 18 well Known,’ he ing .rom tbe same paternal stock. A Dew genera gays, “that much of this baggage 1s, 1p reality, 1n- tion has grown up since Mormonism Was founded | tenged to be put on the market as merchandise, in the mountains and wtldernesses of Utah, aud gnd g fil other portions of it are brought over for where there are a score or more of sons and heirs third parties, who have remained at home.” Now, | in the same famuy reaching the age ofindepend- there ig some truth in what he says about mer: | ence and sell-responsibility almost simultaneously cnandise being SMugeled tn occasionally through there must necessarily exist more or less confu- tne medium of private trunks, but that’s a baga- | sion, jealousy and acrimony among tnem. Of! this . telie to the enormous sum given here. Why, hall , jJact We have daily evidence here in Utah, Many the passengers returning trom Europe seldom | of the sons aud daughters of the Mrst wives are | have more to spare tian the price of thelr passage, | - | and in hundred of cases a half empty trunk, a cigar \ CLAIMING SUPREMACY | case, @ paper-collar box and an umbrella consti: | in the division of property, leaving the offspring | tute the entire travelling stock of the American of the other wives unprovided for. It may ve tourist. here mentioned, as a matter of wonderment, how REPORTER—Are English paper collars dutiable ? peopie outside of Utau and ouiside of the Mor- AubiIroR—Decidedly. But as a passenger sel- mon Church can tolerate the entrance into their | qom lands with any large stock of ciean paper best sowety of the | collars tne revenue is sinall in that direction. THIRD OR FOURTH WIFR | “REPORTER—Have you never heard of a passen- ofa Mormon saint, who herself cannot be re- | ger lauding wit seven trunks ? garded by the conventionalities of respectable | ~ AupiToR—Yes, and seventy-seven trunks; but Eastern lle as exactly the peer of the worthy | that’s about every new moon. If every passenger matrons and chaste maidens who adorn the social janded with seven trunks it Would take a tuou- and domestic Circles of the East. But the state gand Custom House officers to look after tuem, of Ulings we have described cannot be expecied ‘he report jurtuer says that a law ought to be | long to endure 10 any community, no matter how | pa.sed limiting the value to be brought in by any deeply rooted and inflexible the power Of 0 Im- one passenger (0 a reasonable sum, and requiring | pure and unholy reigious fanaticism may be. ali articles of baggage to be entered on the <ecla- Hence it may be conficently predicted that Mor- ration of the passenger, and the duties thereon monism, with its “twin relic of barvarism,” to qetermined vy the proper officer, instead of leav- give the old phrase a new reading, | ing ail to be disposed of by the passenger on his POLYGAMY | mere asseveration. will be swept from the American Continent within RerokTER—Don't you approve of that sugges- the next decade, tion? THE DUTY OF CONGRESS. AvDITOR—No occasion for the suggestion. It ts It ig earnestly desired and expected that at the notso that the matter 1s left tothe mere assevera- approaching session of Congress some decisive tion of the passenger. Alter the passenger has de- measures will be taken toward the settlement of | clarea asto tbe number of pieces and contents of with | his baggage the officer makes a search, and any- nited | ting dutiaole found is held jor payment. In the States and of humanity generally in the Territory now terrorized over by the Mormon despotism. | | | | limiting the amount a passenger might bring into portiree of duty was left out by some mistake, and now the amount is unlimited, RgrORTER—Don’t you suppose, a8 most of our tourists cravel over Europe, tbat seven trunks ta & small estimate ot what each one brings back ? AvbDITOR—Weil, when 1 was in Kurope, I thought 411 brought myself hack I’d be doing very weil, felt, like Caesar, that if my tmpedimenta was con- sumed, I should be all the easier, Men want as few trunks as possivie in travelling. Unless they are drummers or collectors for museums aud me- mageries they preter just one handy vatise, EPORTER—Then we may conclude the Commis- sioner was never across to Europe and kaows nothing about how the thing is done? AUDITOR— Perhaps he thinks no American can goto Europe without bringing back enough to start @ dry goods store or a trunk shop? REPORTER—Just 80. GOod morning. DEATH FROM SUFFOCATION. Coroner’s Investigation of the Fire and Low of Life in Thirty-Eighth Street. The Prisoner Lee’s Life in Jail—-The Husband, Eighteen Wives and Sixty- two Children. {Correspondence of the Salt Lake Tribune from Beaver, Utah.) John D, Lee is still the excitement of Beaver, When brought out of jail yesterday to bave his Picture taken he appeared cheerful and was quite talkative. His wie Rachel is still with him. Her fiery eyes show fight, and she is said to be skilled in the use of firearms. She sat with her husband yesterday for their picture, and, as the photog- | rapher, Mr, Suttericy, intends sending copies to Calijornia and the East, the public will, no doubt, ere long be gratified with the pictures of the in- teresting pair. Mrs. Lee is rendered historic by her Jong relationship with the mon- ster sne calls ber husband. She was Lee’s wife at the time of tne massacre, and no doubt wore tne clothing taken irom the bodies Of the murdered women. She says she couid kill, if it were necessary, and Lee regarded her a@ sale companion among the Nuvajoes, Wien Lee was corralied at Panguitch she was the first of his iriends to seize a Weapon, and says, i! there had quest inthe cases of Margaret Whalen, filty-five years of age, and William Roach, nine years of Age, who were suffocated at the fire which occur- beeu any fighting, she would have snot t » plates Norsbal, ¢ note ae | rea at No. 318 East Thirty-eighth street, on the af pei Dd. es pcg facie paren | ternoon of the 14th inst., and also apon the body ndpoist, i$ an animal, His forehead is villai- e nously low and receding; no top head at all, such | Of James Reilly, about thirty-eight years of age, as a good, conscientious man 1s supposed to have; | Who died from injuries received in falling out of @ tnird story window of the same building. wide between the ears, with an overoalancing | Subdjoined will be found a brief synopsis of the Weight In the cerebellum. His physique is first class, mot large, bat muscular and ow er- jul, affordin perfect health at the ie ‘of | evidence, and it will be observed by the testi- Sixty-two. is life, aside {rom the terrible mas- | mony of Assistant Fire Marshal Hill that the Sacre of which he was undoubtedty the leader and com'vander, is one of strange interest, aud out- side of the Mormon Church has no parallel in America. His pulygamic career was crowned With eighteen Wives and Sixty-two children, fifty of whom are still living. ‘Wo of the wives were sealed to him by the Prophet Brigham since the loss of life was occasioned by @ child four years of age kindling a fire among some shavings and dry wood in a shed under the stairway on the outside Of the building. Tne day was cold and the child kindled the fire for the purpose of warming han- massacre. He expresses himsel! anxious to tell | self. Wwhathe nows about te massacre and to expose John J. Eagan, assistant foreman of Engine the Feo dott parties, In his own words, he | Company No. 21, deposed that on the afternvon of | wants the saddle put on the rignt horse; that he | the occurreace his company was called to the fre has worn it wrongiully jor seventeen years, Many | in Thirty-eighth street; found the flames issuing think that Brigham Young ‘or George | from the windows and doors; don’t know how the A. Smith is m for it. Lee ts too ‘od | fire originated; saw the bodies removed alter the ‘@ bird for chaf, and, besides, is exceed. | fire was put out. ingly superstitious and could not entertain the idea of doing and saying anything that would compromise the priesthood, to whom he looks for Your correspondent 18 convincea that Charles F, Hill, Assistant Fire Marshal, deposed that he had made an tavestigation ag to the origin had kindied a fire among some shavings and kin- ahing wood under the stairway on the outside of Dame. Haight has fied, but Dame stands ground with as good grace as is possible under the circumstances. The brethren fight sny of the 1 Bue, out, when forced to an expression, approve the arrest and condemp Lee as 4 murderer. With ali due allowance jor the superstition of the Mor- mon people tt 1#@ manifest that a very large ma- Jority of them in these southern counties are giad of Lee's arrest and are anxious to see the guilly Parties brought to justice, the butiding was an old tumble-down one; thinks rear, John S, Fisher, connected with the Fire Depart- Ment, testified that after the fire he found tue woman and child suffocated; the fire was of suort duration, it being put outin ten minutes alter breaking out; there were several ladaers n' and thinka if the men present nad had presence of mind, Mr. Reilly mignt have been saved. John Dunphy, living to the rear oi the burned building, deposed that he saw James Reilly hanging from a rear window of the buiiding then on ire, and saw him ali; thinks Mr. Reilly might have A WARNING TO PRISON OFFICIALS On Saturday last a German named Hugo Schelk log called at the Essex Market Prison (osee @ friend who was locked up, and the messenger, Frank White, got permission {rom the keeper to allow Scheliog’s friend to see him at the iron grate the window, Richard Torley deposed that he saw Mrs. Reilly jump from the third story window and saw Mr. Reilly fai! or jump: from the same window; saw an hour before the fire, aud | dol | deceased (Reilly) ing. Mr. Schellog gave White @ dollar for nis | don’t know now the fre originated; Reilly was in trouble, the money being received with the knowl | the it Of drinking to excess; some oi the in- Cdge of the keener, Sudsequentiy Scheliog, WHO MAB | mates escaped salely from Lue Dullding alter the been Dut a short time in the country and does pot Bpeak English, reported the occurrence to Commase sioner Lausbeer, WhO yesterday investigated the case and found that White and the keeper ac knowiedged the transaction, alleging in tueir de fence that it was customary for messengers to be paid. White states that he had gone on three di ferent errands Saturday morning jor Scuellog’ {riend and that the money scarcely paid hun tor his troupie, Commissioner Latmbeer wili lay the case be.ore the Commissioners of Charities and Correction at the next meeting of the Bo. fire broke out. The witnesses were of the opinion that the police and Sremen arrived early at the Ore and did what they could to save life and preserve order. Deputy Coroner Leo testified that Mrs, Margaret Whalen and William Roach came to their deaths by suffocation, while James Reilly was killed by jumping ‘rom an upper window ol the purlding. ‘A verdict in accordance with Dr. Leo's testimony ‘was rendered by tne jury. THE WASHINGTON STREET MURDER, Principal and Witnesses Committed. George W. Murray, the man who stands charged with the murder of John Oarnacon by striking him on the head with a cartrung during a quarrel in front of the porter house, No, 685 Wasnington street, at alate nour on Saturday might, was yee terday brought before Coroner Woltman and committed to the Tombs, The Coroner aiso sent two officials, TRINITY OHUROH CHIMES, Mr. James E. Ayliffe announces the following programme on Trinity cuurch cojmes, on Thanks- Giving Day, Thursday, 26th inst., commencing at hail-past ten A. M. Service ateleven A. M, 1 Ringing the changes on eight bells, § pen Beer Hepey vay. four or five of the most important witnesses to Boies ion Beautiful Wort the House of Detention, ‘tho investigation has k Gitttam os, ot been named jor next Friday aiternoon, in vhe 6 L Now Believe. meantime the relatives have been granted a per- 1% Merrily Rung tha Trinity Bells, But to take toe bade hame for jnverment, Of the fre, aod learned that @ boy four years old | the building for the purpose of warmittg himself; | the occupants might have escaped through the | | the resiaence of a friend, aud the foliowing day | | codilying 01 the customs laws in 1870 the clause | | A SAD STORY. ‘The Commissioner of Qustoms, Mr. Henry & | Sickness, Poverty, Buin and Despair Crowded Into Two Years of a Girl's Lifs. HIVES TREATED AS SMALLPOX. Thrilling Narrative of a Young Emigrant and Her Debauchment by an Orderly on Blackwell’s Island. ARSHNIC AND AN ANTIDOTE. The Beauties and Abnses of Our Bountiful Charities and Correction. “#)iza Collins” arrived in New York from Ireland, for the fires time, some eighteen montns ago. AS soon as she felt sufficieniy restored from the effecta of the voyage and considered herself at ease in the country she presented some letters of introduction, with which she had been provided previous to her departure from Ireland. One of these letters was directed to a prominent clergy- man !n the city, and that she presented first. The clergyman gave her a second letter of introduc- tion to a lady of his acquaintance, and tlis lady procured Eliza a sitaation tn the family of one of her friends, She remained in this house for the best part ofa year. During the last few montns her health gave frequent evidence of the inroads of the climate upon her constitution. The family used every effort at thelr command to restore the girl to her foll and former vigor; but the taint she had | attracted was too strong and firmly rooted to be easily destroyed, and the attendant physician finally gave it as his advice that a voyage to Ire- land was absolutely necessary for the girl's resto- | ration, Her poverty at first made this proposition | a@ppear an impossibility; bat the head of the fam- fly took the matter in hand and soon solved the difficulty. He went to Mr. Lynch, who is a mem- | ber of the Board of Emigration, and made him ac quainted with the case, Mr. Lynch became at once interested, and set himself to work to ascer- tain what'could be done, After a day or two a passage, free of charge, to Ireland was obtained for Eliza, and she was sent for. When she appeared in the shipping office of the line that had offered transit for her to her native country the agent | was so struck with the giri’s delicate state of | health and her modest, retiring, lady-like appear- anve that he gave her @ cabin passage instead | of g steerage, 28 was the original intention. Ehza went home and remained among her people until she felt herself completely re-established. A spirit of independence natural to the cirl | prompted her to again try her fortune in a new country, and she started for America. She crossed the Atlantic the second time to Montreal ana came to New York through Canada. While in the steamboat going over Lake Champlain she caught cold, andon her arrival in the city she found that her estimate of her strength made at | home was too elevated a one. She was not nearly so well as she fancied. The eold brought on a kina of fever, and when she arrived in New York | @ lot of little red spots she calls hives appeared on her face. She spent the first nightin town at | went to THE HOSPITAL OF ST, FRANCIS XAVIER, in Fifth street, The physician in charge of the house having no room to give her advised the poor thing to go to the Bgard of Health. She followed the instructions and’ Went to the sanitary bureau of the department, in Mott street. There she was received by the policeman on duty at the | door and handed over to two inspectors, who, after an examination of the case, pronounced it smallpox. The hives on the girl’s face immediately Magnified into smailpox pustules in the eyes of the inspectors, and she was ordered to be sent to the Reception Hospital. She was driven in the usual covered wagon from the Mott sireet build- | ing to the Keception Hospital. There she was again examined, but not suMiciently close to discover that the girl was not tainted with the smallpox. She was ordered on the boat for transmission to the island. Tne red flag, the sign of pestilence, was promptly hoisted, and the poor girl, im good health, though weak, nervous and exhausted, was coaveyed to the home of loathsomeness, filtu and death. She pro- ; tested, entreated, begged, demanded to be set at 4 liberty, giving abundant proot she could not be | | tainted with auy contagious disease, but to no | ! | | | | avail, She was then in the hands of the authori- tes, and they meant to send her where they | liked. ‘fhe rematader of the es it ls better, perhaps, to let the girl tell herself, for it truthfully and grepbicaily, with am air of sin- | cerity that carries an unquestionable conviction. | it is @ sad and painiul story, inwo whch are brougnt such deeds of violence’as many persons | 1p a civilized, bumane community would deem im- possible to have occurred. A woman, young, alone, | poor and Sick, is the sole subject oO! all tae sor. | row, aNd enough lias been poured into her cup to make up the bi:terness of many lives, She was a | woman, too, 0! personal attraction—if that snouid | | have anything to do with it—beiore the tragic Yesterday morning Coroner Kessler held an in- | | the wrong-doer is punished, chivalry applauded, | been saved tfa ladder had been erecved against | p, | elements stepped into the drama of her days. She | was tenderly nurtured, of gentle ways, and bad te | modest negative reticence ol demeanor that calls | out the sympathy and respect of every man. | Tn the world’s estimate of men’s dealings and in the stories prepgres. for tue instruction and amusement of tue people irom times long merged into tue dim past, by their writers and dramatists, and virtue crowned in honor of its beauty, | ‘Turough many ages of the world’s history this fundamental basis of all equity has never been changed, It has always been looked at as the nec- essary structure apou which to build ail tales that were intended to appeal to the public heart, and they were reared from that pedesial because that Was the recognized law of right among all nations and people, taught and ignorant, In the story of the past two years of Eliza Coilins’ life all this is reversed, Tué villain escapes, with almost a jeer- ing smile upon his lips, the white garlands that should be crowning the suffering womin’s head trampled beneath bis feet into the dust. The men ; of standing, who ought to be on the side of the amucted and the wronged, BOLDLY DEMANDING JUSTICE and chastisement on ner wronger, are on the | Opposite side, oppressing the weak and carrying guilt aloft upon their shouiders. “When I found myself in the hospital,” said | Eliza, Isst evening, to a reporter of the | HERALD, “and knew [ could not get out until they chose to let me, I thought my heart would break, I was very weak aud sick and nervous, too, because | had been so long sick. I tried to tell the ductor as patiently as I could; | bat it was no use, id 1 must remain where | | waa for the present. Wel, I prayed a bit and tried to become reconciled to my awful siiuat.on, and im a while I grew calmer. The next day the Woman in the bed beside me—a terribly bad case of smallpox—died. I got more irightened at that. and again implored the doctor to let me go. | Theo they brought @& poor little doy all} bound up in vandages. I knew that to be the very worst kind of case, and I jumped | ut o! bed insisting on removal. The hives or spots, | whatever they were, had disappeared from my face then—there were only three or four of them | at first—and I was sent over to the fever pavil- fon, | asked them jor my clothes, but they would give them to me, aud | was obliged to move to this fever pavilion im the hospital ciothes, just as [| had tuem on. The lever pavilion tsa big | modern construction apart irom the hospital an otuer houses, 1 was all aione init The only per- | sons | Baw during the tweive days and a bail I was there were the female attendant, @ prisoner from the Penitentiary, and this orderly, August Mayer, or ‘Major,’ as they calied him over there. | ‘These two persons I saw ouce or twice a day ior alew minutes and no more. The woman, whose Name, OF st least the one sue gave at the trial, | Was Vemarest, gave me the hospital food, which it ! seidom used, or at least flung itat me, and then disappeared, She seemed never to have the time | to remain a moment, altnougn I did not care for her ene rapped mach, She was a coarse vuigar woman, in the habit of using language new to me, Stil at times I would have been giad even of the society Of a dog, 80 lonely was the place. When the tide Was in the water would rash up ander the bottom of the pavilion, and gurgie and ratte and roar in the pipes in @ manner that frightened me dreadiutiy, It made the place (or at least sol fe!t it) very damp, too, and | was constantly cold, having so little covering on me, At night vhe rata ‘Would run over the floor in shoals, and at times I was 80 alarmed I feared to breathe. 1 begged and begged ior @ little fire, even in the tune, ‘hough I would have prelerred it a! jt, 10r light keeps away rats, but 1 might as well have venged for mercy—there was none to be had. One when it wi wet day weyhad while 1 was there—the raining very hard—it was the day onty Prot- estant clergy! came into the ilion by mis | bea r she relates | | related the last scene of the tragedy. | about ¢ | parlor and was very sick. When 1 saw } and wettng my tht?, Me eprey spot ay So ap wie as amoral aoticing the longline a Disa n ee DESOLATENSSS 3. as his eves wandered slow, Uf they left me always lik truth, but added thas | ho; ioe in fow days, as 1 was gain'!D& rapidly, I Iwas when Is") Was not;{ was on the contr \), altogetier. I requested this cl One Of my own faith to me, and ered his promise and did’ 80. Qct of Kindness | experienced while in ful place. I saw my own clergyman, but be Frenchman, not speaking much Englisb, don’ ‘understood, me. Still he was very to me ve me what consolation he through the lew words he spoke. The next d got out of bed but talnted from absolute weakness Sod prostration, You see I bad had noth- ig to eat all the time i was there; I say nothing, absolutely nothing. The cold tea aud Wet clammy bread the woman brought me tm the morning I could not and the same was the case in the evening. When I did manage to get any of {t into my stomach 1s was only to allay the pale of positive hunger, which 1 ne all the what r d the sow) ; was no nourishment in it even vhen It was, eatable, One day | thoughs 11 of nov tea 1 shouid ta ore iatel the wom: cele she promused ehe id. The night befoi @ little talk together, and ane showed mie ee ing toward me, That was why I ventured to as! her to get me the tea. While we were talking asked her if ahe was ever up there on the Island belore. She laughed at me and said that was the forty-first Ume she had been there. When she brought me the tea there was 4 large maggot ints with legs, and [could not drink tt, much as] wanted: it. Two or turee times the man Mayer came tate the Ward and wanted to be familiar, put I woula not allow it. I suppose if! was the kind of girl he expected to find i would have been much better treated. 1 somplatned to him several times of the usage I received, but he only threatened me, and 1 had so much of that | was frightened almost to death. 1 lived in that place in constant fear, and that Lever lived through all that I suffered there, if 1 do, which 1 doubt now, 168 miracle. The day beiore Llett that terriole thing occurred. You don’t want me to go ali over that; Icouldn’t, im. deed, sir, Lcouldn’t, 1am weak now, a8 you cam see, And not destined to live long, but I would Tather die.here at once than go over tbe details of that time. I don’t really know that! could, ev i( I tried, tor Tiatnted almost at the tnstani. understood his terrible purpose, I sappose you can peng imagine the condition of constitation 8 Woman is reduced to, a poor woman, after @ year’s continual sickness. When I arrived at col sciousness Liound myself in condition such a8 bad never dreamed o SEKING & WOMAN IN, “Worse than being sick a whole lifetime, and that life of the longest duration; worse than being dead; worse than all te things that life and soa could put together. 1 dared not say @ word. was afraid to breathe. When I crept over to New York I could not walk; even the crawling was slow. Every block took me an hour almost to pass it. I managed to get to the Board of Health. A gentieman there—I don’t know his name, but be has a cast in bis eye—noticed in my man- ner 1 suppose thac I was unusually excited. He questioned me and | told him they had not treated me well over on the Isjand, Lhad made up my pilod not to speak of what nad hap- pened to me until I saw my iriends. He insisted should see Dr. Day, andl did. Dr. Day sent @- doctor with me to the commissioners. Tne, peo tended to. make ab examination into the matter but nothing came of it, He was sent for tai man and | was put down int a room in the bi ment, Then Mr. Laimbeer, who seemed to be his friend, had a talk with him, and he appeared to think nothing of what he had done, Afver a wblle I was called up, and Mr. Laimbeer asked me if I Would marry him, or go vo law, or take some money ? I told mm I dia not know what answer to give him to two of the questions until I saw my friends, but the marriage one 1 could answer at any time, and my answer was, ‘‘No.” He told me the mi did not know his namo; I don’t now, but they called him tne ‘‘Major’—would y over it, he asked me at. I told ° | a lawyer and perhaps beat me on the trial. That Was the second time when Dr Day had made them Jeel they Were in the wrong—but I replied I would trust my case in the hands of the Judges and the Almighty who knew my heart. Dr. Day sent | me at his own expense to the Presbyterian at pital, and [remained there about ten days. tried to.work, but {t was {inposivle; I had to give it up. When the trial was coming on Mr. Lyocm ‘wanted to send a lawyer in for me, they told me, but Mr, Lyons, the District Attorney—I think that 1s his name—would not allow him. I don’é think he was very fair to me. He never asked that Woman anything, aud sue swore falsely; any one could see that. Lots of them said they saw it wheo the trial was over, but What good could that do me? Ifhe made her teli how oiven she was up there and all she knew, as I have heard since, about Mayer, I don’t tnink that even Mr. Laimbeer could save Nim. But they were all against me—all but vr. Day and Mr. Lynch aod Professor Chandler. Mr. Laimbeer, who 1ooKs like 3 Man and ought to entiemao, wanted me to marry him; bot I could not do that. Receive a sacrament with suck, @ man as that! No; 1 couldn’s do that. 1 could notdothat Mr. Laimbeer stopped in his carriage coming out of the Court, ana desired me to marry him or settle it for money, saying he would beast me, but I thought America was 10o free a country lor that, and I wouldn’t listen to him, He took @ ower of trouble to destroy a poor girl like me, ie brought @ whole lot of doctors there to swear against me, and they did it too. Dr. Day toid the trath and I told the truth, but they did uot believe us. And, after all he’s done, I hear they’ve taken him back. The closest investigation of this last statement revealed that when the matter was first brought to the notice of the Comm‘ssioners of Charities and Correction Major was sent for and questioned. He admitted being GUILTY OF THE OFFENCB complained of by the girl, but said no violence had been used. Two of the Commissioners of Charities and Correction insisted upon his dismissal, bus Mr. Laimbeer, who had taken the caso in han resisted that, He sent Major back to the Islai and his duties. Eliza was handed over to Mr. Kellock, and he, after a few days, procured ber @ situation. She was unable to continue workin and had to give up the place. She took a secom and finally a third, but was compelled to give each in turn because of the shock her constita- tion had received, The alleged outrage committed upon her weighed so heavily on her mind that she grew more and more depressed every day, and, finding at last she was unable to bear the Weight of 8o much suffering, sne went to Dr. Di He made Professor Chandler acquainted with th facts in the case, and Professor Chandler wrote @ trong letter to the Commissioners of Charities and Correction, declaring the Board of Healt would not be responsible to the public tor tm condition of the girl or tne offences she char were committed against her. Immediately upom receipt of this letter Major was arrested and sent to the Tombs. The trial followed in que cou! and after the trial he returned to the Island. man named “Louis,” who has taken his place since Major's arrest, gave up guardians! 1p of the fever pavilion on Frida; to Major. Sev- eral persons employed on the Isiand said yester- day he was still about the hospital; but Commis sioner Laimbeer says he has been dismissed from the service of the department, Professor Cuandier, President ofthe Board of Health, was called on, as well as Dr. Day, and both seemed to consider the case most out rageous one. Dr, Day said he was ished from the poysical examination he had made that the woman was thoroughly pure anu delicate previous to tue assault, Professor Chandler said the man had no bust ness near or about the ward in whicn Eliza Cole | ins was placed, and that in any case it was no place fora man. Dr, Day seems to be thoroughly Satisfied the woman was forcibly outraged, as she complains, and at the time and in the way sue testifies. Her manner during his examination of her was that of a modest, sensitive woman, and | everything about her supported the strength of her statement. The lady who has befriended Eliza since her ar- Tival in the country was called on also, and ahe ‘She said :— the last three d, of course, knew nothing of 1 came back my maid said to and | think she here, I was away from home durii days of the trial, an the resnit. The day me, “Eliza ts {n tue parior, ma’m. has lost the case.” I came in and at cage | noticed something very peculiar in her appei ance. “Have you taken anything, Eliza” sald L “Yes, ma’m,” said she, “arsenic.” I sent for the doctor at once, and, while he was coming, I gave her an emetic, He came and walte® with fer ali night, and dally succeeded in saving her life ior the present, ‘The following 18 a copy of the letter sent to the fear: wuo had frat employed Eliza in bis Ouse — My Dean Mr After all your kindness and churity to Eliza I think ita duty she owes you to make You aware of her innocence, but as she is now incapable Ot doing so 1 will let you know what 1 have learned fis‘sad transaction of hers. I returned. howe om few days, and ‘4 was In the she was al- “The trial wen! false owth ai ‘Wednesday evening after an absence 0 ta our portress came to Iniorm me that 3) ost Insensible, but she could say, against me. woman took @ he was acquicted.” 6 looked s0 strange that it occurred to me she might have taken something whi affecied he when 1 accused hor she said, “Yes, have taken poison.” I sent for the doctor, who remained with her nearly all the might and saved her life, she im ow much. beter, but will never be Avie to do macm n, T hope you and Mrs. ‘who have deen 90 Kind to her, believe in her innoceace. of which there t not the slightest doubt, Almighty God has permict this heavy cross to tall on her ior some wise re which we cannot know, Dut we must believe that will punish ag he deserves the wicked cause of'so much. affliction. The names of some of the persons conneated. With this case are omitted tor apparent reasons. Coiling was the one used in the trial, though noe given by the girl, and retained here; but tne real names of all the parties are ia the HRRALD oMice. The girl 18 closely connected with # family, tlas- trious in Great Britain and weil known ali over America, CRUSHED BY MACHINERY, Dantel Hasbrouck, a man thirty-five years of age, yesterday afternoon, while adjusting a belt in the kindling wood factory, 307 Bieventh avenue, waa caught in the machinery and almost instant lied, The remains, by permtssion of Mr. Tot ) Secretary to the Board of Coroners, were remove . Beeln, bdeaung to tne jase residence of di a, and Coroner Biokhom potiged. icp