MORE MORMON BUTCHERIES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 99, 26 April 1879, Page 4

MORE MORMON BUTCHERIES.

Some terrible disclosures were made at the trial ot Bishop .Robert T. Burton, for the murder of Miss Bella Bow- ! man. From the facts stated it appeared I that the Morrisites, to which the murdered woman belonged, were dissenters from the Mormon Church of Utah, and had made a little settlement in Weber county. On the 12th or 13th of June, 1862, there appeared on the hills surrounding their town a body of armed Mormons numbering between 400 and GOO, who commenced planting their guns over the village. A little boy was sent with a note to the Morrisites, who were given thirty minutes to surrender. The people were calted together, and J while they were in the Bowery listening j to the reading of the note, one of the guns o f the besiegers wsb discharged, killing two Merrisite women and carrying away the chin of a little girl. Eesistftnc© was maintained for three

days, when the besieged ran up a white flag and stacked their unloaded arms some distance away. A company of the assailants then entered the viilage, and after placing themselves between the Morrisites and the stacked arms, Mr Burton called on Morris and his followers to surrender. Morris said to bis people, «« All those who will follow me through life and death, step to one side." At thia Burton shot him, whereupon Miss Bowman called him "a bloodthirsty hound," and be immediately killed her also, saying that no one could call him that and live. The witnesses proved that the massacre was hounded on by Burton. It was shown that the deluded people bad regarded their leader Morris as equal with Christ, and expected him to rise from the dead The trial had not concluded when the mail left.