MORE MORMON BUTCHERIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 157, 12 May 1879, Page 3

MORE MORMON BUTCHERIES.

Somo terrible disclosures wero made at thgrfrial of Bishop Robert T. Burton for tflnnurdcr of Miss Bella Bowman, From ™ stated, it appeared that the Morrisites, to which the murdered woman belonged, wero dissenters from the Morjno'n Church of Utah, and had made a little settlement in Weber County. On the 12th or 13th of June, 18(12, there appeared on the lulls surrounding their town a body of armed Mormons numbering between 400 and 000, who commenced planting their guns over the village. A little boy was sent with a note to the Morrisites, who wero given thirty minute to surrender. The people were called together, and while they were in the Bowery listening to the reading of the liote, one of the guns of the besiegers was discharged, killing two Morrisite women, and carrying away the chin of a little girl. Resistance was mantained three 'lays, when the besieged ran up a white flag, and stacked their unloaded arms some distance away. A company of the assailants then 'entered the village, and, after playing themselves between the Morrisites and the stacked arms, Mr Burton called on Morris and his followers to surrender. Morris said to his people—- ' All those who will follow me through life and death, step to one side." At this Burton shot him, whereupon Miss Bowman called him '' a bloodthirsty hound," and he immediately killed her, also. It appeared that the deluded people had 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.