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Datum: Mittwoch, den 8. Juli 2009, um 22:08 Uhr
Betrifft: Wife No. 19

Ann Eliza Young erzählt über den Prozess folgendes:

The trial had been appointed for the 12th of July, in the Second District Court, held at Beaver, Southern Utah, before Judge Jacob S. Boreman, who had been trying for some time, ever since the passage of an act of Congress, the 23rd of June, 1874, which presented slashing between Federal and Territorial officers, to have some action taken
toward punishing those persons who were shown to have been engaged in this Mountain Meadows assassination.
Judge Boreman’s attempt to bring the Mountain Meadows’ assassins to justice, the first that had been made since the failure of Judge Cradlebaugh’s essay to find indictments against any of the persons connected with the massacre, resulted in finding a joint indictment against William H. Dame, John D. Lee, Isaac C. Haight, John M. Higbee, Philip Klingensmith, William C. Stewart, Samuel Jukes, George Adair, Jr., and some others, for conspiracy and murder. Warrants for their apprehension were issued, but after a long search only two were apprehended—Lee and Dame.

Then came another long delay. It was almost impossible to obtain witnesses to testify. This was the same trouble which had sixteen years before beset Judge Cradlebaugh; and District Attorney Carey, who prosecuted the case for the people, was almost discouraged lest he too should fail to sustain his case. “Hold your tongues” has been so long a vital lesson, that the Mormon people find it
difficult work to wag them. Over one hundred subpoenas were issued, but it was impossible to collect the witnesses.
Some of the least important obeyed the summons, but those who knew the most about the affair, and whose testimony would be of the most vital interest and service, failed to put in an appearance. Among these, and the witness above all others on whom the prosecution relied, was Philip Klingensmith, formerly a bishop in Cedar City, a participantin the massacre, who wished to ease his conscience by a full confession. (...)

In this introduction, Lee plainly accuses the leaders of the church. The men “were acting under orders.”
Whose? They could not have emanated from the local officers of the church, since it would have been in no wise a “religious duty” to obey orders from men who were no higher in authority than themselves. Alas for Lee’s “conscience,” the shackles were more firmly bound than he supposed.
His sense of duty to his family, his God, and humanity was blunted by the superior sense of duty to the church, and he failed utterly to do what he had so faithfully promised in the opening sentences of his confession.
After the disappointing delay caused by the preparation of Lee’s confession, the trail went steadily on to the end. The prosecution brought forward about twenty witnesses,
who corroborated the incidents of the massacre, and testified that the feeling against the party was aroused by George A. Smith, who everywhere preceded the train, and forbade the people selling them anything, under pain of the church’s displeasure.

It was shown, too, that when, on being refused food at Cedar City, the last place at which they stopped, they asked where they could obtain it, and were told, Mountain Meadows; which assists in establishing more fully the fact
that the would affair was premeditated, and that the party were deliberately led to their destruction."
(Ann Eliza Young: "Wife No. 19, Seiten 256-259)

Es war also George A. Smith die offizielle "Biedermann", der die Brandstifter Lee und Konsorten dazu aufhetzte. Aber hätte Smith ohne den Befehl oder zumindest der Billigung Youngs überhaupt etwas getan?
War Young nicht möglicherweise letztendlich die Befehlsgewalt, die hinter allem stehen könnte?
Denn nichts geschah in Utah, in der es laut Ann Eliza Young, keine Gerechtigkeit gab, OHNE den Befehl, oder zumindest die Billigung Brigham Youngs.

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