place, as I am informed has been his custom since he came into the Valley. I was with Dr. Forney from the time I joined him until he returned to the City of Salt Lake, having voluntarily abandoned my expedition to Sevier, to aid his humane enterprise and during the trip I repeatedly heard him tell the Mormons that they need not fear Judge Cradlebaugh (whose disclosures to Emery had created some alarm) that he (Forney) would have him removed from office; that the Mormons (Murderers and all) were all included in the President’s proclamation and pardon, and would not be tried or punished for any offense whatever committed prior to the issuing of the pardon—That Judge Cradlebaugh was not a fit man for office—in fact abusing and slandering the Judge in unmeasured terms in language being too low or filthy to apply to him. I could arrive at no other conclusion from his conduct than that the Doctor desired to influence the minds of the Mormons against the judiciary, and that he cared more to create a prejudice against Judge Cradlebaugh’s course in attempting to bring these murders to light, than he did to elicit the truth relative to the murders, and that he was only following out his instructions from the General Government in going after the children, while he was availing himself of this journey to make a pilgrimage to the south settlements to abuse & traduce Judge Cradlebaugh and arouse a feeling of resistance to his authority among the guilty murderers.

So it is to be regretted that the Doctor has manifested so hostile a feeling to his associate Federal Officer and that the course of the Judge especially that of Judge