Charles L. Walker reports that Brigham Young was "foiled by Judge Cradlebaugh" and had to change his strategy regarding the massacre.
Diary of Charles L. Walker, June 11, 1876, Charles L. Walker papers, MS 494, Church History Library
as to the Mountain Meadows Massacre if he had not been foiled by Judge Cradlebaugh and other federal officials, he would have hung every guilty person concerned in the bloody deed.