Annie Hoag gives testimony of a drunk man confronting Isaac Haight.

Date
1874
Type
Speech / Court Transcript
Source
Annie Hoag
LDS
Hearsay
Scribed Verbatim
Reference

Annie Hoag, Testimony, 26–27, in John D. Lee, First Trial, Annie Hoge Testimony, 931–932

Scribe/Publisher
Mountain Meadows Association
People
Brigham Young, Annie Hoag, Isaac C. Haight
Audience
Jury for the Trial of John D. Lee
PDF
Transcription

A. HE SAID THAT THEY HAD BEEN CAROUSING THAT NIGHT IN CEDAR CITY. SOME MAN HAD GOT DRUNK, AND CURSING AROUND PRESIDENT’S HAIGHT’S PLACE AND CALLED HIM OUT AND HE WOU LD NOT GO; THE MAN TOLD HIM IF HE WAS A MAN HE WOULD TO COME OUT THERE./ PRESIDENT HAIGHT WOULD NOT GO OUT; BUT HE WENT OUT THROUGHT THE BACK DOOR AND GOT SOME MEN TO ARREST THIS MAN THAT HAD GOT DRUNK. THEY TOLD ISAAC HAIGHT THAT IF THEY DIDN’T COME OUT AND SPEAK TO THEM THAT THEY WOULD WSHOOT HIM.. THAT THAEY WERE GOING TO CALIFORNIA AND SEND AN ARMY OF SOLDIERS TO TAKE BRIGHAM YOUNDG, DAME, HAIGHT AND EVERY OTHER DAMN MORMOHN IN THE COUNTRY.

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