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giving an account of the massacre, I
told him to stop, as from what I
had already learned by rumor. I did
not wish my feelings harrowed up
with a recital of details.

10th

He saith:-

No. He did not call with John
D. Lee, and I have no recollection of
his ever speaking to me nor I to him
concerning the massacre or anything
pertaining to the property.

11th

He saith:-

No. I never gave any directions
concerning the property taken
from the company of emigrants at
the Mountain Meadow Massacre; nor
did I know anything of that property
or its disposal, and I do not to this
day except from public rumor.

12th

He saith:-

Because another Governor
had been appointed by the President
of the United States, and was then
on the way here to take my place;