Posted on 11/28/2023 7:50:48 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1857, the Utah Territory finished the extrajudicial executions it had botched three days before.
As we have detailed, Utah’s Mormon authorities had during these months of near-war against federal authorities taken prisoner a party of Californians crossing their territory — the Aiken (or Aikin) Party.
On November 25, four members of that party were murdered by the Mormon guards escorting them out of the territory — killings that were quite extrajudicial, but also quite deliberately orchestrated by the state.
Except, they had only killed two of the four.
Although outnumbered by their attackers and miles from the nearest settlement, somehow two men — perhaps John Aiken and John “Colonel” Eichard or Achard, although we cannot be certain of their identities — survived the bludgeons and staggered, wounded, back to the town of Nephi whose residents could not but take them in: an awkward situation since they still had to be done to death and could not very well be gunned down right there in the town......
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that rivals Judas’, being as blackhearted a deed committed by conspiratorial religionists as i’ve ever contemplated.
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