rtook the company that Tobin was traveling
with at a point near the crossing of the Magottsey. They found
where he was sleeping, and, going to him as he lay on the ground
rolled up in his blanket, they shot him several times. Although
thinking him dead, they concluded to shoot him once more to make
certain that he would not escape, so they put a pistol against
his eye and fired; the ball put out his eye, but did not kill
him. The Angels made their escape and returned to Salt Lake City,
and reported that their orders were obeyed. Severely wounded as
he was, Tobin recovered, and was, when I last heard from him, in
the Union army.

At Parowan, in 1855 or 1856, there was a man by the name of
Robert Gillespie. He was a member of the Church, had one wife,
and owned a fine property. Gillespie wanted to be sealed to his
sister-in-law, but for some reason his request was denied. He had
known of others obtaining wives by committing adultery and then
being sealed to avoid scandal. So he tried it, and went to
Apostle Smith, and again asked to be sealed to the woman. But
Brother Smith refused to seal him or let him be sealed, giving as
his reason for refusing, that Gillespie had exercised the rights
of sealing without first obtaining orders to do so. A warrant was
issued and Gillespie was arrested and placed under guard; he was
also sued in the Probate Court, before James Lewis, Probate
Judge, and a heavy judgment rendered against him, and all of his
property was sold to pay the fine and costs. The money was put
into the Church fund and Gillespie was broken up.

The fate of old man Braffett, of Parowan, was a peculiar one,
and, as it afterwards led me into trouble, I will give the story
briefly. Old man Braffett lived at Parowan, and in the fall of
1855 a man by the name of Woodward came to Braffett's house and
stopped to recruit his teams before crossing the deserts.
Woodward had two wives. He had lived in Nauvoo, and while there
had been architect for the Nauvoo House. While Woodward and his
family were stopping with Braffett, one of his wives concluded
that she would be damned if she went to live in California, -
leaving the land of the Saints, - and she asked to be divorced
from Woodward and sealed to Braffett.

At first Braffett refused to take her, but she was a likely
woman. She made love to the old man in earnest. Mrs. Braffett
made a fuss about it. The authorities were informed of Braffett's
transgressions, and he was