me food was brought to me, but I was still kept a
prisoner and refused the liberty of consulting with friends or
any of my family. Late that day I looked out of the window of the
chamber where I was confined, and saw a man by the name of John
Steel. He was first Counselor to the President of that Stake of
Zion. I called to him and asked him to secure my freedom. After
stating the case to him, he promised to see what could be done
for me, and went away.

Through his exertions I was released. I was told to go home and
hold myself subject to orders - that my case was not yet decided.
I went home, but for months I expected death every day; for it is
the usual course of the authorities to send an Angel after men
who are charged with or suspected of having violated their
covenants.

Nothing further was done about the case, but it was held over me
as a means of forcing me to live in accordance with the wishes of
the Priesthood and to prevent me from again interfering with the
Church authorities when they saw fit to destroy a man, as they
destroyed old man Braffett; and it did have the effect of making
me more careful.

In 1854 (I think that was the year) there was a young man, a
Gentile, working in Parowan. He was quiet and orderly, but was
courting some of the girls. He was notified to quit, and let the
girls alone, but he still kept going to see them. This was
contrary to orders. No Gentile is allowed to keep company with or
visit any Mormon girl or woman.

The authorities decided to have the young man killed, so they
called two of Bishop Dames' Destroying Angels, Barney Carter and
old man Gould, and told them to take that young Gentile "over the
rim of the basin." That was a term used by the Danites when they
killed a person. The Destroying Angels made some excuse to induce
the young man to go with them on an excursion, and when they got
close to Shirts' mill, near Harmony, they killed him and left his
body in the brush.

The Indians found the body, and reported the facts to me soon
afterwards. I was not at home that night, but Carter and Gould
went to my house and stayed there all night. Rachel asked them
where they had been. They told her they had been on a mission to
take a young man, a Gentile, over the rim of the basin, and
Carter showed her his sword, which was bloody, and said he used
it to help the Gentile over the edge. Rachel knew what they meant
when they spoke of sending him "over the rim of the basin."