Scope and Contents This response to indictment is directed to the District Court of the Second Judicial District, Territory of Utah, Beaver County. The content challenges the applicability of the law cited in the indictment, the jurisdiction of the court and asks for dismissal. This folder contains a photocopied version for access purposes. The original item has been removed and placed in Reserve. Access must be given by the Manuscripts Curator and by appointment. An archivist must...

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This document is a 13-page typed research paper by Timothy J. Flaherty, written while a student at Brigham Young University. Flaherty's research into the records of the two trials and execution of John D. Lee led to his observation that, "The proceedings of the trials, testimonies of eye-witnesses and others involved, and Lee's own personal account indicate that the wrong man was fraudulously tried, convicted and executed."

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This item is a photocopy of an annotated text that deals with Lee's activities and family life in 1847. There is much discussion of the "law of adoption" and the addition of ladies into Lee's families is noted. The document includes an illustration of Emma Batchelder with the notation, ". . . was given to Lee in 1858 by Brigham Young (wife no. 17). Operated Lee's Ferry several years after 1874. Remarried, moved to Holbrook, Arizona, and became a famous frontier nurse."