The Evening Star to-day contains the following : " Sumner D. Howard, formerly Marshal of Utah, said in conversation, while here recently, that Lee, the Mountain Meadows murderer, never made a con fession. He and Marshal Nelson tried in vain to obtain from him a bona fide confession, but Leo persistently refused to make one. The confession published at the time of Lee's exe cution was composed by himself, Nelson, and a newspaper correspondent, assisted by Lee, whose approval it received. It was not, how ever, by any means a confession. Howard said that the reason Lee refused to confess was principally because his favorite wife, who was with him at the time, was also red-handed in the murder." |