A murderer in the family?

On April 4^th 2013, I posted a link to the history of “Old Uncle” Salmon Gee Jr.  I prepared a story in addition to the one that I posted on Family Tree for the cousins reunion at the Heber Valley Camp.  I ran out of time, so I did not present it, but it is still an interesting story. So I have posted it on his stories and send you a teaser.

Salmon Jr. was born in Madison, Ashtabula, Ohio in 1830, and two years before his parents joined the church.  He is listed in the census with his parents, but not much is known about him and his movements.  He is not listed in the Overland Trail database and we do not know how and when he came to Utah.  There is a record in the newspapers about his involvement with a murder in Bingham, Utah.  A man by the name of “Sod” Butcher was accused of the murder of three men by the name of Cotton. Salmon was accused of complicity in the murder.  His older brother Lysander Gee defended him.  He was found not guilty.  This story is found on the William Hickman (Wild Bill) website.  Wild Bill Hickman died in a hotel in Lander, Wyoming probably of an intestinal infection and is buried up Squaw Creek.  You may find the Link to this story Here.