Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1881 — A Rope of Woman’s Hair. [ARTICLE]

A Rope of Woman’s Hair.

St. Louis Republican. In his detail of Indian horrors that came under his notice, Mr. Markley, the New Mexico Indian killer, stated that in 1867 he gave an Indian half a dollar for a hair rope ten feet in length and about the size of his little finger. He untwisted the end and found that it was made of red, auburn and black hair, which, from the length of each hair, was evidently that of a woman. He questioned the Indian, who told him the rope was made from the hair of the women and girls slain in the Mountain Meadow massacre, for complicity, with which murder John D. Lee, the Mormon, was tried and shot a few years ago. The place where he purchased the rope was at Palerongate, sixty-five miles from Mountain Meadow, where the most harrowing and brutal massacre of modern times occurred.