Criminals are sometimes undone by their stupidity or desperation, but there are others who are discovered by sheer bad luck. Such is the case of a gravedigger named Jean Baptiste.
Utah, 1862Four men were arrested, and two were sought in an assault upon John W. Dawson (1820-1877) the governor of Utah who had been nominated to the post by Abraham Lincoln. One of these men was named Moroni Clawson. Ironically three weeks before they had been hired to protect the governor until he reached the eastern boundary of the Utah territory, but then something changed.
