On examination of the five prisoners in the morning it was discovered that each of them had some article of clothing that belonged to the murdered men.

The bodies of the two miners were found and buried on the edge of the Bridal Veil meadow.

When the captives were accused of the murder of the two white men they admitted that they had killed them to prevent white men from coming to their Valley, declaring that it was their home and that white men had no right to come there without their consent.

Lieutenant Moore told them through his interpreter that they had sold their lands to the Government, that it belonged to the white men now and that they had agreed to live on the reservation provided for them.

To this they replied that Tenaya had never consented to the sale of their Valley and had never received pay for it.