Show 4 1IIOON ATOVE3IEST MANV sentiments have Lccn awakened in the community by the recent attempt on the jolt of lie Liberals to prove that She Mor iiion nre a Moody people and their religion a ynusuinary one TIm nsult lies Ien a combination I of aniusmcnt cxaipeialion and I disa > j > ointment As to hew tlitte f1ln Ire ditributul the local jiublic are in a position to Judge on tho ground of uccm or failure the olject Ought to Iv attained If the aUonilt to fasten upon the Lat terday Saints lie I odium of laying embraced a religion which directs the death penalty upon njostate or tlKHc who disobey the Priesthood las been abortive then It is ca y to locate the disappointment JInd there been any such murderous murder-ous element in the Mormon religion re-ligion proofs of its operation rouldJiavu been abundant After rakinftover every poetible facility j IIiirll > crals were rewarded for their antJlomlon ztOl by trik ing a bonanza of blood in the War diIIGreen tragcjy An occasional touching up of the plaintive narrative narra-tive toW by lionct Uardellis ap jrojiriato to the times Briefly it was this lie was crowing the plains in 1562 with a Mormon immigrant com jwnyof about sixty wagons A man named William Green drove the next wagon to that driven by Ward War-d ll A short disinco froiu Green Ifiver William Green was taken out of his wagon < by a number of < Mormons and because lie bad ajntatized a bloodatoner seized each 3111 while another cut his throat The body was robbed and I 1 carried away Wardeil and other fcpectatore ol uus sanguinary spectacle spec-tacle being told to keepquictand ia3 nothing aboll tIn t-In answer t > qu 3tons Wardeil gave the names of j TSOUS who besides be-sides himself had teen the assassination assassin-ation Among thosj were number of i > ersons now deceased and tome jAill living Among UK latter were Georgu Wardeil son of tile witness and JonJih Folett lie also stated j that tae hapless victim ot blood atonement was a resident of Farm Jugt JD Davis County Utah Jlesid a large number of oilier nitnesses who were In the immigrant immi-grant comjaui with which War dell traveled who testified Hint no I sucli murder ever occurred the two specially named b by Wardeil gave evidence the same cflect Here bJ for instance is tile evidence given aisotrar WUDILL I am the son of Martin D Wanlsll lie is In tho court room I camo with Jiim in 1S42 in Oiiitaiii Dime cum I < any i am not a member of any church do not believe in Momon torn remember crossing Green JJuer there was no man killed in our train faher crowed the plains only oace if there had been a man named Green killed I would have known it I heard of nothing of the kind I did not drive Greens wagon nor hear of it I iiy roT < > my fathers capon The Clmrci gave us the wagon at Florence Nebraska for us Income in and I left tba wagon in ilie Tithing office never beard rather relata His tory before we c5 me through latjin tho Call ol 16Ji do not remember Hilly William or Geonro JnycJer no mail from our camp was killed 1 never heard of any man bring killed on tho trip across the plains Here I j the substance of the stat meal iiinue on the itness stand by the veteran JOSEIU tJILJrr Lu I was 75 last June reside at Wes ton Idaho lived In Utah 27 years came in 1S62 in Captain Dimes corn play there were about sixty vayons I remember a nan named Wardeil in tin eonipany I worked with him a couple of ears afterwards in Salt Lake County Wardeil had liii ifo and cliiUlreti the on plains no man of our company was killed nor was there any Wiling that I know of Wanlclls I slorr about the killing is enflrely I fake nothing of that nature look jdace I neer heard of such a thing I till test Wednesday when I was called to this city there vas a woman killed in our tram by being run over by a wagon an old gentleman from I land died in our Kiig 1 m camp he wassick i woo n OTHCTJ HU one was lost from our camp A number of witcesna were pro duced who notified that they had resided in 1armingtou since 1S53 anti that Isaac Green wn tine only Bin of the nam of GnClI who ever lived in that town that thc said Green is now living in Wellsviile i Cache County and had been MIII by tho witnesses within a short period The defense offered toprodueeMr Green if I mtlicient time were given The court said itwas was uuneceissary as the WardcllGreei murder would Iieconsidtred ditprotstl In the face of these facts and the direct stotcment of the court tIle H lit j joerai anc antMor mon organ published in this city In its isue of Thursday n Nov CSth in a long tedious column and n half editorial labored to show that tile astiastination was a fact indulging in a let of sickening stuff about the truthfulncs of the humble car KiiUT Waideli at the Saran time hroulug journalistic mud at the witnesses whose I testimony < mashed the wicked story of that fl venomous crank We here quote from I the article In question Xo one who saw the witness on tho aland aside from tine fact that ono is a Mormon bound by oath to conceal the fact oven if true woald he ilato which to believe FolletTs wildly r streaming hair and glittering gray eyes would mark him a fanatic any where while lino quiet thonghtfiil ti gentlemanly u bearing of Wardollnould uuiiucuu umi asono who was entitled to confidence in any matter that ho knew It is presumed that the Judge saw the witness on the stand yet he stated that no further evidence fa the point was needed the mur der having been disproved l The logic of the Liberal organ is that the veracity of a witness Is to be guaged by the length of his locks and tine color and brilliancy of 1 lib eyes According to this rule It r will be eminently proper for a per n am called to testify In any important import-ant case to have his hair cut a fa Jomjndour before appearing on the J Ci < stand also to look out of his eyes I i with a fishy expression or the j pacific gaze common to the sturdy 1 rumInating ox If the veteran Mr Follettliad been placed in the hands I I of a barber and suljected los short crop by havIng the clippers I run over his cranium before appearing appear-ing in court he would according to the Liberal rule of Judging the quality of evidence have been Implicitly Im-plicitly believed especially ifihis eyes were devoid of glitter aud expressionless I ex-pressionless as a stone fence On the other hand WardelPs auletthouchtful gentlemanly bear ing Indicated he was entitled to confidence in any matter that he knew As the mythical trumped up Mormon murder was one of tho things tIt he never knew bccauscuhat never existed cannot be known in that regard he was not nUlled to confidence To make the picture completi the veritable murdered Mr Green ap pears upon the scene In the form of the following aflidavit TEnaironr or UTAH 1 Cocvrr or UTAH5 Willlim Green being duly snorn on hs oath tsys I am an Englishman English-man by birth fiftylive years of age and now a resident of SpanIsh Fork City Utah County Territory of Ulih I crossed tine plains In 1S02 n Captain Dame company I know a man by I the name of Wardeil ho crossed the prlns arid cuno I Ulih in tho same I company I did Wo traveled together to-gether until the company an Ived at a point near Willam Kmballa ranch in Parleys Park where I left tho train ahead of the company being oxiau to mt m wjr whn = then Jon It Lake City she having traveled over the pans the amo season with Captain limOs company I have lived in Jalt Lake City and Spmlsh Fork City plnce I carrie ta Utah I was the only man by the name of Green that I know of who canes over In Captain names company Xo man was killed in that omrnny by the name of I Green or of any oilier name nor did I ever bear of any cannot of any ono being killed in said company until I I saw the stiJjment Wardeil recently in the papers I am not a Mormon nor have I bcjn for ieveril yesrs 1 am not a believer in Mormon theocracy theo-cracy but do bailey it ss ong to have any religious oct or body of people assailed by fal ehood ehoodWILLIAM WILLIAM Gnrnx Subscribed aid swam to before lOA this 25th day of November 1SS9 WILLIAM CREKR snot Xotary Ilibilc Now it appears tint William Green was not so far as ho can recollect murdered and robbl by Mormons because of apostasy anJ U will be scarcely held even by tile Liberal organ that such a circumstance could have occurred tile story of the gentlennuly and thoughtful Wardeil ta tliecoutray notwithstanding without his Iwirg aware of the fac But here comes a question of vet city Is William Green really to b believed ou this subject There nn some matters to b verified firs We suggest that lu order to establish this joint beyond a rcorjribe doubt that 3r r Green be wrtd upon by a committee of prominent Liberals whoe duty siould b to pcciiin whether his hair is short or strearnins ale color of Ms eyes i Bray being the doubtul hue and if they are dull lOu e should they have a tendency to glitte tins quality will be fatal to his sworn statement Seeing that the GrcenWnnell murder was the only blood atonement atone-ment incident tile active politicians of tho Liberal party could concoct con-coct investigation ihould Isecon ducted forthwith as tine making of much political capital depends upon proving the Latterday Saints to b a blood atonlug people |