Show BLOOD ATONEMENT t MANY Mat sentim sentiments sentiments Q have been awakened in the community by the recent attempt on en the part of th the Liberals to prove prove that the Mor Mor- Mor Mormons J mons 1 mons tire ore a bloody J people and their religion a sanguinary one The result has been a combination n of S of amusement exasperation and land disappointment As to how these feelings ai are are distributed the local public are in l a t posItion position to judge on the ground of success or f failure of the object sought SO to be b attained at If If l the m attempt pt to fasten A upon poD pon the La Lat Lat- ter clay ter-clay d Y Saints the odium of having embraced a religion r ligion which directs ls the the death penalty nalty upon apostates a for or those who disobey the Priesthood has bas been abortive then it la is i easy to locate locate the disappointment lent Had H d theta there been any If such Buch murder murder- murderous t ous element in the Mormon re- re re proofs ligion proofs of its it It operation 1 would have been en b abundant After Aft r raking over every possible facility facUlty the Liberals were ere rewarded for their their anti anti- anti Mormon Mormon zeal deal by striking striking striking ing ing a bonanza of blood in the Wart War Green dell tragedy An oo oc occasional ional touching to touching ching up of the the plaintive narrative narrative narra- narra tive told by honest W Wardell rdell is ap- ap appropriate ftp ftp- to the times Briefly it r w was was s t tuis this iB Hew He was crossing the plains In 1862 s with a a- a Mormon immigrant immigrant com com- about si sixty ty wagons A man named William Green drove the w next wagon to that driven by War Ware J II f J dell deJl A short abort distance from Green 1 00 River William Green was take taken ou out of his wagon by a number of Y Mormons and because he had hadr r apo apostatised a blood seized each arm while another cut his throat The body was robbed and carried away Wardell and other spectators of this tills sanguinary spec spew spectacle spectacle being told to keep quiet and aa nothing about It ItIn it In answer to questions Wardell i gave the names of persons ons who be- be besides be sides aides himself had seen the assassin assassin- assassination Mien n Among those were a number 1 of persons now deceased and some 1 still till living Jiving Among the latter were George Wardell son of the witness t mad ad Joseph Follett He also allO stated I that the hapless victim of blood ft atonement was a resident of Farm Farm- Farmington Farm ington rit ington Davis Count County County Utah Besides a large number of other I witnesses lel who were in the immigrant immigrant grant company with which War War- Wardell Wardell dell deJl traveled who testified that no such m murder lder ever occurred the two specially named by Wardell gave t evidence to the same effect Here for tor instance is the evidence given bys by s GEORGE WARDELL I am the s son n of Martin D Wardell he be is in the court courtroom room I came with him in 1862 in to Captain Dame Dames Dame's com com- company company company pany I am not a member of any ry church do not believe in Mormon pm jam sm remember crossing Green River there was no man killed in our ourt t train father cro crossed sed the plaint plains only ones once if there had bad been a man named Green killed t I would woud have known it I heard beard of nothing of the kind I did not drive Green Greens Green's wagon nor hear of it I only drove my fathers father's wagon K The Church gave us the wagon at Florence Nebraska for us to come In inand and I left the th wagon in the Tithing effice newer never heard father relate this story before we came uh through late in inthe inthe inthe the fall of ol 1662 1682 do not not remember Billy Williams or George Geow Snyder no noman noman fry man from our camp was killed never b lard of any man being killed on the trip across the plains Here Rere is Ie the su substance of the state state- anent ment made on the witness stand by bythe bythe the veteran vete-an JOSEPH ItI I I was 75 76 cast iut June Jane reside at Wes Wes- Weston Weston We ton ton Idaho lived in Uta Utah 27 years year came in 1862 in Captain Dames Dame's com Coin company company f pany parry there were about sixty wagons I remember a span man named Wardell in inthe inthe inthe the company I worked with him a couple of years yeara afterwards in Salt It Lake County Wardell had his hie wife and children on the plains no man of our company was waa killed nor was there G any airy killing kUling that I know of Wardell's t tory story about the killing kUling to Is entirely t false nothing of that nature took place I nev never r heard beard of such a thing till last Wednesday when I was called to this ibis city there was a woman killed in iD our train by being run over by a wagon an old gentleman from Eng Eng- England England England land died in our camp he was sick when we started no one was lost from our camp A number of witnesses were pro pro- produced produced pro produced who testified that they had resided in Farmington since 1853 and that Isaac Gr Green n was the only man of the name of Green who ever lived in that town that the said Green is now living in Wellsville Cache County and had been seen by the witnesses within a short period The defense offered to produce Mr Green if sufficient time were given The court said it was unnecessary as the Wardell Green murder woul would be considered disproved l In the face of these facts and the direct statement of the court the chief Liberal and a mon Mor Mor anti mon organ published in this city in its issue of Thursday Nov in a long ng tedious column an and a half editorial labored to show that the assassination was a fact indulging in a lot of sh sickening stuff about the truthfulness of the humble car car- carpenter carpenter penter Wardell at the same time throwing journalistic mud at the witnesses whose testimony smashed the wicked story of that venomous venomous crank We here quote from the article in question No UNo one who saw the witness on the stand aside from the fact that one Is Isa Isa isa a Mormon bound by oath to conceal the fact even if true would hesitate which to believe Folletts Follett's wildly streaming hair and glittering gray grayeyes grayeyes grayeyes eyes would mark him a fanatic any any- anywhere anywhere any anywhere where while the quiet thoughtful gentlemanly bearing of Wardell would commend him as one who was entitled d to confidence in any matter that he knew It is presumed that the Judge saw the witness 88 on the stand yet he stated that no further evidence on 00 the point paint was n needed ed the mur- mur murder murder mur murder der having been disproved The logic of the Liberal organ Is that the veracity of a witness is isto isto isto to be by the length of his locks and the color and brilliancy of his hll eyes According to this rule it will be eminently proper for tor a per per- person person person son called caned to testify in any import import- important Important important ant case to have his hair cut a la Pompadour before appearing on the stand aso also to look out of his bis eyes with a q fishy expression or the pacific gaze gate ga e common to the sturdy st ruminating ox If the vete veteran Mr Follett had been placed in the hands lot of a barber and aDd subjected to a ft n short crop by having the cUppers clippers i run over his cranium before appear appear- appearIng appearing v ing in court he would according to the Liberal rule of judging the quality of evidence have been im- im implicitly im implicitly believed especially if his eyes were devoid of glitter and ex- ex expressionless ex expressionless as a stone fence On the other hand band Wardell-Is Wardell though bear bear- bearing bearing indicated ing indicated he was entitled to confidence in any matter that he knew As the mythical trumped Mormon murder of up u p was one the things that he never knew because what never existed cannot be known in that regard he was not entitled to confidence To make the picture complete the veritable murdered Mr Green ap- ap appears ap appears pears upon the scene in the form lorm of the following affidavit TERRITORY OF OP UTAH 1 88 COUNTY OF UTAH j William Green being duly sworn on his oath says I am an English English- Englishman Englishman Englishman man by birth five fifty years of age and now a resident of Spanish Fork anty Utah h County Territory of Utah ed the plains in 1862 in Captain Dames Danies company I knew a man by bythe bythe bythe the name of Wardell he crossed the plains and came to Utah in the same byi i company as a I did We traveled to- to together together to together gether until the company arrived at a point near William Kimballs Kimball's ra oh ch in Parleys Parley's Park where I left the train ahead of the company being I anxious to meet my wife w o was then in Salt Lake City she having traveled over the plains the name ame season with wih Captain Hoyt's floyt's company I have lived in Salt Lake City and Spi Sp p i mish nish Fork Furk Fo irk City s since ce I came to Utah I was the only man man by the name of Green that I Il l know of who came over in Captain Dames Dame's company No man was killed in that company company by the name of Green or of any other name nor did didI didI I ever hear of any rumor of ot anyone any one being killed in said co company m pany until I t saw the statement of Wardell recently in the papers I am not a Mormon nor have I been for several years I Iam Iam Iam am not a believer in Mormon theo theo- theocracy theocracy theocracy cracy but de d believe it wrong to have any religious sect or body of people assailed by falsehood WILLIAM GREEN Subscribed and sworn to before me methis this day of November 1889 WILLIAM SEAL Notary Public Now it appears that William WilHam Green was WaR not so far as be he can recollect murdered and robbed by Mormons because of apostasy r rand and it will be scarcely held even by bythe bythe bythe the Liberal organ that such a circumstance could oud have occurred y the the story of the gentlemanly and thoughtful Wardell Warden to the contrary fi 1 f fJ J y Without notwithstanding notwithstanding without his aware of the fact But here comes a question of vera vera- veracity veracity o city Is William Green really to be believed on t this is subject There are some matters to be verified We suggest that in order to establish F this point beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr Green be waited upon by a committee of prominent Liberals whose duty should be to ascertain whether his hair is short or streaming the color of his eyes gray being the doubtful hue and if they are dull because should they have a 8 tendency to glitter gUtter this quality will be fatal to his sworn statement Seeing that the Green Warden Green murder was the only blood atone atone- atonement atonement atonement ment incident the active politicians of the Liberal party could con con- concoct concoct the investigation should be con con- conducted conducted conducted ducted forthwith as the making of much political capital depends upon provi proving ng the Latter-day Latter Saints to be bea bea bea a blood-atoning blood people |