Show deplorable DEPRAVITY among the tile cities in which the analil aati Mori uon infection provoked a a demonstration of t virtuous indignation at alic th C faith and practices of the latter day saint saints denver played a prominent part we at the time ref referred efred to the meeting arranged and held by ministers of various denominations except one catholic priest who prudently foresaw in the crusade against mormonism monism the forerunner of possible persecution and ostracism of other cities of te tm heartily ber tily in denouncing the imaginary im gin evils of utah like their i pharisaical Pharis mical P prototypes roto types of old they imagined ima gilled seeing the moto mote in their neigh neighbors boN eye while blind against g a in t the beam in their oven n optics in order to show that the clergymen of denver leadville Lc adville and other colorado towns employ their time with better results and more nore r reason to evils in their immediate surroundings wo we will only refer f er to three cases of deplorable depravity recorded in ill one is issue it of the denver Tri tribune bunc which by the way n narrates arrates similar terrible tales day after day lay wo we do not intend to make the masses of colorado answerable for individual in dividu a I crime but would simply advise the would w be reformers of utah morals mo ia Is to sweep tho the ordure from f rom their th ir own own door the first case is that of a ruthless rut bless murder committed at leadville on tho tile afternoon of the of march the victim was officer sam townsend one of the oldest and most popular officers acers of leadville Lc adville and his slayer thorp C early a leading young lawyer member of the firm f irm of danford early the tile two had bad had an altercation over the costs bot of court in a certain case in which early was engaged the difference over which they fell out was ten cents it appears that early E arly met liis his victim on the street and after a very ver y few fe v words fired three pistol shots at townsend one of which was r as speedily fatal early escaped pd from the wrath of tile assassinated mans friends into a coa islieb where ho he had to be protected pro by a sheriffs sh posse against the infuriated crowd that wanted to avenge the cruel murder in swift justice popular indignation at leadville Lead le adville villo is great and we would not be surprised to learn that the assassin has been taken out of jail and summarily dealt with at the hands of judge lynch park city saw a man mail killed for f or 83 the other day but here we have human blood spilled for no more than a dime in the second case related by our denver we lye have an appalling instance off of female e in ale borrup tion it is the heartrending story of a young woman not yet eighteen daughter of well to do and virtuous parents who of her own free will vill plunged d herself into the whirl whirlpool pool of immorality the tribune reporter describes her as follows foll olys she site is within a few months of being eighteen in years she is slender lias ii as blue eyes and her ter face twice observed I would bo be re regarded added as intellectually beautiful her ifer hair is that indescribable color that is too dark for blondo and too aig lighter brunette there is r nothing in feature or movement that would indicate the un governable over passion for oriental pleasures which eho she lias this wretched woman nroman once the light and the idol of a pure and happy household fell in the snares ofa of a seducer but instead of regret and remorse over the lost virtue she site gloried in it and deliberately sank lower and lower in the scale ale of moral depravity she became a streetwalker plying her profligate profession for a while unknown to her parents c n ts when the horrible truth dawned upon them they chided her they entreated her to forsake the perilous path of sin they threatened her but all to no avail she disappeared a P suddenly and only after long searching the police found her in a house of ill repute whence she had to be removed with force she was taken homo home again all the time protesting against lier ter restraint and confinement last february she escaped from the paternal al roof and went to gunnison where she became a common creature in a dance lance hall it was from bad to worse and to the worst with her in these few months at last her mother learned of the shameful career of her daughter followed her had her arrested and brought back to denver where they arrived arrived the tile one resolved to sin again if she could and the tile other resolved to save from further degradation if possible the tile youthful devotee of debauchery has been taken to an institution of refo reformation rma in st louis but there is little liopo hope that sho she can call be restored to th the path of virtue for in four months I will be of age she said and then I can call do as I please then I shall I aall tako take care of myself in just the way I have started in but dreadful as is this case of depravity it ig is exceeded in horror by another case of sexual aberration it is the story of an all old man and his thirteen years old daughter who have been living in criminal intimacy for months the reports of the suspicious couple are numerous us and of a most shocking cli character arac that the old man was continually on the street with the tile girl that in aug houses where ere I t rw was a tf am tj t they had been guilty of ibe most improper conduct that they had been found by the police in the lowest drinking saloons the tile father trying to get the girl intoxicated and other fea features of an all appalling character it was found that the hoary reprobate occupied one room with only one bed with his girl a and lid ashe paid as 18 much as 16 per month for the could not be poverty which prevented him f from rom hiring more convenient and decent lod hodg bugs all the tile features of the af at fairs are of a roost most hideous aspect and the whole po oil o of west denver deliver where the old bruto brute has been living is said to bo be agitated about it and investigation by the police authorities has been in instituted titu hero wo have in ono one lay day three most dreadful crimes murder prostitution and incest the record no doubt could bo be swelled if the tile hidden bidden rottenness rotte iiii esa were uncovered and laid bare but the cases of which we have been abl able only to give faint outlines warrant warra nt our previous ous assertion that tile christian clergymen of denver deliver certainly laglye enough wickedness right at home h orno on which to test the efficacy of their reformatory zeal |