Show T T ora OF A I 1 about three weeks ago somebody placed before the editor of the oo 00 PEN a communication ac al 4 companied by what purported to be some blank forms of affidavits setting forth the offense of seduction without naming patronymics ica the note intimated or assumed that a de facto judge and a young lady were the implicated parties and asked what would be the effect of the bunk blank affidavits pro properly P filled out outs and placed in the hands of ron P IL emerson to be sent to washington tho the inference is obvious the note further intimated that wo we could make acquainted with the fact as set forth by aba anonymous scribe and requested that we crould then return all in an envelope already provided and directed to the number of a box ogden postoffice poat post office after bamily exa examining wining tho the note and the forms arms we immediately enclosed aad and maced them ae as requested this matter was not mentioned t to a foul soul to our recollection nor was wea any use evidently ble and questionable I 1 a os 1 ija ip forman forro alfon conveyed by the affidavits or the accompanying note until k certain rumor reached our ears as berel hereinafter i cafter set forth we looked upon this thle attempt to covey jae roys charge in such a manner ae se of 11 notice we coa coil lectured taftt jt t as pp perhaps an anti mormon subterfuge deeded qed to getus get us into libel or other tie ties or we imse ea that P perhaps ram some federal scrub in jeopardy wanted to originate a mormon elander slander to divert attention from some painful and w AMP v ire truth h alt with k the honorable name 11 aerson appended to it abhat wa alie the slander was waa exploded the ex judge might be exploded also it is sometimes deemed an advantage by some peo pie old to start a lie about vw put it into the mouths of 0 their enc ene mies and then explode it with great noise and ana call ft i a mormon aspersion these were the mere opinions that flitted across our mind as we sealed scaled the euve envelope lope and returned the above described anonymous note and blank affidavits as requested qt ested and then wo thought nothing more of ortho the matter for perhaps ten days or two weeks n ten days or two weeks r is perhaps about eix six days ago a regular reporter brought to our notice a rumor to the effect that a federal judge had seduced a youia a g lady of ogden the reporter was directed to investigate this ugly flying report as it did A great injustice to an estimable lady if it was false in thinking over the matter the anonymous notes and blank affidavits were called to mind it looked as if the rumor dovetailed with them A newspaper man must not be behind and there is once in an age a grain of truth in idle report the editor of the OGDEN HEBALD HERALD afterwards chanced to meet a legal friend or enemy of the scandalized judge and ask asked edthe the usually well advised lamb of the law ithe if be knew or had bad heard anything about the run rumored lored matter he bad had not and if we err not in our conjecture be took pains to find out whether anybody else in the saloons or on oti the street cornera corners had bad or had bad not heard of the matter he ile also took the rumor to the besmirched judge who was indignant of course not on hie his own account not no I 1 no noil 11 but on account of the young lady and the judge as wo we only imagine sent vent the attorney back t to pump the editor at least if the judge did not a eeoc e nd h biro i M ba back OL 1 at any rate the attorney attorn oy came and visited our office and tried to pump fis us further about the rumor respecting the alleged s seduction presumably to make us open our mouth and tell all we knew more freely he reminded us that the jude judge in question qu giop could C call a 11 us into 1 nt 0 cobart c whenever erbe he chose and send ue us to prison and left us to infer that hi his honor might do it too before ho he left the territory or general McClern aud was golpl gop to washington and well the juddo might remain in utah after all anil anti then wp vp would catch it if wed i d not look out Hs his honor flonor resent anything personal abl oh no that Is hb was human and might BO bat if he could get oven even in some other name why then if we look out aleo AW the judge wanted a divorce the atto attorney rogy say say just this but bla his exact words w which w ija e forget conveyed just such an idea and before this attorney rounded out his pumping interview inter yiew he be sud deply became conscious that one or two of our mir oce oace amfin ata gre overhearing hf his remarks and apparently 4 alarmed ho himself and incontinently withdrew in These the sequence quance must remain to be written but the next act in this ibis eventful farce farco began yesterday rilay when a deputy marshal subpoenaed the editor of this paper to appear before the grand jury for some incomprehensible reason the besmirched judge set the inquisitors to trace jhb one unar edited unpublished and floating rumor when it ie ia probable that from ten to five hundred similar floating reports respecting spec ting different parties partie s have been in circulation more or less during the past few months in this city of course the judge ia is working up thie this sensation by an official investigation which gives to the rumor the only tangibility it appears to haro havo had ad all OB on account of the young lady only what a chivalric judicial act that would appear to be even if a grass widower bad had performed it but how beatific be and romantic an act it ie is for a judge I 1 it proves his nobility and 40 all bis his enemies gentiles and s pf cou course ree it does but then why not set t the he grand fury jury on to the trail cfall of all the nui nerous rumored r scandals that have lately been in in circulation hero here effecting the virtue of other respectable respect ablo young ladies no answerl but quite another thing ie is very gratifying we are told that numerous witnesses who have lave heard 40 or repeated this rumor now in course of legal 11 investigation have ha ve already pan been before embre the in in qui nd the tiie deputy marshals are enjoying a picnic of feea with out 1 1 0 difficulty when the deputies cani ani get abl cof cabi tation vic victims it would ossig y be aa ait abrec agreeable i able and cert certainly a profitable fit im employment io to subpoena witnesses to help the grand jury run down any casual flimsy and un founded rumors that ma kaftal in all the history of cedore we have ney r what seems in in our opinion to be sucha lucli a pu puerile i erile suspicious and minine ein ne affair let us suppose for the tiie salce of argument that the in vesti gation of this utterly unfounded rumor should lead to the discovery of an actual seduction in another quarter what then the grand jury could do nothing but smell of the de tails because there is not a law for abe punishment 1 of a seducer con gress has taken pains to hedge the honorable polygamist about wl with th legal penalties but the Ci gentile entile be ducer cerand du and libertine escaped ite its no now tice finally the reputation pure lady or gentleman who haa has lived a life above reproach can bo be injured by a mere flying rumor to which no well disposed or honorable or even decent person will give credence for a moment |