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Show I CLTJFF'S MARRIAGE. Fact Brought Out at Washington Was ; Well Known at Provo. When George Reynolds, president of the seventies and superintendent of the Sunday-schools oC the Mormon church, said under oath Monday that he had no real knowledge of his daughter's polygamous marriage to Benjamin Clurf. Jr., ho admitted ad-mitted that ho knew less than most of tho papulation of Provo and Salt Lako City. Ihis plural marriage has been a matter of common gosBlp over Binco its celebration Ln-?xir?"i&TC0 year3 slnce; " Is said to be Cluff's third alliance. n in?3 t05 tt lonS t,mo Presldont of m? rwlf un,Vcrslt'. and then or the Brigham Young academy, Provo. S !?f8 ?8ed t0 !c"uro there on the iki1 PoiBam " Penrose lectured on tho i ic'. ,Ic'nold? o younger daughter was K then taking a kindergarten course, Physi-) Physi-) cally tho young woman was not attrac-j attrac-j tlvor but her manner was engaging and her personality very pleasant. She was known as a very lovable young woman, bno and Cluff camo tp know one another In tho academy, where, Mormon witnesses aro now basy telling tho Senate Committee Commit-tee on Privileges and Elections, polygamy was never talked of. fa Cluff was sent to Mexico ns head of an expedition whose purpose was to urovo the truth of the Book of Mormon. Ho and his expedition woro gono for somo tlmo when ho departed ho left at least one wife In Provo and a large family of children, chil-dren, tho eldest 15 years of age. It was h . . 1liatof oC commn talk In Provo that Cluff had another wife In that pluco. At any rate, he had ono and a family. Ho wenr to Mexico. Miss -Reynolds went also. They met and they were married mar-ried under tho ceremonial of tho Mormon church. And when Cluft returned tho patter was discussed on Provo'a atrocts in the homes of the little town, and by pupils and teachers of tho Brigham Young academy, Mrs. Cluff No. 2. or No. 3 as the case may be. stayed In Mexico, Provo pcoplo and Mormons generally said that prosecuTioii" l QV0,cl ,lkcnhood Then Cluff left Brigham Young academy. acad-emy. He went back to Mexico to cntfaee in some manufacturing enterprises. Ho woh a man of common speech and vorv ordinary learning, somewhat coarso In hfc ways, but an excellent exccutlvo and a rare man to get money for enterprises. Everyone said ho would do well in Mexico It was, of course, recognized as a 'tact among his old neighbors that he had eono there to Join his plural wife. During tho lest year that wife has borno Him a, child. Mrs. Cluff No. 2. or No. 3. as tho caso may be. was well known in Salt Lake City when she was Miss Reynolds, and warm-m warm-m ly esteemed. The same Is truo of her In m Provo. And It Is only fair to say that m lhre are many Mormons, as well as Gen tiles, who have been saddened by tho Intelligence In-telligence that sho married In polygamy. |
