| Show TEE MISSIONARY MURDERS j J j 1i It has eeemed Impossible to obtah I V details of the killing on Sunday of V I tt5 1 f Mormon elders in IJawis county V di j H i Tennessee the scene of the mar i HI 1 rJ ders being remote from a telegraph office It will probably be a day 03 V LIis i rt j i two before all the facts are ccelvcd V n j 11 t In our telegraph columns will b < V Kfi i found a dispatch from Nashville it 1 affair Tin r t h i reference to the bloody > other information received 1S Pt jti only 1 i jr k i 1 t contained in the following froo V j m i Chattanooga Elder John Morgan L jf I U prealdent of the Southern State fe ti mission V I V I V t Ii f Received the following lelepnm from I Ii V d Kimball Eiders tiibba and Berry and V I a H two of Condors Eons were killed at JonI Jon-I i dors residence on Cane Creek AUgust 1 V I j1 V V 30th by masked men Elders Jones and ft ft1 V Thompron escaped We take coffin and VV V j 11 t 1 V tr j will take the bodies to Salt Lake V F Ii J j V B H R03nRlS j J Elder John H Gibbs was a resident V JI II V resi-dent of Paradise Cache County k I and a brother of George F Grfcbs oi f M I I this city Eider W T Berry was of V J n I j J Kanarra Iron Co They tuespoken V q I j m j of as intelligeatearnest moral y ounp ii Ii I man who enjoyed excellent repu > i1 V I 1 tatlons in their respective neighborhoods V V H I 11 neighbor-hoods It need hardly ba said that il V their death will be mourned leeplyj r V H 1 t t not only by their relatives and immediate V 1 1 im-mediate friend but by the Mormon V I I V I J I i Vj 1 i people generally Past experience V V I in the history of persecas t f IJ i I tions and outrages Is not encouraging 1 1 I V I en-couraging to the belief that i V the murderers will be brought to lj V V V4J 1 j UV I justice It will be noticed that the J telegram reads Hmson of the attacking V l I at-tacking patty who was killed was V i V V one of the moat prominent citizens V i V V of Hickman County Doubtless V f his fellow assassins were his social V equals and associates and their rl I I I r crime will be winked at if not applauded If V j I I ap-plauded by the ruling element of II V V the community That such deeds Fi V It H can be done without arousing a V righteous indignation in community V 1 I commu-nity that will assert itself in bringing V I V bring-ing the guilty to speedy justice is a i I terribly severe reflection upon the V V V j V V regard for law and order in any r f I V county or State The people of V Hickman an4 Lewis Counties V V and for that matter of Tennessee W t V i would stand higher in the estimation I of their countrymen if they were to V f manifest a disposition to apply the V V l 3aw to the murderers of these inno V Mormons If cent unoffending young V V f > whose only offense was in sacrificing r the comforts homeand journeying V 5 many hundreds of miles enduring VV V i V V hardships and suffering privation V in order to instruct their felow V V beings in what all must admit they sincerely believed to be the truetgos V V pel of Christ |
