Show PERSECUTION V MORMONSI Shameful Outrages In South I Carolina V F CHURCHES BURWED I CONVERTS WHIPPED f j Local Authorities Powerless to Stop I V 1 the Reign of Lawlessness State Officials Interfered and Twen V tyfive Men Were Held Por Trial How Two Girls Held a Mob of Eighty Armed Men at Bay Elders El-ders Have Made Many Converts and Prominent People Are Threat < enefl By the White Cappers More Trouble Is Expected V I V V Special to The Herald Columbia S C Sept 1 Bor two mont s there have been clacfiKS between be-tween the citizens of the country districts dis-tricts of Fairfield and Kersraw counties coun-ties and the Mormons who have established estab-lished strcrgsr hold here than any tiiere in SouWi < Carolina or in fact in this pant of the south Qu ± e a number I of elders were in that section rom time I to time but Morris Wilson and Henry j I i Berwhajn ira the only or es known to have voken up tihe4r I resldsnee there I Tinfe firjt trouble bean when a con fersnce was heM at the > iormon church i In Fairfleld There Yere several visit Lct eaeirs and hjradreds of converts from the neiiijib0rili pd were encani ed around the ciimrch V V During the night the building was bucnd to the ground by irjndiiries A few days latfrr a V temporary olurch building was burned and varninffs were r Oied on the doors of a house where visiittnc lonmonG were sayins acontiactoiriviio was imported to build a brick cduroh was run out of the cooirjrv and tiheilc miens have been unable to get their church rebuilt The feelIng be veen ffte residents manyot whom had become converts to Mcimonlm becamfe very bitter Crowds of masked men rode about the I county in daylight warning and tfareat enlng needle GtispeOled of friendliness to the Mcnnpns At nlsht white caps I visited iaveiirs and three men were severey vhipr > ed They then V hunted for tne elders witfr tie ttircat to lynch tlhem The local jwilior ci are impotent The governCT Was appealed to and complaint com-plaint ws lodged vith tiie Dostofllce I department a poElmaster being one of these threatenl I V V At ths insunce cfthe srVernor the torrrjy jranerai andfefate t solicitor begun be-gun 1mvestautioi i Alembera of the mob tihneateneij v ngeance e If com Dlaints were made ic the authorities ouit under tiha pTOte ion of he state affidavits were mca fu and the arrst of 20 men follow ed Y V The preHTninary I he ring in Ridcreway = wag attended by fhe statesf hlElheruh prcsecutins officers Five separate cases were brxKitit by Robert Eosler Alger non Eacilzr I William Colllne Sam Bradham and Jake Freeman V V The difendantsicharged tteMcrmons HvlBh improper conduct ioutirds the women converts u On the other hand many witnesses testified that the morality mo-rality of the sectituvhad bean improved stuns the Mormcn gained a following Twentyfive V rncludins several leading farmers weire bound over for trial at the senerai sessions Court meets In two weeks Two daughters of Samuel Bra hnm were alone in their harm when a mob of 80 armed men came in search of two elders Graying there Each girl took a shctjrun and held the cursing men at bayWhen When the house J was later searched the elders had escaped The girls said they would Eurelv fin ny shot to Mil IZ the mob had crowded on them More trouble is expected I V It is not believed i the prisoners will be convicted by n county Jury |