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Show Keward Withdrawn. On the 23d of October, ISOti, tho day after Dr. Robinson was murdered, large rewards were offered for tho discovery and conviction con-viction of the perpetrators of the crime, President Brigham Young personally per-sonally offering five hundred dollars. In view of the facts that subornation and perjury threatening the lives of innocent men is a current topio of conversation, that the course of certain officials is open to grave suspicion to say the least, and that it is publicly reported re-ported that a boast has b:en openly made of men being purchasable to swear anything required against the Mormons, the continuation of the offer ol' a reward in such cases and under such circumstances is a serious matter. President Young, by public notice, withdraws the offer of reward made ffy him, having no desire to endanger tho lives of innocent men, an act which will meet the hearty approval of every sensible and just person. While men arc for sale at low figures, and courts and officials afford protection and shelter to them in tho perpetration of crime, all men who desire justice to prevail should unite in the strongest disapprobation of every thing that would ki.cp or put the power to do evil into iheir hands. |
