Show SHERIFF ABBOTT TELLS ABOUT APOSTLE TAYLOR Mormon Official Reputed to Have Taken Wives Since the Manifesto G Senate Committee Wil Will Probably Continue the Investigation in I ISalt Sal Salt lake Lak July 18 4 4 Sal SpecIal to The Th Herl Herald 4 hearing is up il ii II 4 th the general of th the closing hour hours 0 of c a and w when taY toda s 4 sio session closed I It ws s wih with an Indefinite adjournment ad and furr further met Ings subject to can call of Chairman Bur Burrows 4 I It I hi expected a member of te the committee state stated toa today tt that diat ly after the St Louis convention of t the committee 4 to take part In 10 a local oal Utah investigation wi will pt to St Salt Lake CHI CHIs Cit Citso s so tha that the heig hearing cnn can b be rem resumed mere abt about July 18 iS It 1 4 the that others Burrows and Dubi Dubole wl will go to Ut an and abut abouL 4 1 4 4 Senator Burr Burrows to today rea read a leter letter fr from Heywood saying 4 tt that it lad had been n i bl to loat locate eight wt witnesses fOt ci 4 whom hoH hp he had given iven subpoenas He a also r reaL a letter th the sub substance 4 stance ot of which has ben been in The Her Herald fr from Predent Smith In regard to bi his Inability to procure the attendance of Jo John Hen Henry 4 Smith Ger George e M W r Merrill John W Taylor and X P F Co CoIe Cow Ie Icy In the letter President Smith said As s ti this I Is a political mat matter r rand I and not ii religious dut duty devolving up upon them or li me I am pel powerless L tu effect mOe more than thau morl moral In the premises A Prominent member or of te the elUI committee rte si said t ted r 1 eon n 4 sider th t the p have 4 protestants proven Evey every Carp charge thy they nt 4 4 J i Smoot certain and the non church ad and I 1 rr regard hi his u as absolute 4 4 I A Apri April E Ab Ab V V bott sherif sheriff of Davis county Utah wa was before the the senate corn com on privileges and elections to toda today da day in tl the Smoot investigation He was examined In reg regard to Apostle Aple I Jon John W V Taylor wh who he sl said is re reputed re to have five wives Two o othe the these wives are neighbors or of Mr Ab Abbt Abbott bt bott in Farmington UtAh Thee These wives are known as Neti Nettle ole who ho has five children ran raning rang lag ing fro from 1 11 to 2 years and Nellie Neme Todd who has six children ranging from roni 16 to 2 al all of whom are J recognized as Apte Apostle Taylors chi chil children dren Two wives or of Apostle Taylor Sid said Mr Ir Abbott Abbott are Rhoa Rhoda and Roxey who are abut about 23 or 24 4 years jears o of age I It was reported two to years ag ago that they had bad been married to Ta Tay lr her One was a working for Nettle Wet Vo Je Icy and th the other io for Nele Nellie Todd bh both a as domestics I Marred Married Since Manifesto Senator Overman wanted to know If thir their ages had been given correct correctly at Abut about 24 years Th The witness sid said h he believed that to b be abut about their I ages age ageThen Then they must he have ben been lar mar rie ned ator since th the manifest sl agid the sen senator senator r I dOt dont kW know I have ave tol told you al alI witness I know abut about the them responded Ue the Smiths Ler Letter Attorney Taylor pac placed In the thc ree rec record ord a leter letter written t to Senor Senator But Bur rows by Predent President Joseph F Smith respecting his inability to have Mor Mormons mom mons come to Washington t to tt testy t y before the committee He 8 says S that John Henr Henry Smith M W Merrill arId and Gege George Teasdale a are i ill ad and that John JohnV JohnW W V Taylor and M F Cowley were un an willing voluntarily to testify President Smith concludes his ls Ite as follows olos As this is a political matter no not a a religious duty devolving upon them or t me I IU sin powerless t to exert lees more than moral suasion In te the prem premIses Mr Tayler sd said he be ha bad nothing more mor morto to ofer offer at th the present tm time Char Charm Chair Chairman m man Burrows stated ta that oher other wit their here arid and andI ne flosses were on wa way that he woul would adjourn the hearing sub subject I jt to call ad and would notify al all per persons sons conce concerned I It Is unde an anI I other session on and th the final oe one before I the hid held tomorrow go goes t to Ut will be beheld |