Show YOUNGS AWUt GRiME 7 Head of Mormon Church in East Makes Statement REGRETS NOTORIETY GIVEN Denies That Blood Atonement Is Built of the Church Further han Belief of All Christians That Christs Blood Atones for the Sins of Man Declares Religion Had Nothing to Do With Crime Rebukes Re-bukes Mother and Father for Attempts At-tempts to Cast Reproach on Church TRIBUNE SPECIAL h New York Sept 25John Hj Mc Quarrle head of the Mormon church in the Enat tonight gave out a statement state-ment concerning the YoUng murder Mr McQujirrle denies that blood atonement IB n tenet of the church further than the belief of all Christians p Chris-tians that Christs J lood atonen for the sino of man We regret very much flays Mr McQuarrle the notoriety this sad Incident In-cident has given to us and the church to which we belong still we neither fear the most careful scrutiny of our lives nor Investigation of our doctrine for we arc here to reflect the gospel In both So far EB wo ore personally concerned con-cerned we feel well treated by the authorities au-thorities and the public proas We recognize rec-ognize the right and duty of the public press in dealing with crlme to present the acts thai the guilty may be punished f pun-ished and to present conditiOns lending to the act in order that rtrcvcntatlvcs 4 will be administered and that the censure cen-sure may be JustIn Just-In relation to the statement of relaton Young mother that religious affiliation affilia-tion had something to do with his act I I wish to say that the heart of every Latterday Saint lllla with sympathy for both parents But It Is haidVy fair when they have failed for twenty years to surround the son with the proper influences in-fluences to try to cast uny reproach on the organization of which they happen J to bft members or from which they J may jive Itlulraxvn I ought to be sufficient refutation of the statement that the young man was Impelled to his act by the Mormon religion to pay that among the thousands thou-sands ot missionaries constantly laboring labor-Ing no such sin has ever been traced to I any of them That Hcopor Young may have discussed dis-cussed this Idea l and perhaps formed very erroneous Ideas In ielation to It ns he did on ninny other subjects Is very probable but It must be evident to nil thinking men who become acquainted ac-quainted Itli his career that this Idea did not prompt him to commit this terrible deed When his 1rrj iKTevhrvviJditTrill f be apparent to all that he could commit such a crime and be associated in such a connection only because of his complete com-plete lack of moral and spiritual development de-velopment rather than being prompted to It by an over religious zeal Mr McQuarrle says he helped Young financially from time to time and concludes con-cludes This Is another of those Btmngcly sad cases too often met withIn with-In our social life where very worthy and noble parents arc brought to grief by a wayward eon But we should at least be charitable In our judgment of the Innocent vho are affected In fact we could well afford to accept the advice ad-vice of the master and judge not |