| Show ME SIDE shall it be malicious envy or justice editor ot the appeal which I 1 now mate is not to ism gentile ism or any other iam I 1 appeal to sound judgment to minds free from prejudice malice and venom the article which appeared in the provo american I 1 feel it my duty in justice to myself and and others to answer it is not my intention however to waste time or contaminate ta my pen in rehearsing the filthy slush which that article contained any further than to show up its lies and the spirit from which they emanated the writer began with an outrage upon the salvation army have they anything whatever to do with my acts or worda I 1 loft that organization a year last aup hence they have part or parcel in the matter andin consequence should not be assailed but it shows the outcome of a black heart and a spirit of malice that I 1 was ever a captain in the army 13 a lie to start with but the higher the rank the fi reater the fall I 1 suppose hence a lie would do if the would not suit that I 1 ever blew a cornet or any other instrument on the streets of provo is also false eo garding the chappies chip pies I 1 wish the writer to understand that the ladua in are no chappies chip pies but in their blives and acts lust as honorable and upright as he or any belonging to him that I 1 was an ex methodist is not true I 1 never was in any wy connected with the which is another falsehood but I 1 presume the writer like some others would tell a lie rather alian the truth if it would favor his side that I 1 am a mormon is true and perhaps there is mora behind that fact than the american expressed the statement that mrs blomster berg took me as false as the heart that invented it it was and not his wife who took me there first and last that we were up until midnight hugging and kissing is not true it is dalae mr testimony in court that he saw his wife bitting in ray lap was denied in the testimonies that followed and I 1 still deny it as a base scan falsehood the writer mentioned the time of my sickness when his lifs anil mother received me as aud brother in tha family as the time when e tion called for the fact is everything testified to was long altar that time and after 1 was alle to leave my bed now comes the main point in top hers tebrin ony in which he swore on the stand to statements as untrue as the devil could and the ameri cans representation of it is just aa black and vile it was rn the night hi question that aked a ked my forgiveness gi veness before retiring to rest was long after midnight it was some time after this when mr not his wife as he stated came to my bed and solicited as if for his life for me to come to his bedside that lie and his wife might talk to m this was the time v han a reconciliation was called for to his many requests my answer was no I 1 told him everything will be alright in the morning but this would not do after be went back to his bad he still pressed ace to come and begged his wife to ask mo but she said A 0 holger you have caused the and you must settle it air blomster berg gave me no rest datil I 1 trent after I 1 got there lia expressed hie sorrow again and again he told me to lay down on tha aids of the bed aud put something over me that I 1 liht not take cold baying there is no harm in it charlie and BO long as I 1 am hera its alright that I 1 saw either berg or big arife his bed except their faces true that aay clothes were moved Is also false I 1 took a quilt and put over me and took a shawl and put on my feet and laid down with my head resting on my hand this ia the truth in the case and what other statements have been made in or out of court are balsa falsa jf there is any wrong in aliis who ia to blame if a father compels his child to steal and then handa it over to th law who ie the culprit the father or the hid aiom stelbera ster bera told alie court that he went right off to felcey which can believe if you want to but ho told me that he did not sleep a wank lie was so worried which is the most likely story of the two 1 shall public to the letter berg got from me waa explained before the court both its spirit ana purpose which showed the foolishness of introducing it as testimony that mrs blom ever wrote a letter to adv mormon office regarding me for time or and canant be the australia nonsense told by sirs schoenberg was denied as a misrepresentation of the truth blomster berg testified return from cli coroia in the presence of his wife and myself and another person that he did not believe me guilty of anything immoral he said tho sime to others ia provo also to walter cox before he beut to california and yeton the courthen cour the aenied it S s dr hannberg testified that mrs went to him six years ago regarding herself and three or four times since yet her husband know nothing of it strange if all that mr testified to was true how does it compare with the coarse he t ok why did he come to me and ask me to go lack to his place while be went to california ahat was his testimony to mr Liddiard when he went to him with regard to my going to his place all thi awas before he went away and I 1 have never been thera educe his return the very position of the man shows things in their true light mr berga testimony to me was that be had been a hard case in hid life and not what lie should have been to his wife he also told me there had never A day passed over his head for twenty cars but what he bad damned the day he was born hia wife and ui others story will speak for itself but I 1 have given alie truth in regard to my own experience peri ence ohavo my faults and failings aa every one else lias but I 1 am not guilt of the charges that have been brought against me CHAS editor of the having read an article in the american on the Blom case wherein they pain tup mr charles as being the means of alie trouble between mr and his wife I 1 wish to make a statement to the public relating what passed between mr berg and myself on the sunday morning belore he started to california came to my house to see me I 1 was not at home but he met me on the sidewalk outside he said that he was going to california the next day and lie expected to be gone for about six months that the doctors had advised him to go for his health and while he was gone he wanted some ono to live with his folks and he had asked chas to stay there but that he would not consent to leave my house without Blomster berf came to me and found if I 1 was willing Elom then asked me if I 1 was willing for tre folks while he was away iu california had been staying at his house during his sickness and they had waited upon him night and day and he had mr to be an honest upright and virtona man and a man in whom he could trust and ho would be so glad if I 1 would give my consent I 1 told him that so far aa I 1 was concerned the whole matter rested between him and if he wanted him there and wa willing to go I 1 had no objection to offer mr felt so thankful and said that ha could now go away and feel eliat all would be well while tie was gone I 1 desire to relate how mr came to my bouso to live he had got 0 er his sickness that ha bad passed through at Blomster bergs and had commenced to enquire for work some parties recommended him to come to me he did so and asked me to give him a job he told me what his circumstances were and I 1 told him to come to my bouse and 1 would board him and give him work for a while posting up my accounts he cams and he had been there one week when mr blom ederberg eter berg came for hina now according to the americans account tho charges made by blomster berg before the cart against were all alleged to have occurred previous to his coming to me and his going to california the question may be asked when did mr tell the truth was it before the court or before me and if ho told the truth before the court as the american has it what kind of a man is he when after knowing what had taken place between his lifs and to come to me and ask for such a man to go and live in tha same house with his wife during his absence I 1 will asay that mr has worked at my house posting books and cutting wood and doing pother work for about three and has worked with me here in salt lake about four months and I 1 have found him to be a L gentleman in his language manners and actions as far aj I 1 have SAML LIDDIARD contractor and builder SALT CITY dec 11 1883 |
