| Show elder richards fate with the company of immigrants that camo from the southern states on saturday were tho valise books clothing etc in charge of an elder of elder alma P richards of milton morgan county of choso whoso fato there is now scarcely scar coly any room for doubt the investigation made has about definitely settled it that he has been foully murdered and that tho crime was committed in meridian mississippi in the first week of august last it is tho opinion of some that he was carried away and concealed that ho baill lives as a prisoner in the land of his enemies but most of choso engaged in endeavoring to find some of him have come to the conclusion that he has met his death at the hands of a mob as it is not in the line of such assemblages in the boutt to treat a disciple of christ with euch leniency those engaged in obtaining information regarding the disappearance of elder richards Kic hards have themselves met with ahe greatest opposition especially when the object of their inquiries was known or suspected on the ath of november last they were in the town of meridian Meri dien where they obtained an important clue to the treatment he had received and who were the guilty parties soon aa intimation ti of the purpose of their visit leaked out and the result was that they were waited on by a mob who compelled them to leave town forthwith on another occasion a few days later several elders returned to meridian where they were driven out by a mob numbering about five hundred persons thero is no redress or protection from the officers because the victims of such outrages are mor mons news |
