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Show UOIHOISTHREATEH 10 HANUENTILES Word of a Fierce Encounter Comes From Leifhbridge, Alberta, Canada. STORY IS PUBLISHED IN VICTORIA POST Trouble Is Started When a Mormon Mor-mon Girl Takes Gentile for Husband. In the issue of flic Evening Post of Victoria, B. C, of May 27 appeared tho following special on tho first page: T-rciTIinrttDGE. Alb., June. 1. A mob of thirty or forty .Mormons this afternoon mobbed and threatened to hang and severely se-verely handled three "Gentiles." two men and a woman, at Ma&rath, a Mormon Mor-mon settlement about twenty-two miles southeast of here. Tho matter arose from tho marriage a yoar or moro ago of 11 Mormon girl to a "Gentile," as the .Mormons call all non-members of .their church, which bars nil marriages of lis children to Gentiles. James Jnrclay, ono of tho men who was mobbed, declares was the cause of tho whole trouble. Rarclay and his wife, tho couple con-corned, con-corned, after their marriage lived happily hap-pily together in Calgary. .Mrs. Barclay, about llvo months ago. returned to hor mother's homo nl Magralh and intended In return to hor own homo In tho course of a week or two. Once back in Magrath, however, her parents and tho church determined de-termined to keep hor, and in splto of hor husband's entreaties, she refused to return re-turn to him. Today Barclay, accompanied by his sis-tor. sis-tor. Mrs. Boldorson of thin city, and a frlorul of Ban-lay's named Harrison, wont down to Magrath to urge his wife once again tn come bade to him. Sho refused. re-fused. Ho finally declared that if iho. would not come back ho would have, l is child and be proceeded to take too latter. lat-ter. If Mrs. Barclay wanted hor child she could go with him, ho declared. Sheriff Took Part. A mob sot together and Bar. -lay was shackled by a man who called himself "sheriff." Ho. his sister and Harrison were hauled before a magistrate, who gave orders that the cnlld was to bo returned re-turned to its mother, and that tho throe "Gentiles" quit tho place on tho first train. The throe wcro taken, handcuffed, to the depot by tho "sheriff." who meanwhile- had sworn In a deputy .sheriff In the regular American stylo. They ha.l been waiting in the waiting 100m somo time when the mob appeared. "Don't you over conic back here again." announced the leader, "or wo will hang you." "Wo will banc: them now." called out somo of tho mob: "cot a rope." Hopes, however, wore not brought, but tho mob rushed tho three "Gent ties." knocked them down, kicked and boat thoni. plastered them with osgs and throw Harrison through a window, by which tho. top of ono of his lingers was severed. Mrs. Bolclerson was also lougli-Iv lougli-Iv used. After satisfying their hunger for brutality, tho mob left, aud the thivo boarded tho passenger train which arrived ar-rived shortly after, and came to this oily. The sheriff, stood by and made 110 oifort to Interfere until towards the last. No arrests have so far boon mane. |