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Show MLWOFTrF I TOLDj 1 Deed Recorded Past Week May II Tell Story of Murder I Will Out. I PATRIARCH MAY RAVE ' TO EXPLAIN TO ELDERS j Temple Worker Dies and Transfer Trans-fer of Property Occurs Shortly Short-ly Before Death. The old maxim that murder will oat, that death oft reveals secrets that can never be learned during life, is proved more often in Utah than anywhere else in the world. This, of course, is due to iihe fnct that there are more skeletons skele-tons in homes in Utah than anywhere; moro heartbroken women than anywhere any-where else, when population is taken into consideration. This is traeeable to tho fact that an anti-polygamy manifesto man-ifesto was issued by the churcn September Sep-tember 24, 181)0. Since then it is alleged al-leged that polygamous marriagea havo not been countenanced -by the church, as it has also been alleged that no polygamous po-lygamous marriages havo occurred. Yet The Tribune, in its issue of April j 25, printed a list of ninety-sfx polyga-mist-8 who had taken "wives since the manifesto. Sunday, Mny 1, Tho Tribune printed a, special telegram from Manti, which Bkowed conclusively, because it was admitted ad-mitted "hv thf rtliiinli fliaf Prnc,'ri4- i Anderson of tho Manti temple had performed per-formed a polygamous marriage in the Mnnti temple November 9, 1909; that I he did tins after ho had been warned that the marriage which ho afterwards I performed was illegal. Miles A- Rom-ncy Rom-ncy was the polygamist whom President Pres-ident Anderson married to a plural wife. Exposures by Tho Tribune forced I tho church to excommunicate Romney, an nbsoluto admission thai the charges mado by The Tribuno were true. Taylor Pleaded Guilty. It will bo remembered that one .To- ? scph E. Taylor, a five or aix-ply po- lygamist, had been tried and pleaded 6 guilty to a charge of unlawful co- ff habitation on November 13, 1899, in I the third district court, and was sen- tenced on November 22 of the same year to pay a fine of $150 or iinpris- onment for 150 day3. He paid tho i fine. This was moro than nine veara after the manifesto had been issued. . On July 30, 1909, this same five or j six-ply polygamist, Joseph E. Taylor, I sent a communication to Thc Tribune. 1 wherein ho offered to pay $1000 if The S Tribune would cite a caso of plural 9 marriage, sinco tho manifesto of 1890.. that had tho sanction of tho president i of the Mormon church. He worded his letter, or rather the high ccclesiast who wroto it for him, very adroitl-, so as to H bo ablo to always sneak out when H proof of polj'gatnous mnrriages wero H i produced because ho knew it would bo H ; impossible, owing to tho fact that the H 1 contracting pnrties would porjnro thorn- ' selves rather than show that they had tho sanction of tho church. H Of course, Joseph E. Tavlor would H not dare openly to take a plural wife. B The law is against it. And this leads to a story. 1 Here Is the Story. H - On May 2, 1910. thcro died in the H L. D. S. hospital Rachel Susan Davis. ( Her residence, according to tho death H certificate on file in the office of tho H board of health of Salt Lake City, was given as 814 East First .avenue, Thn H information of her death was givtm by H J. E. Taylor, whoso residence is given ns 2-17 East First South. This might bo said to be his official residence. H Rnchol Susan Davis wag a worker in tho Temple. Her father was Mosei Davis. Ho died Mnrch 15. 1909. He H owned tho property occupied by Rachol H Susan Davis, and where sho lived for H I seven years up until tho timo of her H roinoval to tho hospital, where she died H This proporty, which is doscribod in H tho deed oh "commencing five rods H east of northwest corner lot 3, east H two and onc-hnlf rods, south five rods. H west two and 0110-half rods, north five rods, to place of beginning." This 'H proporty was deeded to Rachel Davis, H according to the date of tho deed, Sop- toinber 1, 1900. Her father was the irrnntor and the consideration was $1. :H This deed was recorded March 15, 1909. It wns tho gift of a father to his Deed Is Recorded. h On Mnrch 31, 1909, just sixteen dav3 IH after the deed cited was recorded, an- 11 ! othor dcod covering tho same prop-erty prop-erty was made. This deed was a war- 11 :ranty deed; tho grantor wns Rachel S. Davis, the grnntoe, Joseph E. Tavlor, iM and the consideration $1: This deed SH wns recorded May 2, .1910, tho dnv of 11 her death. She died at 1:45 p. in. Tho r SM deed was recorded at 10i30 a, m. IH Tho question therefore conies up-Why up-Why was this property conveyed to H Joseph L. Taylor, unless the reputation thnt sho bore among her neighbors for tho past several years (hat she was tho plural wife of Joseph E. Tavlor married to him sfneo tho manifesto f ' Rachel Susan Davis has a brother liv- M ing. It is understood thnt thev quar-relcd quar-relcd over this alleged marriage. One thing is eortain. that Elder Tavlor. who M is not now 111 the undprtaking'business arranged all for tho funeral, includ-ing includ-ing tho death certificate, which is in his own hnndwriting, regardless of tho brother. And ho has her property. It may bo that Patriarch Taylor is like JM Elder Joseph Silver ho does not want little things like plural mnrriages to bo mentioned, but they will come up re-gnrdlcsH. re-gnrdlcsH. This is tho story which Ihe preamble led up to. And thcro you are, Maybe tho patriarch can "ex- |