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Show IUilGJjs CAIIRCIT Witness Travels to Waifcjtca to Tell Sncct Ccm- cittcc lie Vteilcrely JcInj. : - . Perry 8. Heath ant wade an appointment appoint-ment at the office of The Salt Lake Tribune, Tri-bune, at which he told Mr. Heath the same story he had related to Messrs. Crltchlow and- Wilson. He declared that he had told no other person in regard to the marriage and that he had seen no one except Crltchlow and that was on the day he had received . the subpoena! , "Are you still satisfied that Smith married them?" asked Senator Dubois. Of course I don't know that be married mar-ried them, but I think he did," was the answer". The witness declared that the only persons in Utah who Knew that he was starting for Washington were the members mem-bers of his family, his brother-in-law and the United States Marshal. "Who told you of the ceremony on the high seas?" . "My wife said she was satisfied It took, place Just as related." "Any one else?" ; 1 cannot think of any others.- Senator Dubois Were you with Abraham Ab-raham H. Cannon before his 'death? "Through his entire Illness." "Where did he die?" "At my sister's house." "Was Lillian Hamlin there?" "Part of the time." "Has she a child?" . "Tes; a daughter." "What 1 her name?" "Marva." ' "Her last name?" w "Cannon.", The witness said that the child was re christened as the daughter of Abraham Abra-ham H. Cannon and treated as a sister sis-ter by others of Cannon's children. TASHINGTON, May 8. Angus M. Z Cannon, Jr.. son of Angus M. 2 Cannon, . former " president of ' the Salf Lake' stake of the Mormon church In Utah, traveled from Salt Lake City to Washington to inform the Senate Committee on Privilege ' and . Elections . that he had perjured himself In Informing prominent Gentiles In . Utah that President Joseph P. Smith I of the Mormon church had performed plural marriage ceremonies. Cannon, Jr., was a witness in the Smoot lnves-" lnves-" - tlgatlon. He said that he had told false stories in regard to President -Smith , marrying his cousin. Abraham H. Can-ncn, Can-ncn, to Lillian Hamlin, a fourth wife. His only excuse was that he had been . drinking and conceived the Idea that to tell such a story would be a good Joke on the Gentiles referred to, "as any-thing any-thing against the Mormons tickled . them all over." Members of the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections received a communication "several days ago- from E. B. Crltchlow of Salt Lake to the ef-feet ef-feet that Cannon would go on the stand and testify that 'Abraham H. Cannon and Lillian Hamlin were mar- - rled on the high seas between Los An--' geles and Catallna Island. , and that '" President Joseph F. Smith of the Mor- mon church, performed the ceremony. Mr. Crltchlow stated that Angus M. Cannon. Jr.. had said he was present and witnessed the ceremony. Consequently Conse-quently arrangements were made for the meeting today. Cannon on the Stand. After the witness had been sworn he was questioned by Mr. Tayler, counsel for the prosecution. In regard to the Incident The witness said that he knew .Abraham H. Cannon intimately as, they had been associated together In business. He said that Abraham had three wives at the time of his death in - the fall of 1891 but that there was an-' an-' ether wife he knew about He gave the ' names of the three wives as Sarah M. Jenkins. Wllbelmlna Cannon, sister of the witness, and Mary E. CroxalL Abraham. Cannon had children by all of them. "Did yon know Abraham to associate with a woman called- Lillian Hamlin?" asked Mr. Tayler. - "I knew he. took her. riding. 'He used my buggy." "Did you know he was engaged to ""herr "He did not say anything about that He said she had been engaged to his ... brother, David, who died on a mission r--to Germany. I never heard him say that he was engaged to her." .- Told Wilson of It. . "Did you tell E. W. Wilson of Salt ' Lake that you saw Abraham Cannon and Lillian Hamlin married?" "I think I did tell him." The witness stated that Wilson is well known In Salt Lake. Is cashier of the Commercial National bank and a gentleman of high standing. ... In response to questions, answered In the briefest of admissions, it was drawn from the witness that he had told Mr. Wilson within the last two weeks that in 1894 la Lob Angeles, ten or twelve Iersons chartered a vessel for Catallna . island, and that In the party, in addi-T addi-T tlon ,to himself, were Joseph F. 8mlth ' and' one of his wives; Abraham H. Can- non and. his wife. Wilhelmlna, sister to Z- the. witness; a man named Lang ford, ' - and Lillian Hamlin. After the boat bad gone, some distance from Los Angeles, member of the party, with two or .three exceptions, retired to the cabin, and there Joseph F. Smith married Cannon and Lillian Hamlin. The witness wit-ness said that after his sister. Cannon's Can-non's second wife, heard what was go-' go-' ing on, she "got angry and left the . - cabin." Repeated Original Story. 1 ' The witness under direct examination said that late in the day of which he .iad told the story to Wilson, he met ' Mr. Crltchlow and Mr. Wilson and he repeated substantially the same story. - When asked how he happened to tell the story In regard to the marriage, the Witness said: "Well. I had read the testimony which Mr. Smith gave in Washington and I told Mr. Wilson that I knew that Smith did know of polygamous polyga-mous marriages since the manifesto, because he had performed one himself." Mr. Tayler drew from the witness the fact that he also had telephoned to Claims It Was Hot Air. The witness In reply, to questions by Senator McCom&s, set a he had been drinking when he told the story about the marriage on the boat and he did it as a Joke on Crltchlow and Wilson, who wanted to see the Mormons' get the worst of It. He said that he had' never thought that the story would go far enough to result in his being subpoenaed sub-poenaed to Washington.. When the subpoena was served he said he told his brother-in-law that what he had been telling was all "hot air" and asked him to go to Wilson and Crltchlow Crltch-low and have 'the subpoena withdrawn. "Was it all "hot air about Langford and others mentioned as being on the boat?" asked Senator McComas.. The witness answered he thought he had given the facts right about the marriage, but he had not been present. He was asked if he thought the Joke was a good one on his dead cousin and others he had drawn into that tale, and, with some bitterness, answered: "I was thinking about Joseph F. Smith more than anything; else. He said he did not know anything about polygamous polyg-amous marriages since the manifesto and I knew that he did." Chairman Burrows took the witness severely to task for his failure to go to Wilson and Crltchlow and tell them he had told an untruth. Cannon had but one excuse, and that was that he had been drinking and was ill up to the time he went to the station to go to Washington. It was developed that the station Is not more than six blocks from the office of Messrs. Crltchlow and Wilson, and that he could have informed in-formed them of his story without trouble. Het Smoot and Richards. At the afternoon session Mr. Cannon said that he arrived here about 8 a. m. today and he met Senator Smoot soon afterward.. He said he spent about thirty minutes in all at Senator Smoot's office. He ' had , been directed to the Senate annex by a policeman, who told him that that was where committees met after the adjournment of Congress. Con-gress. Mr. Cannon said he met Mr. Smoot coming out of the building. The Senator Invited him to his office, where they talked over what Cannon was to testify at the hearing. Frank S. Richards, Rich-ards, counsel for the Mormon church, was present, and the witness said he explained fully that he was drunk in Salt Lake and had made statements regarding re-garding the alleged Cannon-Hamlin wedding which were untrue. On cross-examination by Mr. Worth-lngton, Worth-lngton, attorney for Senator Smoot. the witness said Abram H. Cannon had been In California about six weeks In 1898. - The witness said he had been In Salt Lake all the time during Abram's absence. H. declared- that neither Smoot, his clerk, Mr. Badger, nor Mr. Richards, attorney for the church, had discussed with him what his testimony was to be. He admitted to Mr. Worth-lngton Worth-lngton that he went on periodical sprees and often told "cock and bull stories" when drunk. Animosity . Toward Smith. "Has there been any feeling between you and President Smith?" asked Mr. Worthington. "Nothing except of a personal nature. Of course. It Is none of my business whom he makes apostles of, but I have felt that there has been too much Smith in his appointments. "And you have - expressed yourself pretty freely about 'the too much Smith,' have you not? "I think I have." Mr. Cannon said he went to Wilson's bank to get money and borrowed $12 or : $15 of Mr. Wilson. "He is not the kind of a man who would lend money to a drunkard, is he?" he was aeked. N "I don't think he is; no, sir." At the afternoon hearing It was brought out that the wife who accom-. pan led Mr. Cannon to Los Angeles was his third wife and not the sister of the witness. The hearing was adjourned subject to the call of Chairman Burrows. |
