Show FORMER DEAN TY J B 13 Eddie Answers the tho Old Charge of Immoral Conduct Against Him HE PLEADS HIS INNOCENCE As JS In 1 sens c s sl l llo lb Did Rid Nut Not Get a Fair Jl I As forecaSted t d In yesterdays a Sown os wall Wa gassed Cd In tho the day Ila upon uron former Denn Denit J It U EddIe Eddlo who had Imd been heen be found guilty ot of Immoral Judgment was 1111 pronounced by Bishop Spalding of ot thin the tl Protestant Episcopal l J church chuich In a room ot or St SI Marks cathe cattie cathedral dral iii aI where for to fo several years yearn the nc no cased d had performed his labors r und n tho the verdict rc rendered against sl i him was that hint he ho lie deposed from frutti the thi th A lengthy ef nM was wl rend b by Mr III lr EddIe along tho I ho Itt lines hueS Indicated In tho tim News namely that the tho charges el had been brought because of if jealousy of ot persons and a tL desire deaha on their part to bring about hla him undoing and the tho th further ullo 11 fact that ho hu had not had bud a fair lair and Impartial l hearing About EO IiO persons were ivern In attendance At nt the closing scones scenes of or th cense ns nM tho the proceedings were were open to the thc lie public Among were WeN several members ot or orth tIm the th clergy cl two tern of ot whom Rev Alfred T 1 Brown of ot Ogden and Rc H II Townsend of ot Provo Prove attended tho thu accused The he verdict as nB read by Bishop BIsho lag Ing was wai 11 as II follows By fly n tho the judgment of tho Uto ecclesiastical court of 0 the tha th missionary district ot of Ha Sol Lake City In thin tho month of at December 1006 you James B n Eddie I dle WArO W ro ad nd adjudged judged guilty of ot Immorality the thu ver vei verdict ve Slot dict of ot said bald cout being T deposition from lie thu ministry and on the day of ot October 1907 1007 this verdict was WIlS by the tho court of revIew ot or the Sixth judicial district You are arti now by the of or canon paragraph 20 privileged to show causo why wh sentence should not ho pronounced or to offer any ally matter in excuse or palliation MR MB m EDDIES PLEA Taking advantage of ot the tho privilege ot or making junking a It Plea ilca In hut bin own behalf be he tore foro sentence was pronounced die said in iii van pan Like UllO St HI before King I t am ala glad gilld to answer for myself IC touch touching touching ing those things whereof I 1 am ant There are ale many 1 I might urge why sentence should not net bo be pro pronounced pronounced against me and especially by you Right Rev Ito Bishop Spalding but butI I shall content myself with the follow tollow log Ini logI I nm am innocent innocent of all the tho charges mado made against me I havo have never In thought word or deed ded committed any an of or tho the With Which 1 J 1 was wan charged ch 1 have never neer done dona aught M that 1 I would not do or orbs orbe ba willing to havo done to my own chil hll children dren dran I always did the best bent I 1 could tot lot every member tr ot of St Marks cathedral and nud the period of or m my ministry tiLts has hl boon been ono one of ot the most prosperous ma materially tim tonally and spiritually In tho the history of ot thin thIs vanish pariah Front From the records of ot my 1111 trial ft from flom oin and from facts well known to ninny many It has ht been n shown that regardless of ot my liD guilt or inno innocence cence CenCI law Jaw or at evidence or jUg Jima thee this end now reached d was deter deler determined rained mined on from tho the beginning by those calling themselves my uty friends Guilty or not guilty wild said nl 1 Mr Hunting on all the tho l th of ot December lISa IDOo you ought to resign and go away ton for the tho good ot of the tho church churchIn In a 0 letter leUel written by you ou Right Rev ne Bishop Spalding to mo urn on all lie day of May 1906 sonic some hm before h toro the tho commission sulon on my soy case rendered Its report you ou practically assumed my lay guilt and suggested the tho stuns sallie course COUlse You wrote Since it seems scorns probable that grounds for fOl trial are to Lo bo ho 10 re reported ported do thu not think mo mite unfair or tm timi loving If It I consider tho the opposite files and I nd ask Ilak you to consider c it il top too INFLUENCE OF BISHOP Because 1 of your our widely published belief bello In iii my in guilt among tho the clergy and laity Of t this thin district and because of your our position and Influence as its op UI of the t same und anti um with molt men ns as my Judges who into were Veto your OUI appointees and amid depended largely on your good goodwill goodwill will ivIll for fot their position l and auth living I 1 could not and did not no receive a n fair fall fairund und antI impartial trial l On the contrary from Crom tim the records of ot my toy trial it has ho beon been that generally ac no accepted CJ letl principles of common law which govern in all courts of ot justice trampled tr on In lii regard lo to the tho law of evidence tho thu statute t of 11 Utah In toco ut Itt the tho of ot my hay trial Is as IlS follows A con conviction shall not bo be had on ott testimony of or un accomplice unless ho Is 18 corroborated corroborated rated by br other evidence which In Itself and und without the aid ald of tho the accomplice to convict tho the with tho the of tiC the tIm mimi this thin conviction shah not riot bo be It If it shows the thu commission of lit tho the offense or tho thu circumstances Yet that lint was sas the tho on which 1 I was convicted Ito tho testimony of witnesses who were ac no accomplices of ago mid and know knowl to ho huld held accountable tot for their acts not OttO ono could give day or ot date except tho Iho Impeached wItness Edward Edvard EdwardG J G C Evans 1 ilici charges wu WH mid yearn old and nil all irene stale e The Tho counsel on my nt behalf demand demanded lI ed od a 1 public trial and it was nuked od thon thull that mala malo communicants over 21 1 yeats ot of age nee in good In Limo tho church might ho he admitted and andwan wan waH Hl tho ho privilege of ot said to lo bo be admitted 1111 tOil which of ot offer tot fer wag VitI rejected as II niU do In donot donot not noL coi In Ill any sense a IL representation of t oven oell tho t ito mulu communicant coats cants a much less leHs the tha public Thin re 10 refusal on op tho putt Patit of IC my lilY In III spite of ot the tho canon llon law und LilieS In III spite of ot the fact that secret trials are aro HID lie l It Ii mind and h e 13 I I trite ruo liberty re restrained restraIned strained by 13 law Yet Yot the Iho trial a not ended elided when the tho of ot the wal iia ap violated and it a lom article a rt ide to tn mo lilli Willi tin as a In ho omit onu of ot tho the dully 1 I II Ill ms which could coti Iii only havo lints been siren out by with tho the I n WITH INSANITY It Jt was wan WO claimed l that I 1 mada n a ton to Mulcts Blown I Il 1 1 no tilts tIll anil 1 not thin hilt till I 1 1 In Iu teflOn the lie truth of ot the Ih but hut that after aftel having tech I to of or o t the truth of ot th Ih charge challIo t I annie of Inn which In III tin ot Of geil Willi tantamount to 10 nn an nina lInn ur or coil 1 I was unu with Mr limiting I J ivies waa crazy My Iy ui II nearly an tie 1 I con omi local I 1 mu Ibid t hova hu b lisit n If IC 1 Old did audi auch a as 1111 I J havn nu no of ot II It or Ut that lint I 1 have not lint a it of a 0 heat loll of it II Thu II fHI II t I tech lo 10 t o mo 1110 by of lit u by It thin Ihl Interpolation I itt of lit a mi Mingle word worl that hitch they hey aw as ott an tilt luot Ii lOll lit no I Title as all uli by lIy b I this Iho testimony IIA of tIme the live Ivo nl lil named lIaised tins 1 by b tIle tho most tl of pro 1110 claiming tho repent repented ed td by ono OliO of or haiti th III If It tilt thin course courso pre liro nn tilt by II them Ih m wn Was not hoL fol followed ol olIOu lowed IOu by h me IIII nm and Ind I Were verc by II promises of or secrecy e mitt pecuniary 1 IH if It tint tho course presented ted WAn Wait In ho by inc mr mrM meMy My M reputation IM to be bein in I n oil by b PublIclY ly proclaiming he lie nn ni n 1 I wa was Was to In III II tIm tho m of ur for tor tho the good of at tho the church to t accede to thin the th demands mado for till my In resignation A course ot Of deceit to tn conceal from ruin my tn wife anti the public Ito Iho cause of my leaving laving Salt Lake was recommended lo in tn im lit I till by mo 1110 reject rejected ed H it arnit forcibly ut c d upon inn ItIl that lint whether I 1 was Aas guilty or not hot my lily usefulness an nj a it clergyman hero Itero ivies Willi de tIe After ACt I 1 vainly appealed for foran foran an opportunity to loIl nl with scum somo one tot for advice and titter after ovon tIme the pres n of ot my IllY wife MH WIS denied me Ine In itt n di moment or ot II which I r have hae nOt censed CC st rl to tl I deplore which can only be 1 excused sed by lIy my nt mental lil physical condition caused ed II by ho tho hot hor horror ot oC f tho time false charges and this hits public of them I against my better Judgment to the tIlL demand for my toy 11 resignation APPEAL ro TO HEAVEN This and this tItle only have hn I t lo to contests tOutS tor for this I J beg time the th forgiveness of ut my 11 friends Who have huo moat joost m st mug mor stood by rite rno In hum my m for tor any Injury I 1 tansy may have shone done to tn tho th cause of ot truth and Justice by yielding In to lo such stick weakness s and for mr tIme till i Injury I l may dummy have ha dono clone my wife and Ind children whom God gave me tue to pro protect leet INt and 1111 provide for fot Like when his hl hii condemnation condl lion tion and death cie determined on by hIli enemies before ht Ito was itaM wn tried Irl and mid Whoso vho a appeal lo to a n higher civil court wan wait In lit vain I appeal to In Almighty God and antI to o the tho sense of right mind and justice which animates tim tho mind of tho tIme public and I r refer till nil tacit to the tIme people among whom Wh n I r 1111 ii ed and labored bored l for tor 20 years In tIme tho ministry up UI to tho the time of or those accusations two years ago 11 go a as to my IY w work ork and ailS character |