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Show Friday, January 29, 1988 THE HERAID. Provo, Utah, Page 3 Singer standoff latest in polygamist conflicts SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -The bloody climax of a lSrday standoff between a extremist polygamist clan and police was just the latest chapter of a religious strife stemming from the Mormon Church's abandonment of plural marriage in 1890. Ck t "" " "" ' - . Addam Swapp was in serious but stable condition late Thursday at University of Utah Health Sciences Center and a police officer was dead following a shootout at the northern Utah farm belonging to the family of slain polygamist John Singer. Swapp purportedly believed that Singer, killed by police during an arrest attempt nine years ago, would rise from the dead to save his family and thus usher in a religious and political revolution. To bring about the confrontation he believed was necessary to resurrect Singer, Swapp allegedly bombed a Mormon chapel in Marion, about a mile from the Singer compound. John Singer, Swapp apparently believed, was the "One Mighty and Strong" Mormon Church founder Joseph Smith had predicted would come to reform an errant church in the latter days. The letter, considered scripture by Mormons, is contained in the faith's Doctrine and Convenants, Section 85. But it is the "fundamentalist Mormons," who refused to go along with the mainline church in giving up plural marriage a century ago, who embrace it with the most fervor. L.G. Otten, a religion professor at Brigham Young University, said the mainline Morso-call-ed ATF Agent Nolan Douglas displays weapons and explosives taken from the Singer home after the siege concluded Thursday morning. mon Church teaches that Smith's letter was meant for an errant bishop. When the bishop repented, the One Residents of Marion want tranquility again By LAURIE SULLIVAN Associated Press Writer For MARION, Utah (AP) the first time in 13 days, calm descended Thursday on a police encampment as officers grieved for a comrade slain in a shootout with a polygamist clan whose leaders are accused of bombing a church. In the parking lot of the bombed-ou- t chapel, some of the 300 residents of this tightly knit Mormon farming community wept upon hearing the outcome of the standoff at the clan's barricaded homestead. The clan has inhabited the mountain valley for well over a decade, and Thursday's fatal shootout was the group's second. "We're glad that this part of it is over, but we wonder if this is really the end because we thought it was over nine years ago, too," said Karen O'Driscoll, who launched a drive to raise money for the family of the slain officer. standoff in After an John 1979, polygamist Singer was killed by police outside e the clan's compound a from the church. Police sent to arrest him said Singer pointed a pistol at them after they surrounded him. Singer's widow Vickie, 44, - 18-d- ay half-mil- Herald seeks old photographs The Daily Herald needs old photographs of industries along 200 West in Provo for an upcoming special section. Anyone who has old pictures is invited to bring them by The Daily Herald offices. The photos will be copied and the originals returned. Photographs or questions e should be directed to ext. Jones, Lyr-ain- 373-505- 280. 0, and Addam Swapp, were the main players in the latest siege, which followed the bombing of a Mormon chapel Jan. 16 and ended in gunfire that killed a state corrections officer and seriously wounded Swapp. Swapp, Mrs. Singer and the 13 other clan members holed up at the homestead were said to be awaiting Singer's resurrection, which they believed would be triggered by an armed confrontation with police over the bombing. Swapp and Mrs. Singer have been charged in the bombing. "I'm afraid it's not over," said Marion resident Valerie Yost. "I think they will carry son-in-la- w 27, a vendetta way." somehow, some Authorities who had given briefings during the siege fought back tears Thursday, and the voice of Doug Bodrero, the deputy reporters thrice-dail- y state safety director, cracked as he delivered a brief statement on the end of the standoff. At a later briefing, federal agents offered condolences to the family of the slain officer, Lt. Fred House. Nolan Douglas of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, his face haggard and drawn, displayed two firearms, 22 sticks of dynamite and two bags of feathers taken from the Singer farm. A red spear bearing Mormon symbols and bedecked with 12 feathers denoting the 12 Mormon apostles had been planted in the ground outside Mighty and Strong was no longer needed. But sects which broke away from the church over polygamy say the One Mighty and Strong will yet come to restore and plural marriage order to the church forcefully. Vickie Singer, the mother-in-laof Swapp, made reference to the One Mighty and Strong in the only interview she gave is coming now. There will be a collapse of church, on, Leo P. Evoniuk, in Santa Cruz, Calif. Evoniuk went to a business meeting but never returned. At the meeting site were found a large amount of blood, a par- Mighty and Strong to set his house in order. He will be a the 9mm gun shell casings same caliber of the weapon used to kill Jordan in Utah. after a the chapel was bombed. She said Jan. 16 that the bombing was "symbolic of what tial denture and numerous state and nation ... and the Lord will send that One resurrected being." Just three months ago, Utah police faced another apparent Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Detective Lloyd Gray said Evoniuk is either dead or he elaborately faked his death. Like Jordan, Evoniuk was disliked by some former fol- One Mighty and Strong-relate- d murder. On Oct. 19, polygamist cult leader Daniel Ben Jordan of Bennett, Colo., was shot to death while deer hunting near Manti, Utah. His death may lowers of LeBaron. Before his death, LeBaron apparently ordered Evoniuk to share equal control of his church with his son, Arturo. But a power struggle apparently erupted between the two, have stemmed from his parting, on purportedly bad terms, with the late polygamist leader Er-v- il LeBaron. LeBaron died in the Utah State Prison in 1981. But Richard Forbes, an investigator for the Salt Lake County attorney's office, said authorities suspect that he may have left a "hit list" before he died with names of people who he felt had betrayed him. and Arturo was reportedly killed in Mexico on Dec. But followers of Arturo LeBaron are said to blame Evoniuk for the reported slaying. Consequently, police seek some of them for questioning regarding Evoniuk's disappearance. The former leader of Jordan and Evoniuk, Ervil LeBaron, was probably the bloodiest of Ones all the He was and Strong. Mighty convicted of ordering the murder in 1978 of a rival polygamist leader in Murray, and Forbes said he likely had two other polygamists killed, including his brother, Joel. Jordan's name may have been on the list because he started his own group, taking away several of LeBaron's followers after LeBaron was imprisoned. 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Also displayed was a photograph of a toddler who appeared to be holding a firebombed-ou- arm. About 80 federal, state and authorities, most of whom worked shifts, had ringed the Singer compound day and night. Markslocal ur men wearing white arctic clothing and masks for warmth crouched in hiding for hours on end in weather that plunged to 15 degrees below zero. "Yeah, I'm really glad it's over," said Max Lewis, whose mobile home across the street from the parking lot had been invaded by reporters seeking warmth, a telephone or a colorful quote. "Now we can partially get back to the way we was before the serenity and we've always had up quiet here." DOES YOUR PATIO DOOR LET IN TOO MUCH OF THE GREAT OUTDOORS? i?fZp?J&t that our 10 ZCM1 stores With winter on its way, you'll want to replace that drafty air-tigh- iiiS V sliding door with an t, ''yf insulated Prado swinging Patio J door system by v Peachtree. It's strong, beautiful and it lets in only what you want of the great outdoors! 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