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Show iTf T H A A VOL. . leilich " LOGAN CITY, UTAH. XXIV. at work ol Ministerial FEI1RUARY A MILLION. -- Uncov- advised by counsel that it is inex-- r ' ' With Polygamy. at this time to, give furered in New York, Smoot pedient charges ther particular concerning 6uch plqral marriagt and its results, or which it was solem- Modus Operand! of the Little Italy Gang to Swear to theplacejn Hesitate Not Doc MlnisUf uized, or the maideu name of the ofhich H' Has Exposed and Great Swindles Laid Bare plural wife - that Leilich assertsMr. also Corpses Stolen and Substituted For eclare Smoot i Living Vith Pluial President Joseph F.1 Smith, the Bodies of Persons Insured but Still Alive. President of the Mormon Chnreh, . Vife. is living in open ! polygamy and has had a child born to him by his And plural wife as late as 1898. Washington, Fob. 26. Senator also that President Lorenzo Snow New York, Feb. 27. Complete senate the of chairman lived died and in Barrows, the practice of exposure of the Little, Italy committee on privileges and elec- polgaray and polygamous cohabi gang of insurance swindlers was sentation, and that his plural wife, made in Harlem court. Assistant tions, today presented to the Minnie Jensen Snow, - bore - him a ate a protest signed by the Rev. J. put child as late as the wiuter of District Attorney Krotel h. Leilich in the ease of Senator; 1896-97- . Frank B. Forster on the stand at elect Keeil Smoot of Utah, urging the examination of Joseph Trepani, PREST. SMITH JUKES DENLAL. that Mr, Smoot shall not he . perPresident Joseph F. Smith, the undertaker, in whose shop, it mitted , to take his neat in the wheu interviewed by the Deseret is alleged, plots were laid which senate. Mr. Leilich is in charge News in and Utah missions concerning the foregoing netted the'eouspirators$1.000,000 of Methodist Associated Press dispatch, said:' is He resides in Salt Lake iity. in ten years. .Trepani was held in You amay state in the most in Washington as the represent bail for the grand jury. association emphatic terms possible that there $5000 tive of the Ministers Forster, who is 60, years old; not o. e mordT)ftrutlrr1n the of Salt Lake. His statement assertion that Reed Smoot is or was the chief soliciting, agent iu sworn to. . has been a polygamist, or that he this city of the Union Central InWITHHOLDS NAME OF WOMAN IN has married a plural wife either surance company of Cincinnati, one the case: , since or before Utah became a of the eight companies1 mulcted by Mr.' Leilich declares that Smoot state of the Uuion. Mr. Smoot the swindlers substitution of is a polygamist and now, has a has never bad bnt one wife at any corpses. The agent made a clean a plural wife, although Jhe deems time, As to the record which I breast of his connection with the ' it inexpedient to give the maideu understand from the dispatch we gang, and when he was on the uame of the lady at Ilts,ar(, desired to produce there is no staud he told his story charge on this poiqt., is aafol-jucThere were about twcuty persons record. No plural or polygamous marriages Jiave been solern- - in the gang, ; meu and women. That the said Reed Smoot is ajj,jze( by sanction of the Chnreh There are five prisoners now in the polygamist and that Since the ad-- i for many years, and therefore Tombs. Others who have tied will mission of Utah into? the Union of there is not and cannot be arec- - be arrested if they can be located. staies. he, although then anil ord concerning fbera. The whole Forster in his confession said his there having a legal wife, .married story about Reed Smoot ip a sheer company did a large business -- in a plural wite in the State of Utah, fabrication, evidently desfgned to Little Italy. in 1900 he was Callin violation of the laws and com- hinder his taking the seat in the ed upon by Bartolomeo Oirone, the pacts hereinafter described and United States Seunte to which he leader of the gang, and with Dr. since such plural or polygamous was elected by the Legislature of Oliver Moore of the company exmarriage the said Reed Smoot has Utah. It is untrne in eypry par- amined one Tromborula, to whom lived and cohabitated with both y a policy was issued on their ticular. Every marriage report legal wife aud his plural wife in Tromborula soon after that was is the Chnreh performed by the state of Utah and elsewhere, such as the law provides for and reported dead and the body substias occasion offered, and that the the license issued by the county tuted being exhumed, the alleged only record of such ' plural mar- clerk has to be produced in every frauds were revealed. riage is the secret record made and instance before the ceremony can Dr. Moore' testified he was sent kept bv the authoritities of the take place. to St. Michaels cemetery by the Clmreh of Jesus Christ of Latter-dainsurance company to identify the Saints, which secret record is The scratch of a pin may cause body exhumed, which was said to in the exclusive custody and con- the loss of a limb or even death be that of Tromborula. trol of the First When I examined the body in Presidency and when blood poisoning results from the quorum of the Twelve Apostles the injury. All danger of this may the coffin. said the physician, ofthe said Church, of which the he avoided, however, by promptly found it to le that o? a much said Reed Smoot is one, anil is beChamberlains Pain older man that the man I had exapplying yond the control or power of the Balm. It is an antiseptic and quick amined as Tromborula on the day protestant. Your protest.ant re- healing liniment for ents, bruises of the issuance of the policy. The spectfully that, the senate of and burns. For. sale by Riter examination of the body revealed the United States or its committee. Bros. c f Drug Co. the fact there were mittens on the hands. When they were taken off I saw that the glove had been stuf fed with cotton and that the right That no Knowledge -D- - , -, iss - , this-time- 2, J003,: .NO J& ' MADE the consideration of the ' senate. Your Association protestanfc says that he is Gigantic insurance Swindles i Kember compel the First Presidency and the quorum .of' the Twelve Apbstles and the said' Reed Smoot to produce such secret record for SATURDAY. .. , , h eere-mou- y forearm was missing. The right foot was also missing, the shoe having been stuffed with a block of wood shaped like a foot. The lips had been sewn together so ns to conceal the absence of teeth. The mouth was stuffed with cotton, causiug the cheeks to puff ouf and give the body the appearance of being 'that of a much younger man. Forster said that he was at, first banded $25 as a fee for his connection with the deal. said Forster, I saw then, that there was big money it the swindle, and I demanded a bigger rake-OfI nail a conference with Birone and Trephnt, and I said 1 wonted $500 for every claim I passed and 1 also wanted to Jcnow just how the business was done. if Trepani toldme-rth- at stick to them they would colleeUon hundreds of policies. Whv. said Cirone,- - we have in been, tins bus in os stouten y ea r s , There is an agent that "attends to LlTiGANT,S iN TIIE FIGHT FOR CHARLES L. FAIRS MILLIONS. all the industrial class of insurance teR about $G,V)0.000, and heirs of bis wife now claim that be. died first it)3!? accident in her. France and will left that bis to bv all in the district, and he has got the was pa,,g,j,j,J,,a0I,pbie property Oelrichs and Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt. i iuspcctorfixcd so Jie can pass jevery claim without trouble. j 'Forster said Cirone and Trepani told him how they got the dead bodies Trepani knew everybody who was rich and' likely, to dio. A NEW BLUEBEARD They would insure - a dummy in one or more insurance compauies. When they heard of a death iu the Albert A. Knapp of, Indianapolis Torn neighborhood they would arrange with the family to pay the funeral From Arms of Fourth Gride. expenses and the dead perfeou would be buried under the name of Numbers One, Two tad Three Have Mys the person insured. terioqstv Agricultural College. To have Disappeared Knapp Believed Murdered Number Three and The third number of Students Carted Her Remains Awav. Life is just out, and is being auxiousiy read by the students. Iudiauapolis. Iud,, Feb. 25. The military ball last Saturday Albert A, Knapp, formerly of night was a grand success, The boys cleared about sixty dollars with Hamilton. 6., was taken by the which to purchase a new flag, police today from tho home of his, The Senior gtHs in domestic arts bride on a charge pf murder. The are studying household composition that the wife at whose The sophomore girls are studyiug police say home Knapp was arrested and the composition of foods, several new students have entered for the whose maiden name was Anna May Gamble, is Knapps fourth purpose of taking cooking. Prof. McLaughlin spent a 'few wife, and that the others have disdays in the early part of this week appeared in a manner which warin Salt Lake City. He paid a visit rants investigation. to the third house. Knapp, it is said, married the The dairy and chemical depart- following women in the order givment have been working this Week en: Emmatubbs, Jennie Con on the analysis ot samples nf Pro- nors. Hanmih Goddard and May cess butter sent in by the iiealth Gamble. food commissioners of the state. Knapp formerly lived iu HamilProf, Merrill is goingto Hunts- ton, where Miss Connors and later ville next Saturday to e&ndnct a Miss Goddard were married to him. Miss Goddard, according to fanners institute. a in class The complaint made to the police at English has organHamilton ized a debating society. The ofby an uncle, disappeared ' Dec22 last. About two weeks ficers are: F. .D. Farrell, Presiago Knapp was married to Miss dent, Victor Reno, Gamble iu Iudiauapolis. and for Lydia Stephens, Secy, An investigation at Hamilton W. committee, Porter, E. 0. Peterson and Mildred ForgeonThe showed that Miss Goddard, or society will meet every Tuesday Mrs. Knapp No. 3, really disapafternoon,. The object of the.' so- peared Deo. 21, and that the folciety is to practice argumentation. lowing day Knapp was seen to The Sorosis girls are rehearsing take from a house a large box and Mid carry it away in a wugon rented daily for the rendition of summer Nights Dream. About from a livery stable. Further intwenty pretty little girls ore being vestigation showed that .Jennie brought up from the city each day Counors, wife No. 2 was found dead a few years ago in a canal to act as fairies. The coroner investiga-- ; will be a debate next There Saturday evening between the star ted at the time but nrrived at no Literary society and the law club. definite conclusion regarding the The subject is on the popular vote manner of her deAth. to elect a senator. At police headquarters Kuapp was An extra table was set in the questioned concerning the diniDg room last Saturday for Mr. whereabouts of his third wife. He d Miss Chase of Centerville. They said she disappeared from her, were entertaining their visiting home Dec. 2 and that he did not knw what had become of her. friends. minis-treout Look for the athletic l When asked whit he had in the box which he carted away from his show in the near future. Profs. Upham and Peterson were home the day after his wife was at Hyde Park last Tuesday even- last seen, Knapp seemed confused, ing and addressed the people, of but finail explained that be disthat place in au enthusiastic educa- posed Of a box of clothes. In his tional meeting. They report hav- confusion he said he had thrown ing met with a nice set of people the box. away about two miles from who are taking about the right his home. The police say Knapp steps to keep their young people has served eight years in' the - - Vice-presid- ent, ex-cuti- ve . in school. f. -- JUDGE -- ALTON-B PARKER ANiy HIS PRESIDENTIAL BOOM. Judge Parker, 'whose boom for the Democratic presidential nomination is now well under way all over the country, is chief judge of the court of appeals of New York state, the highest judicial offico in the gift of tno Empire btate. t , . m |