Show A BREACH triumvirate IN our local columns today to day appears an affidavit of a peculiar character characters connected with the notorious rev 0 M pierce bankruptcy affair that has created so broad a scandal in the community the other day WO we gave an explanation of a number of crooked tram transactions actions performed by a trio of interested persons 0 M pierce T C griffitts and M i M bane the maze of moral and financial twist edness maintains its apparently interminable character the bev bey mr pierce states under oath that his assignee mr T C griffitts Is well weli we consider the word that would flatly desi designate guate it too vulgar and will put it in english parliamentary parlance guilty of a cleo conspicuous inexactitude when it is considered that the purpose of perpetrating t r ll 11 ting so eo flagrant a departure RE from m the truth was to defraud one 0 of f mr pierces Pier cers legitimate creditors of his lights the enormity and dishonest character of I 1 the falsification are intensified when this crookedness is combined with connivance with general M M X bane in allowing the lattore on a bill of sale ob bained from the defaulting clergy i man to carry away a large amount of property after the assignment was made a more unfit person to be entrusted with the property rights of a large argo arge number of people could scarcely ly be conceived I 1 the sworn denunciation by the Bev rev Pierce of mr griffitts looks like a cheering scintillation of light in the midst of the most deplorable turpitude and gloom it hag has the appearance of a ray of repentance pen pent anbe tance from the reverend gentleman we hall hail it as comet something in i refreshing and we must confess i jather jathen unexpected we hope he e will ke keep ep on in that line lines for none is so ISO far gone but he may retrace his bis steps there is one bleak spot in mr pierces Pier cers affidavit transactions however in view of his past career it 1 is a question with the public whether he can be safely believed under oath so bo far as general bane and mr griffitts are concerned we are not even so hopeful as of him they may mays however to be still very useful in their way it is to be hoped they will not cease their connection with the antio thormon crusaders who advocate tue uhe political dismemberment of utah they are admirably adapted for foe campaign work of that character in which they have so 00 conspicuously figured in that capacity reila rella reliability bih bib ty Is at a discount the chief qualification consisting of sufficient ingenuity and unscrupulousness unscrupulous nes to falsify the cormons mormons Mor mons without lint stint or limit in all probability the pierce grif grit fitts bane triumvirate is no longer a unit doubtless the soulful affidavit of the firstos first of the trio has isolated him from the other two they can no longer remain as aa three bouls bouis with but a single thought three hearts that beat as one in a scandalously crooked financial game of catch catchall all ali all al you ly c o in irrespective of the rights of of others the rev pierce mut now stand on onn in frigid isolation while griffitts and bane doubtless doubt lesa lesia still continue to fall on each others necks and weep at the diminution of the prospects prospect of get ting away with any more bible on en and gold pens |