| Show highfalutin tin tile verbose and vile communication written by the murderer ho pt published in an illinois paper and 1 epro ducep in a 4 morning sheet of this city exhibits a novel phase of prison life when it is considered that the writer ot of the letter ietter is an assassin of the most monstrous type under sentence of i death after being thrice convicted the situation is rendered singularly striking it manifests the amenities of convict existence in the utah penitentiary an initiate ot of that institution of the fo fouert aest type is permitted to send out of his 11 place ce of confinement a iong long letter wr written tt n expressly for publication bli bil cation catlon in which he makes a villainous uld ous attack upon the tiie united states judges aby whom he lie was tried directly ac acci casing ising them of corruption and papers are found ready a ud willing to give space to lits liis imse base f it would be safe to say that a circumstance of that kind could not occur in any other place in the united states aud and then me statement may be applied with still stronger assurance to any other part of the world nowhere else eise I 1 would la ft i convicted murderer of the basest description be permitted to pose after that fashion us as a slanderer ot of tile the court ourt which tried his cas case e we will leave ont out of the question his ridiculous charge against the mormon community ai a it api appears ears to be accorded as the privilege of the most depraved specimens of humanity h to make false accusations against the mormon people does doey it not seem as if hopt was acting in more inore in the role ot of a ma moan roan n sitting in hi his office penning highfalutin and sinister ste r literature lor for the delectation of the gaping masses than in that of a convicted murderer entitled to but few privileges ile he certainly should be denied that of having the unimpeded opportunity of abujin abusing his betters circumstances alter cases two defenseless women belle harris and nellie white were some time ago incarcerated r car in the penitentiary they were accused of no placed within the walls of a only for the confinement of felons because they declined to answer ade 8 eions in relation to their domestic co concerns n which they deemed obtrusive not to say impertinent they were allowed no such privileges as appear to be accorded to hopt hout although so far as abusing anybody official or otherwise Is s concerned they had no desire to exercise arcise themselves in that direction the lady last named was specially subjected tu to strict surveillance nillance eil ell lance lanee and a nd restrictions if there was any other reason for this f further urther than the fact that the two ladies were mormons cormons Mor mons we vve agrenot are not aware of it be that as it may the fact that such depraved criminals cri crl finals and convicts as the murderer hopt being bein permitted to pompously air denunciations of public officials officio als ais and others through the public prints lills fills the thinking pat part of the disgust public ith alth infinite and inexpressible convicted felons are supposed to be deprived of the liberties and privileges of citizens and are not usually permitted to communicate with the world outside of their prison all their correspondence is supposed to he be scrutinized by the prison must be included in the responsibility for hoats vile and absurd hotchpotch we do not believe that a mormon prisoner would have been allowed to send a communication attacking anything gentile nor that hoats rho donio donlo neade would have seen seeli the light if it had bad not contained a virulent assault upon the mormons cormons Morn Mor mons ions 11 |
