Show A PITIFUL STORY vve have received from brother joshua hawks of franklin idaho some correspondence telling a cruel and litif pitiful at tale of persecution togo to go to the beginning of the story while elder hawks was laborim laboring in decatur county ten 1 u h he was the means in november of bringing a man named J R henson wife and faintly family into luto the tho church shortly afterwards the new members and others were subjected to violent persecution one man attempting to assassinate brother henson firing three shots at him each of which fortunately tuna tely inis missing sing slug the intended mark the man who attempted the murder was arrested and anti committed to jail to await trial which was to t take place last july duly knowing tile tromon beelin feeling that thal thal that existed jilder haks advised lf brother iother henson heuson and family to immigrate grAe to colorado before the commencement of the trial but they failed to do this the consequence was as anticipated by ane eldur as proved by later events detailed in correspondence received by him a f few ew weeks ago dated at jones boro arkansas on the oth of august last a mob made an assault upon brother henson nis wife and children they fired seventeen shots into the house the tue inmates narrowly escaping g being mass massacred no one was hit however except one of the gills laura henson hensol who was wounded la ill tiie the temple the ruffians ruffling then threatened to enter the house take li rother Brother Ilenson henson out and kill him but this threat they failed to put into execution as none of 0 them seemed p ar anxious to be bethe bathe the first finst to g gt b inside they however ordered him to leave tue country within tive five days from date on pain of ox death brother henson remarks in his letter that he did dil nt nat want to be degraded by falling into the hands bands of such a low lived blackguardly and bloodthirsty crowd so on the of august he left his home and family from whom he ife was thus fitiles ly driven and went to arkansas ile he got a friend named bethel to go and ana assist the family to wind up business so that they mi might I 1 lit move to where he had gone but this person was hedged up in innis nis his operations on every side by the tile antl anti mormon fanatics then the wife of the fugitive mrs jalle jane henson on the tho of last september got a note from the brats commanding her to leave ten days with the alternative it she did not comply with this decree of having her house burned down with herself in the flames in consequence of these inhuman threats which she had every reason to believe would be put into execution if she remained slie she managed to get together barely enough money to take 10 self VA and little ones to jonest artan sas so she locked out tor for that place where she joined her husband in writing to brother hawks the particulars of the bitter experiences of himself and family brother henson esil evil evinces ices a spirit of remarkable cheerfulness under the circumstances indicates that his faith id the gospe gospel is still unshaken adversity has hag evidently had no influence in weakening it one would suppose that such as those described in the would touch a it sympathetic chord in the hearts of the most hardened but there are people who appear to be utterly oblivious to any of the finer touches of human sentiment if it were not so one of the leading causes of such murderous brutality liti as the hapless henson family have been subjected to would cease its ita infamous output of falsehood against an innocent and an unoffending offending people thelia the lie lle s that cause prejudice to be created against the 11 mormon Mori morl people are in this city by a villainous local anti antl mormon mordou press and Us its sympathizers i and although the shedd inz of the blood of innocence cence fiendish deeds of lucendi arism the rendering of helpless women and children homeless and destitute are some home of the results of their hellish work yet their diabolical knavery continues unabated I 1 when the cay of reckoning the position of these unprincipled individuals divi duals will not be enviable will be piled up a record of events which they will be held answerable the indirect cause of their mccu that will make them wish they shrink into eternal oblivion in preference to meeting the consequences their own infamy |