| Show JARMANS INSANITY agitation aroused in swansea wales bythe by the notorious jarman appears according to the papers to have been a protracted affair the herald of that town in its issue of july ath gives an account of an alleged antl mormon lecture delivered by jarman of all the foolish insane and scandalous staff ever placed before a public aud audience Kence that harangue must stand we believe unrivalled elder divid david williams in a clear and concise cise way replied through the columns duhe paper named showing the utter inconsistency of jarmans Jarman Ps statements vile JF welsh paper of july publishes an interview with elder B H in which the latter in reply UJ question as to his opinion of jarm man an said well a new light has dawned upon me in respect to him the last few days my attention was called to the fact that he admitted in his book that he had escaped from a lunatic asylum and that his wife also ment mentioned ione the same thing in her letter to the editor of the barnsley independent but knowing I 1 the slippery customer cua tomer I 1 was dealing w of th I 1 wired to the principal of the ex minster asylum asking if mr jarman had ever been in the asylum there and how he came to get out in reply I 1 received a dispatch acknowledging that mr jarman had been an inmate and had escaped the first night after admission this was a new revelation to me it afforded an explanation to the pretended horrors he details and had I 1 been in poss possession essip of that information before accepting his bis challenges I 1 should have made that clear 41 tt frough the papers and then if people wished to fall in with the raving ravings s of a madman all well and good until they learned better for trie the sake of humanity I 1 had bad several times tried to think him insane but found so much method in his madness that I 1 re turu turned eLto to the toe wrong one perhaps that he was more knave than tool fool now however I 1 am satisfied that he be is insane upon this theory and this theory along alon can I 1 understand bow he be comes comae to tell to his audiences such stuff us as that escape of his to the rocky Mountain at peace among the lions and tigers there on berries e ep ap at an altitude of feet and his bis blood curdling stories respecting wholesale assassinations in utah these things are merely the idle coinage of a mind diseased it was from minster exminster Ex that the man made his escape but the poor fellow imagines it was in utah I 1 sympathise with mr and his anti mormon friends who have been so unfortunate as to import into your town an escaped lunatic to support their cause we lately advanced the theory of jarmans lunacy and it seems to be well wall established now comes a per question would it not at this stage ol of the agitation be better tor for the brethren from henceforth to leave the madman and and his ravings raving 8 se severely verel alone people who have so li little atle regard for decency and are so deficient of the spirit and light of truth that they will greedily swallow the vile slanders of a lunatic can hardly be expected to be among those who are the sheep of christ familiar with his voice they prefer to follow another after it is placed beyond reasonable doubt that a man is insane intelligent people cannot in our view afford to get down and debate with him |
