| Show THE RUTTER ROMANCE the 1 lie story as published in chicago also a presentation of the Keal Facts the letters of oP Junius our ear chica chicago go correspondent are extensively and eagerly read doubtless many who have perused those recently published have been interested and captivated by the manner in which he has treated the ratter hotter sensational anait ant mormon story which appeared coall the leading chicago papers the orria horrible or le tale his has not yet appeared in its bloodcurdling blood curdling completeness in any local journal the newspapers in this section having merely published brief dispatches of the startlingly dramatic Munchausen iam we therefore introduce as it ir was presented to trie toe gaping dg public in the columns of tile the chicago mail will you please tell me where I 1 can find ti the e british vice consul asked a pale faced little woman about ll 11 this morning us as she approached officer gibbons then she pressed her hand to her head reeled bick bak waid Nvard and fell fainting inting ta on tile the sidewalk wic ahe w was as carried to a neighboring drug store and given ven a restorative when she said that she tad nad tainted fainted from exhaustion exhaust io n having boon been without food tor for four days I 1 beef tea was administered in small doses and when the woman had revived sufficiently she was taken to the armory police station ind a ud the wa wagon on was w as called to take her to the aie hos pita gi seated in the chair by the lieuie nants desk the un unfortunate fortunato woman told a horrible tale talc of life among the mor mons f her name naine she gave as elizabeth turnbull rutter five years ago she bho lived with her husband thomas her son then li 12 years ot of aga and her itlear old daughter in north shields Eng england lapola a lew few unless from newcastle on tyne about this time mormon missionaries made their appearance pear pe arance anoe at her homo home and be began bean an to busy themselves in the work of rosely ting X against the advice of herself and her hus bus band who was a methodist class leader of some repute their son joined the new church and set sail lor america in company a number of converts conver tb who s bt started arted out in care of it a Mormon lElder the boy bade his parents a loving farewell and promised to write buethe but the time passed ani and nothing inor more was heard from III him in then the father frantic with anxiety lett left his wife mid and daughter daught br and sailed tor for america in search of his hia boy soon boon af aticy ter his hib departure a let ter was received from the lad saying sayin that the mormon elders had taken away a I 1 I 1 his money and had guarded him so closely that lie was unable to send a letter A lady had given him live cents and lie he managed to write to his mother to bay that lie he was wab well and would come homa wien when lie he ouli could save ei e the money mr rutter arrived arri cd in ogden but for a long along time his w bif afu c heard nothing from him up II 11 found deml employment Joyin ent ditl i a f farmer arnier niad joseph holbert but could not save an oncy is as but small wages were avo given e n him finally he consented to td join the mor r buo inon church cli and went through the birst stages of initiation then foi tune suddenly stuffed on him and he was able to send his wife a drag fores for 8 which he enclosed in in a lettera lett erf telling he would soon be homo home and take his bo boy with h in the letter was intercepted on the way to the 1 post ost office and while the money was forwarded it was sent in care of a mormon missionary at north shields and was N as accompanied by a letter pur purporting to come from efrom mr rutter saying that the finds funds were to adf ins ills cifes afes passage to america and that she h wab to be bassage baptized and join om him with the next excer sion of emigrants the woman never doubt edthe authenticity of the letter and obeyed I 1 it implicitly oh what a trip etwas it was 11 11 W we e took third class passage on the steamer levado and were herded like cattle the elders ciders treated us as ar they pleased and the indignities offered us were some thing awful when the women objected object cd their arguments ants were overruled by the oft repeated arouni r remark emark daughter it is in the cause of god and the saints Inea I 1 reached clied I 1 garden sack sick in heart and body but bat I 1 got very little attention I 1 had been firm in my lily refusals to submit to the treat men accorded the women by bv the ciders elder sand and I 1 wits was in poor favor with them still they were afraid to take any overt ind measures lasures as we were watched aci y closely by the entile gentile ii at castle garden and it would not do to let any scandal leak out for three days we stayed there pending some dispute with the railway company about rates then we on tile the long trip to ogden in the crowded emigrant cars oh it was fearful at ogden I 1 was va met et by my husband who had oade been n no ai ts tiBal of my coming then for the first tim jimr learned that the letter with the money ame ine had intercepted by joseph holbert Holb crt the man with whom lie was working he was terribly angry and w wo e I 1 nade made a secret determination then to k leave utah as soon as we could we knew ew from fro n past experience that we would be un able to get away u unless we pretended I 1 re tended to accordi join the church and we accordingly angly attend ed meeting at logan temple the religion rei gion was disgusting after the services the first day the congregated on tile hutsi outside de at and swore terribly about some repairs which I 1 had not been made in Green walls licad head gate an irrigating ditch from winch which the county was supplied with water the profanity was terrible and I 1 never wanted to go to church again they kept at us to be endowed but I 1 put them olf until I 1 should be in a state of graep graces and my husband luis band said he aou would id wait lor for me inc we know at that time that we would have to go through the endowment aliouse to kapp up appearances but soon alter after a lady who had d been through told ia me all about it and i determined I 1 would die first the ceremony was too indecent to walkabout talk about it was awful every one went to ohp logan temple where ilie he women were taken in one side and the men inen entered an another oilier apartment the women were all undressed bathed and after which they were led in a nude nude condition to tle the endowment chamber proper this was decorated with trees and ana ferns painted on the walls and in front was a large curtain Si sista stIrs s ot of the oliu reli went ent to each of the novitiates and whispered in III her car her sanctified name which she must ne never er reveal the curtain arose and the balance ot the ceremonies were 0 o indecent that mr Mys would not ivcak of them under their promise to join the clinich hur clithe the huttera were treated very well weli with the ex caption that joseph Holbert wanted them to occupy the same bedroom with himself and his wife this HUB the butters would not consent to and instead slept in the barn until antil they could build an addition to to the house all this time they carefully gua ded their secret pla nato leave as soon as the crops were in rutter kutier had a share of tim alic growing grain winch which was just about ripe he had a little currency a horse cow and agricultural implements which he intended ko 0 o sellon the pretence predence pre tence of going into the mountains but one day last angast 11 11 t he in an evil moment confided his plans s tb a young ayoung mormon with whom he was intimate le wo lays days later he was brought home 0 jed dead it was said that he be was drowned in the me creek and his bis clothes were wet and draggled dragg led but in the back of ins his head was a ghastly wound and the blood was still issuing from his eyes nose an and d mouth the wife was terrified and tried to sell the grain and farm faim property she was met by the res response onse that she owned nono none of it the church church took it all she was urged g ed to loin join the church and was promised a young ti husband she pretended to hesitate and that night fled to ogden city where she secured employment in a hotel hatel and worked until last month to save money enough to pay her passage home to newcastle she nj managed anaed to purchase a licketto tic ticket ketto fo lincoln neb and steerage pas bags ge from new york home at lincoln s slie la ic paid her fare to chicago CIn cago and had bad but 12 left eft just enough she was a told to pay her wa way Y way half lire fare from chicago to 6 new anew Y rork rk intent on her purpose the poor woman would not break into her little horde for the purpose even of buying food and so arrived arn ed here fainting from hunger iier her story to lold d mrs rutter butter almost fell from her chair with fati fatigue 9 ue the patrol wagon was called and she was taken to the county hospital to gain the needed rest before continuing her journey home the fact that people claiming to be intelligent can be found who receive e such a bungled tissue of falsehood for truth ruth exhibits the fact that such persons have nat not the mental power of analysis if they had they would discard such a satorv which has almost countless parallels in the anti mor imor mon MOD liue line on account of the preponderating ponde rating evidence it gives of its own improbability we might say impossibility it should not he necessary for us to point soy any of the incongruities C out they are so ous fancy for instance a twelve year old boy bov setting the wishes of his parents at defiance by joining a church they haid f forbade him to connect himself 8 ell wit hand in the same spirit of dis regard dof of oare naren otal tat auth rity to ro under take a journey of miles more or less to take up his bis home among strangers in a strange land and the pa parents rents whose opposition to 19 the whole business was unutterable took an affectionate farewell of this precocious and undutiful son the story of the frantic father setting settin gout fout for a stir strange stige country in search at eh of his hia disobedient son is intended to be deeply pathetic but Us its absurdity completely smashes that sentiment senti meat this frantic father had not heard from his son because the elders had bad taken all his bis money and guarded him so closely he could not send a letter A lady with a large heart however broke through this conspiracy by giving him a nickel by bv means of which he was enabled to send a letter it appears that that small coin ot of the realm was wae the talisman by bv which he made a breach in the guard but it is not explained whether or not it was app applied 1 ed 0 on 11 postage or whether he used the fund for the purpose of bribing the sentinel those these elders who took the small boys change d mr utters ll letter to his bis wife wt tet wrote another enclosing the money and direct directing inz that it was to be used to payers pay mrs Rs ra bassae to utah etab this communication which indicated a deep anxiety on the P part art of people here to bring others other a along in order that they might employ their time in ia standing guard over them and sitt sitting ilag up at nights to see that no letters were sent out oat by mail was wai beloved believed by this versatile woman to be authentic she probably bad never seen the handwriting of her husband the innuendoes indulged in by mrs E T B R in relation to the conduct of the elders on the voyage are exceed anzly disgusting as she alludes to conduct for the perpetration of which an elder would subject himself to excommunication from the church and so on every statement could be disposed ot of from introduction to climax the alleged visit to logan and the ino incidental i dental assertions connected with it being absurd and utterly and aad totally untrue the averment that mr ratter butter was murdered the taking of the be farm property by bv the church 11 and the fl lett of mother aud and daughter I 1 to 0 og lien deb seven miles from west weber where chev bad been living livine and where all four of the had bad been treated hospitably ably and in a way that showed much solicitude tor for their welfare are all of a piece everybody in this re glon gion i knows that the anole story is a fabric of falsehood exacted on a slender base of fact owing largely to the indefatigable efforts of our chicago correspondent to unearth the foundation of the rutter romance we requested mr joseph hall of ogden to hunt up the facts so far a as i they could be ascertained owing to th the absence from bortle of some of the aties familiar with the fie circumstances cum stances he bp has been unable to rech them until now and we herewith pre siut the result of his efforts we take occasion to state that it if a similar course were beken regarding all the anti Mor toon blood ana anink r storks publish abroad a squiar wourl be but I 1 hey ari are B s n that eliat cheit tation would not only be au ao herculean but an almost alnita impossible tak statement of charles H greenwell OGDEN CITY utah july 26 1888 in the early part of 0 april 1881 1 left my borne bome in west weber and started on a mission to preach the gospel in Engla england I 1 arrived in liverpool on may the same year in the early part of july 1882 I 1 went to north shields and aad shortly afterwards became acquainted with mr john thomas rutter butter and family mr was at that time a member ot of the salvation army mrs rutter butter bis big w wife if e was then a member of the church of jesus christ of latter day kanats as also were his daughter ann E and his bis son john taomas mrs rutter butter was very anxious for her husband to loin join the mormon church during my visits to the family I 1 had a number of conversations with mr rutter on the subject of mormonism he became impressed fava favorably bly towards the doctrines of the mormon church on the of december 1 I again visited the family when mrs rutter butter told me her husband desired baptism and aad that he wiled me to perform that ordinance tor ter him which which I 1 did the same evening evening I 1 also at her request re baptized mrs rs rutter butter subsequently M mr and aad mrs rutter butter expressed to me a great desire tor for their son john jelin T ile he being under age to go to utah in mccharge my jc harge charge when I 1 returned home as his protector I 1 consented and promised r om to either provide him a home 1 with ti me or some of at my friends the parents furk furnished shed the bare passage money f for of him and I 1 provided him with food and all otner necessaries he required atred from new york to ogden we sailed from liverpool may 16 1883 in the steamship nevada we arrived in ogden on the 3rd ard of june following I 1 took the boy rutter butter to ray my house 1 aud and gave him a home he remained with me until the latter part art of march 1884 during which time ge be was treated a wita great kindness he expressed himself hi highly ehly satisfied with the treatment he fie received from me when he was with me I 1 provided him with clothes food and spending money at this time having nothing tor for the boy to do I 1 procured him a situation with mr joseph alvord in west weber with whom he stayed until the latter part of 1886 he afterwards came bame to ogden and aad obtained a situation in the broom factory of H B scoville he remained there until he be returned to england while livio living I 1 with me young rutter butter corres corresponded nde with his parents in En glandan england and ar urged d them to come to utah as soon as a they ey could 4 in the fall fail of 1884 Mr Butter Ratter came to utah shortly after he arrived he be employment with mcjoseph mr joseph alloo of f west weber la in the spring of 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