| Show MI MOBBED A A the following dispatch came by at oda led press from st louis on fla 19 tr mation has just come ufa 04 dole dale county state of ala af tobt that five dve mormon mission A 8 were severely whipped and V en fro m the county last Monday 14 jaw these men have been hold 9 meetings among the ignorant ft of t the count yand had formed acht ws to go to utah on monday so some me forty citizens of the the 10 part of the county without slightest attempt at disguise the house of gid irons frons tu convert who was enter W 4 the five missionaries with OM a askay they were brought d stripped to the waist and ottha in a row then each bolk L regu eguia laborg tore with a long switch tw each ach prisoner Dri a sounding was by the e time the last blow di t s jen vert two of the men had faint ai Q others were wet with blood T tete whipping ing ng the mens legs they ky M f given a thick coating of tar fattic and warned to leave y or suffer death the names of the mormons cormons Mor mons are asa P F dixon J H hagadon Hag adom M F miller john W pearce and morrison president william spry of the southern states mission is in this city and was shown the dispatch he states positively that there are no elders of the names given in the above report there is an elder miller in a west virginia nor does brother spry know of any elders at all in the vicinity of dale county ala these facts and the sending out of the telegram from st louis indicate that the whole story is untrue and seat out merely to create a sensation |
