Show A FOUL SLANDER REFUTED ox ON march the chief antl mormon organ of this city published a communication furnished by its regular provo prove correspondent correspond enk milo zip purporting to give the particulars of a case of best bestial lal conduct upon the part of a prominent mormon of fillmore known as dr north who however to is not we understand a physician the writer represented that the county court had placed in charge of dr north a demented woman named webb that he had been in the habit of occupying her bed with the knowledge and approval of me his wife that she was about to become a mother by him that she had been ill red fed ill III clothed and badly cared for that these facts had been disclosed by an official investigation on the part of the county court and that the woman bad been placed in other hands the statement of the foregoing particulars as it appeared in the paper referred to was sickening in its grotness grossness gross grow nesa ness and and it is noticed in our columns now only because truth and justice so demand we have been furnished furnis bed with a statement by george crane one of the selectmen of millard county to the effect that the article was as false as it was filthy the facts as given by mr crane are substantially ly as follows for eight or nine years mrs gehb bad lived and been eared cared for inthe family of dr north but for several months prior to march mancl he had been sick and unable to attend to his affairs some of mrs webbs friends complained to the probate judge that she was not being properly cared for far since he be bad been sick and she was placed in charge of parties at holden at atthe the time this was done there was no rumor of any improper relation between her and dr north but soon afterwards this rumor began to be whispered around two of the selectmen of the county george crane and JD B R stevens and the county clerk T C callister carlister lister made an investigation of the rumor and satisfied themselves that it was false next the matter wea taken up by the ecclesiastical authorities the chure h of which dr north to is a member and thoroughly investigated by them any concealment or compromise of the offense had it been proven before a church tribunal would have been impossible the guilt of the accused would have been exposed and he would have ave been n excommunicated munica ted from the church whose whom members would have felt this to be the only method of expiating the disgrace his conduct had brought upon it no religious society in the world more intensely detest such offenses as that which was here charged than do the latter day aay saints and excommunication is the result when such guilt on the part of a member becomes known this is the utmost extent to which any church can go in this count country in the punishment of any offense on the part of a member but the ecclesiastical investigation according to the statement of george crone crane exonerated denorth dr north so far as the charge of improper sexual relations with mrs webb was concerns conc ernd incidental to it was developed that she was not likey likely to become a mother and a certificate to this eff effect act from boex bo ex perien ced practitioner was forwarded to us with the statement from which these facts are gathered |