| Show A TERRIBLE TALE OF WOE WE have seen in a great many eastern papers accounts of the troubles of a family by the name of thomas said to be from salt lake city but who it appears while in this territory lived at scofield where the man worked in the mines the story is that these people lived for five years at that place but were pestered by the cormons mormons Mor mons with demands that they should join the church and on their asal to do so the mormons cormons Mor mons threatened to kill them and made life unbearable to them in the early part of february the husband decided to return to wales with his family and in a few days daye purchased hawd tickets to wales via steamer from new york meanwhile the man was so harassed by his surroundings that he was afraid of his life and left Scoff So ofield eld with the feeling that he was being pursued by some mome one who was trying to kill him and while crowing crossing the detroit river biver he thought he saw one of his pursuers and jumped into the river to escape the wife was nearly wild at the lose of is of her husband and thought that men were pursuing her also to kill her and would not be comforted she bhe had four children aged nine six four and two years and a four months month sold old babe the wife had her steamer ticket from new york to liverpool but the husband bad in his bis pocket the railroad tickets and checks for their baggage the sequel of this story was that benevolent people excited over this new atrocity of the mormons cormons Mor mons made up the money to pay the passage of these people to wales and they sailed in a steamer from new york in all probability there will be another esen sensation 11 made out of this terrible tale on the arrival of the I 1 les escaped victims in Wale sand the papers of the principality will repeat the nonsense copied from journal to journal in the united states it may be useless to say to our eastern contemporaries that there to is not a syllable of truth in any story of attempts by the mormons cormons Mor mons to compel or in any way unduly influence people to join their church scofield is in pleasant valley emery county about a hundred miles from salt lake city and the population is only about half mormon J the idea of it mor cmor mons crying trying to force people into their church is not only antagonistic to the spirit and doctrine and practice of the church but is utterly absurd in view of the situation at scofield the poor creature thomas who corn com suicide eu icide may been deranged on this subject and may possibly have frightened his bis family into believing the nonsense that chat affected his own weak brain but the probabilities are that the good people of the east have been A played ayed upon and t preyed upon once more by deceiving persons who have availed themselves of the popular ignorance concerning the mormons cormons Mor mons in a scheme to raise some money there s no do earthly reason why the cormons mormons Mor mons should want to compel people to join their church there never was a genuine case of this ch character ameter all the tales that have beton betin told to the contrary were sheer fiction among the sturdy miners of scofield such an occurrence as that alleged in the thomas romance would be simply impossible and the press of the east should by this time be better acquainted with the truth about utah than to be hoodwinked by such palpable falsehoods we hope some of our scofield friends will inquire into this matter and send us the true particulars if such persons as MI BA nnie thomas and her liba band thomas thomas and family ever lived there we will publish the facts when received though in all probability the prees and the public as usual will pro pre fer to hold bold fast to the fiction |
