Show MURDERED BY MORMONS tax philadelphia press of august th contained cont a bood curdling special klapatch dla patch from st george geerge utah in abich iob particulars were given of an alleged who wholesale leonle murder A rancher named richard bell ving ng with his wife and two imms six flix miles from st george were liala to have been found dead in their sand and evidently murdered in their leei the man and b bis Is wife with their heade crushed and the boys with their ahro throats ats cut from ear to ear the veracious dispatcher related several particulars with a view to sho show w beast bell was an antii mormon 11 that averal veral threats N had been made by the and two attacks had bad been e upon him on which his assail were worsted from this the beso was led to publish the account I 1 ith the flaming headlines murdered ml ly mormons cormons Mor mons 12 and A whole family t but out of the way while ailep for their lint views A we should probably have taken no t notice of this sanguinary but stale and fishy tale except for the fact that we ye have received letters asking there is any foundation for it BT we have made diligent inquiries and pa can learn nothing but that the general X opinion aninion to is it is a hoax the attaches 1 rf th the e united states marshaus marshalls Mar office e regard it in this light and knew nothing about it but what wha t has found ito way into the papers higuch stories are occasionally fur liter hed to the ea eastern stern press and are circulated with evil intent lutent they are fr bonow ted by malicious liberals liberale I 1 who chave have been encouraged in cleir ahe e work by the local common receptacle for suc such h effusion and when a tee chances are that detection would floon follow if their falsehoods found hice in the salt lake budget of lander alander they are forwarded to I 1 paper at a distance some me the frees in its sensational head bead nes nee has jumped to a conclusion drawn only y from inference the statement ran waa not made in the body of the dis patch tab that the murder was committed cormons mormons Mor mons JI but the circumstances re so related that this idea might arise from them jt it is not very likely that the phila pre press will make any contradict jaon lon of this canard or take any pains to trace out and expose its li bellous in Ibn nant that is not usually th the way V th such papers but nevertheless we ne consider it the duty of a respectable journal to frankly acknowledge an error when it is pointed out and to rebuke in private if not in a public way abe inventor of falsehood who seeks to vent his spleen upon an innocent community we wall say for the information of the press of the united states that there are no people living who are more averse to the shedding of human blood than the latter day saints commonly called cormons mormons Mor mons sly and that in their faith the crime of murder committed by one of their number is unpardonable the stories that have been invented by their enemies are numerous and atrocious and the sensational accounts of their complicity in crime which are believed by many people are in most instances as destitute of foundation as the canard murdered by mormons cormons Mor mons which appeared in the philadelphia press frew the bell of the st george sensation is 0 nothing more than a chestnut bell |