| Show A MODEL DEPUTY HOLDEN may jtb 1887 editor deseret news A little over a week since a thing it is wolden called a deputy marshal mari ihal came to holden to make an arrest and in j justice u stice to the community in general and sister johnson of holden in particular pa nicular it would be well to make public the following explanation albert ether a IL S deputy came to sister johnsons johnso ns on toe the evening of the alt and sought accommodation for himself and his horse for the night he mentioned as his acquaintances in holden the kenney be boys s with whom he became a little familiar familiar while they were employed in tintic gintic he inquired I 1 about them and others on the of the he went to the home of mr string L in to make an arrest of soi some ne one he seemed to think was staying there seemingly he did not find and the party whom he wanted as he said to a young lady relative of bro who was visiting his family 1 I think you ou are the person I 1 want to shiell which he received the coo reply 1 I hope you will continue to think thin so apparently he be had no confidence in his thinking as he made no ao arrests on returning to sister johnsons he remarked 1 I 1 have made a trip down here to no purpose however in the meantime he be paid a visit to a bitter anti ahti mormon by the name of james dames hiki of whom it is said ne lie should be in the pen tor libel were he to get his deserts and after leaving reki heki he went and arrested sister louise ashby badger now the next thing for them to do was to screen the informer from the contempt that naturally arises in the minds of honorable people for that class so to this end an apostate by the name of nichols paul began to cir cultee that tha t it was sister johnsoa who ho gave the names of all wha were liable tty und d er the edmunds law to the deputy the apostates statement obtained to a considerable degree when it was learned that ether had with him what pur purported arted to be a document batet dated at Spring springville ville utah county and the name of bishop packard recommending ether as a member of the church in in good standing ether showed the recommend to mr jos JOB S giles ot of holden and to judge thos C callister Cal listor of fillmore filimore saying when I 1 show this thia to any good mormon I 1 can got get all the information I 1 desire however this recommend was not shown nor spoken of to sister Jo Job bason to which fact a lady who resides with her and who heard all that was said by the deputies bears testimony but bu t the recommend 9 I 1 according to brothers callister Cal linter and giles was made on one of the forms forma regularly used by the bishops as to the genuineness of bishop packards endorsement these brethren could not state being unacquainted quain ted with his autograph the name on the recommend was not ether but that of ether is light complexioned without beard or moustache a appears to b be about twenty one years of age and in my opinion is a sneak or he would never seek to injure a venerable lady of sixty eight years by circulating lies to save the informers A M BUCHANAN |
