Show missionaries maltreated MAL TREATED shameful persecution of an elder carolina at this morning elder joseph thorup of the first Ward reached this city on the D K R G train due yesterday afternoon having baving been five days on the journey from south carolina ile he left ts this city on a mission to the southern states september 11 1885 and was a signed to labor in the south carolina conference his first traveling companion was eller elder willard cragun in november 1885 they experienced mobbing at the hands of the enemies of truth but received BO bodily injury on one occasion at a town called belton they were arrested by a vigilance committee and after a farcical trial ordered to leave the county on pain of death three weeks later a mob of 50 60 men came after them intending to use violence but the elders were warned of their approach p 11 and got out of the way tote during fing the period that followed elder thorup labored in several counties of north and south carolina meeting with varied success in june last tie he was appointed to labor in oconee county south carolina and accompanied elder eider W N anderson andersen part of the way on the batters lat journey kuurne y nome home on june 13 on that day elder choup thorup felt ill and next day w was a 8 q quite it I 1 sick I 1 ek being attacked wi with th typhoid fever he managed to continue to his new field where he received attention from the saints though suffering consi considerably deruby and having at times a high fever he was enabled to move about a little and was confined to ted bed a portion of the time about the of july he was released to return home and on the ad a committee ocrel of regulatory ula tors I 1 waited on him and his companion elder wilcox of garfield county and notified them to leave that part of the state the mob said that the ministers of the neighborhood had bad decided that the mormons cormons Mor mons must go no attention was paid to the warning and elder wilcox went over to a neighboring county to make arrangements for elder Th departure tor for home on sunday july ad elder thorup and some ot ol his friends were walking past a schoolhouse where a meting meeting was being held they stopped and listened a short time to the preacher a man named wright who was bitterly abusing abasing the mormons cormons Mor mons and urging the people to drive them out when alae wright got through he be came over to elder thorup and shaking hands with him said im through now DOW you can speak to the people if you want to at this some of those assembled called on brother thorup to talk to them but the larger portion of the crowd howled bowled derisively at him one man drew a knife aud and started towards him cursing and threatening Dingi miles moss one of the company interfered and ordered the would be murderer to stand back after a few hot wo words r ds the crowd dispersed the next day was the fourth of july and brother thorup who was quite jill ill stopped at the house of one of the saints a short distance from the be schoolhouse towards evening he way lying on OB some sheepskins sheep skins on the porch of the cab cabin in when a man who was wa near by remarked to him florup you a are re gone this time just then the de deputy aoe ut sheriff of the county stepped te ap pp up and looking down at him 1 said I Ive gotan an arrest for you at the same time drawing a pistol and pointing it at him elder thorup took up his bis hat bat and arose aros ewhen when the deputy said come out here theres fourteen men waiting to see you youre the presiding elder about here and we want you we dont want any ot of your d n doe doctrine trine 11 brother thorup went to the place indicated where the sheriff named brazil served a warrant on him charging him with assault and buttery and riot five of the men all non mormons cormons who had schoolhouse school bouse were also arrested on the same charges these were miles moss james woods thomas and leland lelana honeycutt Honeycut and tand beman stanson the complaint had been made by the preacher wright who claimed that the assault had bad been made on him though none of the accused had spoken to him except elder thorup who had simply said how do you do when wright shook hands bands with him the five prisoners were required to travel all night to walhalla to the prison elder thorup was closely guarded all the ibe way but the others ethers were not so carefully watched ar rived at the prison moss and the two were released on bail woods and stanson being unable to find sureties for some of elder bider Th friends offered ball bail for turn him but no sum would be taken bail refused he was thrown into prison r ison and notwithstanding his bufe enfeebled eblean condition he was placed in a dirty cell th the e only bedding being a rotten quilt wh while ae bugs worms and other vermin crawled about the floor and walls which seemed literally alive with them there elder thorup was compelled to remain f from rom early on wednesday july ath until the evening of friday july ath on oa that evening he was taken before the justice of the peace gaines by name on the way the sheriff told brother thorup there was nothing in the charge against him as it had ad been trumped up by wright for the purpose of driving the mor chlor mons out for said the sheriff they mean to hurt you yoland and Pet better go if any other elders come in here meet with violence about of the mob tried to get at brother thorup but the sheriff prevented them when they reached the court room it was found that moss and the two honeycutte Honey cutts had bad signed an agreement pledging their honor that elder thorup would leave after reading this the justice gaines said to brother thorup we cant have mormonism in our midst we wont have this thia man thorup about here these men have pledged their honor that you will get out and if you dont you will have to go back to jail brother thorup replied that he had a right as an american citizen to stay there he had broken no law and no one had a richt to interfere with him he further stated that it did not make much difference as he was pre preparing aring to go home anyhow but would not guarantee that other ciders elders would sta stay 1 away without further proceedings L rother brother cherup and the others who had been arrested were liberated no attempt being made to bring them to trial the next day saturday elder thorup baptized 13 new members into the church at that place blessed one child and ordained one priest to preside over the branc brandhof branchi hof Of 27 saints on monday he started home the lourney journey was quite severe on him and he be is at present afflicted with pain and more or less feverish but is able to move about aud will doubtless recover within a short time |