Show ALL MANNER OF EVIL FALSELY of THE perfidy displayed in spread spread- spreading spreading spread ing the most abominable falsehoods about the Latter-day Latter Saints Sain and their religion is truly appalling As Asan Asan an instance we quote from a late i issue of the Portland Oregon Telegram Tele Tele- Telegram 4 ti gram Speaking of the recent in- in investigation in investigation ve before the Third Die Die- District triet Court that Journal says I The fate of man many many who having vio viv- violated viva violated a fated the oaths of the Church had been subjected to great torture their t- t throats oU cut ti lOm rom ear to ear and their Fl F l- l intestines tE torn ont out proves the society to be a desperately murderous one This statement infamous infamous statement is made min m the face of the fact act notoriously ff known here that after the most i diligent efforts inspired by hy the hope DOpe of making political capital and satisfying ng their personal hatred of the Church the only case caser r of throat-cutting throat and alleged blood t atonement produced by the anti anti- Mormon anti t Mormon Liberals Liberal was that of William Green The latter latter was said J by the apostate Mormon Warden Wardell if on the witness stand under oath to J ha have ve been murdered near Green River in 1862 because he had left EV i the Church It f is proved beyond all possibility of question that not only was this tY same William Green never mur mur- murdered murdered murdered dered by havin having his throat cut etc I It but that he be is alive and well today t e is not now a member of the Ch Church I and is a resident of Spanish Pork Fork Utah County Utah P t c i i j C t f 1 At this point it appears to us to be bean bean bean an appropriate idea to once in a awhile awhile awhile while as occasion may seem Beem to de- de demand de demand mand present the affidavit of the murdered man ash as his is case furnished all the proof that was produced at atthe atthe atthe the investigation to show that the H Mormon religion involved the death penalty upon those who apos epos apostatized from the Church and dis dis- disobeyed disobeyed disobeyed obeyed the Priesthood Here it is TERRITORY OT OF UTAH Be CoUNTY or OF UTAH j jWilliam i William Green being duly sworn I Ion on his oath says I am an English Englishman man by birth five fifty years of age and now a resident of Spanish Fork anty Utah County Territory of Utah ed the plains in inn 1862 in Captain Dames Dame's company I knew a man by bythe bythe bythe the name of Wardell he crossed oros ed the plains and came to Utah in the same company as 8 I did We traveled to- to together to together gether until the company arrived at a point near William Kimballs Kimball's ra ch cb chin in Parley Parleys Parley's Park Bark where I left the train ahead of the company being anxious to meet my wife who was then in Salt Lake City she he having traveled over the plains the same ame season wi h Captain Hoyt's company I have lived in Salt Lake City and Spanish Fork Furk City since I came to Utah I was the only man by the name of Green that I know of who came came over in Captain Dames Dame's company No man was killed in that company by the name of Green or of any other name nor did didI didI didI I ever hear of any rumor of anyone any one being killed in said 00 company m pany until I saw the statement of Wardell recently in the papers I am not a Mormon nor have I been for several everal years I Iam Iam Iam am not a believer in Mormon theo theo- theocracy theocracy cracy but do believe it wrong to have any religious religions sect or body of people assailed by falsehood WILLIAM GREEN Subscribed and sworn to before me methis this day of November 1889 WILLIAM ORAL Notary Public |