| Show MORMON Pin WilL GIRL SENT HACK BACK TO EUROPE Sensational Charge About the Church Printed in Eastern Eastern East East- em ern Papers NO FOUNDATION IN FACT Commissioner of Immigration i 1111 Sargent Declares res the I ic Got Go eminent Is IsS S Making No Xo I IU c Republican Special Service D. D C. C Aug AUK During I tho past few Cew days sonic somo sensational stories have havo been published hi In Washington and other oilier Eastern papers in lii connection with the debarment b by Immigration au authorities au- au of oC Susan Henry a child of or 11 ii years who was brought ht to this country by hy j 4 Bachmann an Elder Eider of or orthe the Mormon church whose home Is IsU U nt Shelley Ida The rime girl Irl was held up by Ly Immigration authorities ut at Boston on un Jul July 28 25 when landing from the steamship Arabia with Bachmann achmann At- At Attention was attracted t l tc llio tue little girl b by her evident grief caused by home home- sickness By Inv investigation it if was shown that liat Bachmann had hae whipped her while fin on n She was very anxious lo to o return home to her parents In Scotland Scotland Scot Scot- land where there ate saki lo to be ue Mormons Mor 1 lor- lor mon lions and us asi Bachmann could not show iny zoy papers authorizing him to lo hold her herand herand herand and as his statement with regard ard to ills his of or her tier wan WIH unsatisfactory the steamship company compan has bus hen been or or- or dered derel to return her hep and It has bus been lone done In lii th the official report there Is no suggestion of o Immorality In tho the case This was ViS the Iho story us ns obtained by n lL Republican at nt the bu bureau bu- bu u- u reau renu of ot Immigration rallon and It has been used Usel as ius IS a n. text as stated above for COt some very cry sensational and vicious stories aimed at tit the Iho Mormon ormon church chuich One Boston Doston Dos Des ton paper stated the Incident uncovered uncovered ered a n scheme on the tho part of ot ortho tho the Mormon church to obtain sturdy vigorous girls ami make them plural wives of or Mormons Hot lut Weather S Story ur This paper tho the Boston Traveler the Iho yellow yi-Ilow sheet oC or that city which originally originally originally origin origin- ally unearthed Shan tic scheme unfolded It In iii typo type an Inch big anti un u T cJ It In connection with pie plc- turus turm of or prominent Mormons However Vo It Is a hot weather story but ut never never- has liaa boon been cc taken a seriously 8 In Homo quarters I u One Oi I paper the tho wo u B h- h pot pJ oilier oth r things ihl K said v Cat cateR Cates 8 time trat the 1110 Mormon huOh I is n K g g d In In- Ina a hem u rh m for i of l 01 oi ot the tho Immigration of ot the country The showed this and several others others' of or Its kind In lo Commissioner of or Immigration Sargent toda today and ho lie authorized tho the that lint there thelo was Va- no iio evidence before Him which would In any anyn n way shape or form indicate that Mormons or tho Mormon 1 church was involved ell In Immigration frauds nor Was ivas he lie Investigating In to see If It there hull had be been beon frauds fraud of ot this character character char chur- acter and that he was not responsible le lefor for hair brained stories of ot this this- kind He suited 1 that hint it had been possible for Cor some sorn time that a n. great many and practically nil of or the lie parties arriving in inthis n this country in charge c of or Mormon l cIders ciders ciders' el elders cI- cI ders ders' landed landell In Boston Doston but the fact act that the they were con converts to the Mormon religion did not affect their entrance to o this country this being befu- a matter of or religious belief bellot over ocr which the Immigration Immigration gration laws do not and cannot play What hill Lain Lain- The rho laws forbid the entrance cn- cn trance into this country of oC minors without without without with with- out the tho lie consent of or parents or guar guar- Hans The laws we al also o prohibit tho Immigration Im un- migration of or persons for or Immoral pur- pur poses oses Tho Tim Immigration hold hohl hint hat If IC it Is established a a. woman Is for Cor the purpose to this country countr of or practicing polygamy am she ma may amy be P. P de- de ported More Mere belief in polygamy am as as- asa a religious doctrine how however cr would not warrant deportation they sa say ut lL tho the various ports par- par Now York ane and Boston will bo lie Instructed to l keep cep close watch and to lo report to Washington at once any women women women wo wo- wo- wo men or girls being brought over ever by Mormon elders ciders r All such Much persons will willbe be jc until their cases can be thoroughly 0 |
