Show Five Additional Members Are Excommunicated From Church Announcement vas made maJe 1 of t e excommunication from the L. L L D D. D S 8 church of oC five additional members or of orthe ortho the tho East Tintic Cooperative Agricultural Agricultural Agricultural tural society by which name the cult established by Moses S. S Gudmundson is is known The persons excommunicated as a a a. result of the third church trial had previously been low low- II shipped by the church authorities for alleged practices contrary to the Mormon Marmon doctrines and beliefs Those excommunicated in this most recent development of the tho Gudmundson cult are Thomas D D. D Nisbet Levi G. G Metcalf Jr Mrs Mary Man Warren Metcalf Mrs Ella Hafen Hafen Ha- Ha Hafen fen and Mrs Della Delia Hafen Haten Whyte They were severed from all connection connection connection tion with the church of ot which they had been lifelong members by the action of or Tintic stake the Mormon ecclesiastical body which has authority author author- ity over the territory In which the Communistic society was established The first step of or these five at th the time when five other members of the colony were excommunicated excommunicated excommunicated was taken In March utter after two church trials had conducted a a. searching Into the new doctrines doctrines doctrines doc trines and revelations which Gua- Gua and others claimed to have had I Testify Testily t to Wife rite Exchange E One of the tenets of the new cult to which the church authorities took ook particular exception was what they termed the doctrine of wife sacrIfice sacrifice sacr- sacr fice flee and In accordance with which it was testified at the trials some of the men had bad exchanged wives While no explanation was forthcoming forthcoming forth forth- coming from church authorities authorities authorities' rel garding the cutting oft off from the I church of ot the additional me members ItIs Itis it itIs Is believed that their failure to discontinue discontinue dis dis- continue practices at variance with the church teachings and their determination determination determination de de- de- de termination to continue to follow tollow in inthe inthe inthe the footsteps of their leader Gudmundson Gud Gud- Gudmundson were the Impelling motives In persuading the authorities to take recourse to the fullest extent or ur ch church discipline discipline u tion County Attorney T. T H. H Burton o ot of Jual county together with Sheriff Dan Martin and others made the ar ar- ar- ar trip to the home of th the colony in the East Tintic mountains for tor the purpose of taking the testimony o of the cult members themselves to de determine de- de determine termine whether or not legal action will be taken against them The theory of ot Gudmundsen's Gudmunds ns n's hypnotic hypnotic hypnotic hyp hyp- power has gained much c irren c-irren- cy among those who knew him in 1 inthe inthe the days of his devotion to music and former pupils of his tram Irom the Brigham Young University spoke of the mans man's great personal magnetism These last excommunications make a total of thirteen followers of Gudmundson against whom church discipline has been enforced It is said that there are now at the community community community com com- home homo In the East Tintic mountains but eight families and that all of the heads of families still there have been been either excommunicated excommunicated excommunicated or The branch of the L. L D D. D S S. S church established in the colony at one time has long since been ta taken en away and the undertaking Is utterly beyond the pale of or th the church The investigations now being made will determine whether or not the practices which violated the church law likewise have violated the law of the country |