Show THEY ARE JOSEP josephites RITES we have been asked a number of times lately who are tho the wren tham mormons cormons Mor mons it wai was thought by b y some they were members of the church of jesus christ of latter day sainta saints who had been brought into the church and organized into a branch at wrentham brentham Wren tham by some elder from utah such however ig is not the case r from rom the meager reports sent over the wires in some oinbe of abo telegrams it is difficult to tell scarcely 1 anything about it but a special 6 dispatch sent from dedham mass to the new york sun relates the matter in detail from which we make the following summary Wren brentham tham is a town in massachusetts chu but is not the place where the eo so called wrentham brentham Wren tham mormons cormons Mor mons were located they had established themselves in a village called plain p vill e which is twe two milca miles from north attleboro Att leboro they are said to be bathe the only religious body of any kind in the place they arc are not neither did they call themselves mor mons when the offenders were arrested and arra arraigned ig ned before judge rockwell they said the society to IM which they belonged was called the branch of the he be organ oryan iced church of jew christ of lat ter day samis thus it will be seen they are what are commonly called josephites they claim no connection whatever with the utah mormons cormons Mor mons the elders sent from utah on missions are not permitted either to practise or preach polygamy among the nations jackson evans 18 ia i an elder of the Joseph josephite itell he ile went to plainville Plain ville where it was testified under oath that evans kissed and stud embraced all the women including the wife of S A cobb who was the witness evans was remonstrated with but it had no effect on him ho he claimed to have a revelation commanding to do as ho he did mr cobb left the church mrs cobb went with E evans vans and 1 practised practiced polygamy miss kate L whitney of course was a single woman but she he gave birth to a child outside of the marriage relations akk E evans vans and mrs cobb were convicted of living in polygamy and miss whitney of immoral conduct the former was sentenced to three yeara years in the house of correction sentence on the others waa was deferred |