Ogden Evening Standard | 1910-08-31 | Page 4 | Is Elderkin Truthful?

IS ELDERKIN TRUTHFUL? The Reverend Noble Strong Elderkin, it appears, is not as truthful as some people think he is. On the witness stand yesterday yester-day he said gambling was going on "last night." When Judge Johnson asked, "How do you know?" Elderkin replied, "Chief Browning told me so last evening." Chief Browning was asked about the matter and he said, ''Mr. Elderkin is mistaken. I never told him gambling was going on last evening; furthermore, I did not leave my home last evening. I remained re-mained at-home with my sick child." The Chief's daughter died this morning and the chief did not want to discuss Elderkin or anything else. It is a-shame that anyone any-one should misrepresent a man in the hour of his deepest bereavement bereave-ment when his anguish is so overwhelming as to make a vigorous reply re-ply impossible. A minister of the gospel is supposed to possess charity char-ity which forbids such conduct and a great majority of them do, but Mr. Elderkin is not within that category. He is willing to drag a city official, by false accusations, from the farewells at parting, if, by so doing, he may make himself just a little bit more conspicuous, conspic-uous, ridiculous and brutal.