Show JUSTICE 9 how britain treats disturbers Disturb ers sious worship AN interesting oabe an unbiased deputy Bo cordor every benefit of tho W accorded from illy Sr pres the following interesting account of the proceeding edin ss in a case which was tried recently at sessions in thatty wherein the defendants in the case were charged ahli disturbing a meeting 01 ahe latter day saints in his remarks to the grand jury tho deputy 1 recorder referred to the matter as follows there was the casa of john taylor and joseph wood charged with als turbine persona assembled for religious ligi ous worship af the latter day saints chapel in notting ham if they found there was an actual disturbance persons accused their best plan would be to find a bill and it would bo ifor the court to consider whether the was one which was can i of parliament which made it an odense to disturb persons assembled for religious worship following is the report of the anal it trill b e sien taalo n of tho defendants plead guilty abile his associate was convicted Tayl brand joseph wood with wilfully and maliciously disturbing a certain meeting or congregation of persons for religious worship at the latter day saints chap el of no ve niber issa and wood mr toller said pi were indicted under anold statute of george III for disturbing chule necessary for all congregations of re licious protestants to have their of worship certified under the old certified by referred tb no clerk of the peace unde ate r statute the aind dutli victoria that waa donl by reference to the registrar general this body of latter day saints had a rectified place in st anna street il Km 1 0 0 n ila va bebb held and wood lishout ing to boine remark of the president in liis discourse die course a ilie the wished to ask question and there wa a rood deal of and campine tam pine of feet A discus disc ps iori en audd and mr toller on tha various statutes gelatini gelatins Gel atins to disturbances at religious the question being as to latter day saints would come under any of the statutes audi beds teds the deputy recorder decided to hear evidence A further discussion ensued asto alic admissibility of the certificate but the deputy recorder decided to admit it lor the arcs the evidence of mr burrows a carter the president of the latter day saints was h en taken alie defendants caine in u the concree a tion were alagine aln gine wood refused at arst to take lilt ht ofir corroborated what counsel eaid as to wood shouting out that B ahe both prisoners talked loudly and annoyed the congregation the witness added eliat the title of ohp church waa tho church of josua christ of latter day saints he pro decd the articles of faith which were fahd cd to tho deputy recorder Tho Deputy recorder eaid bethought mr smith discovered a bible or book or wrote it witness said ho dincov of mormon the deputy recorder Ke corder we ought to have em paneled a jury of bishops to decide whether these people are protestants or not laughter the witness in answer to mr toller said lie believed in the christian celision rel ision and tho deputy tho I aith they believe tiro bible to be the word of god as farbb it is translated cor erectly and believe the book of mormon witness having been examined in chief waa crosa eramo ined at bamo bomo lenetti by wood who was about to go into questions of doctrine lie was stopped by tho deputy recorder who said that he held for the purposes of today to day that th latter day were protestants aud alie waa proved for tha purposes of today to day and the question to be decided was as to ahe ilicia occurred for which hie defendants were responsible wood cross examined one of tuo wit nesses as to the whereabouts of ida wife and much laughter was caused by the stating that lib haduo objection to telling the court that ho had not doubt his alfo utah aw that he had not the doubr the was leading 4 vir life and not living in open another comans womans hug band he did not deny specifically that lie had up money to go to utah but heald deny that he had ebent itin drini laughter A witness for tho that berthad bere had been lowral disturbances at the sainta la consequence of bo natilio of tho in answer to the deputy recorder this witness gave example of the doctrine of the a inta that if wo dont have the spirit af pothering come up i on us and get to utah wo mchall all be damned A number of will the soli mormon for the de benec ohp dooies that wood shouted Thata alle one that what ho said was will you allow me to ask a question about tho lica youve boen admitted that there not camped by alto prisoner wood ag c billed as a wit for the dofine dof cne aind eald that r vi after the meeting on tho november wood and burrows camo up to him wood at once his card at borrowa request but burrows refused to civo hia until alio constable threatened to take him to john street the deputy recorder severely reprimanded the constable for ahn telling him ho had no power to do anything of the sort threatened when no luense had been committed lie advised him not todo so again wood delivered an intelligent and well words ed address to the jury he paid ho biad been so horrified at what he had read of the practice and doctrine of mormonism in utah that lie went to to aeo whether lift paints worn the came and found that they greali 1 the sr ie doctrine although they did not practice monism openly at braai there was a good deal of ip liing stamping and hissing but li nied that ho created any disturbance he waa n public anti lecturer and they were glad to lock him up an such a charge mr toller having replied tho deputy recorder summed up and re marked that mormonism might be i as its opponents faid but looking at the of the saints leaving ait what lie must call the nonsense nou sense of the plates he thought as far aa he was able to judge of such matters it was a very good and sound eort of religion Prison pra were found guilty and recommended to the mercy of the court the deputy recorder said it was evident ant there was a number of people in nottingham who were in the habit of making sport of these people ho trusted when it was known that the prisoners before him had rendered themselves liable to a penalty of he did pot ho biad the power to mitigate ind that the next time anyone was abrought up under such circumstance tf as they brought up eliat punish ment would be exacted the annoy anca would cease these and should be protected in a land happily tolerant of religious liberty the prisoners would each bo bound over in their own of CICO to bo of good belia vior for twel 0 months j it may be mentioned eliat taylor was formerly president of a society rail edthe nottingham anti mormon the following editorial comments on the case in question ap learch in the same paper fykin chich he article above is taken the quarter for thebo rough of nottingham were opened before mr M C buszard C deputy recorder the calendar contained 31 prisoners for trial lent of tho nottingham anti mor mon society and wood anti mormon lecturer were charged with rr eating at tha day bents chapel and each bound over in their own lecog ances to keep the for six iii onibe was raised in conned ion with tho case as to whether tho saints came within the meaning of the acta under which a prosecution for disturbing a congregation could be instituted tho deputy recorder held for the eipur trial that jhc thc a inta acio protestant the nest ilay after report wi here ap icare d tho foliot vins aad calir discussion of the subject in an editorial leader in the express from a yesterday it boull eleein that the ly troubles of the latter day mainla are by no means confined to their of utah in nottingham too the un believers them it appeals that the saints have a aug place into which not iong ago two daring outsider intruded any publicly disturbed the service of focal disciples of mormon the offenders were called to account in court for their behavior trial gayo rise some amusing incidents the deputy recorder 1 in his orthodox simplicity was under tho eliat joseppi smith the founder of tho sect had himself discovered a bible or written one i as a baal t ot faith for his followers one of the complainants explained that what smith discovered was the plates of a book of mormon which ho might have added they regard as i aart of this h did assist tho point at i fia at to whether the particular meeting in st annd street waa tho chich the law arivs to all places certified for protestant worship the deputy jocularly suggested eliat alic be settled by a jury of bishops a novel experiment in ome respects bo of eliut the chancia arb eliat ib verdict of alio pr alic claims of anybody outside their own church it settled that the nottingham Morn ions were to but then caine alie question whether tha two bufty of disturbing their congregation like larger de nominations they fairly claim to have their ucla na aliey aro arc edyed from hostile elon one of the defendant to have openly challenged the doctrines preached and be to pu what he culled tins alea they hiu 1 been telling content with this anor bilty lie ventured into ath ir to buo ouo of alio prosecutors aa to the of his Wife eliat lia biad no doubt the lady watt in utah and ho dd not deny that ho had saved up money to there apo but he did deny that ho go had spent alio proncy in drink if lie and hi act up to eliat spirit of gathering which alicy hope will awl them all to otili 4 liay bo that alio defendants bo of who wore boiled ovar to good for twelve months will havo no further chanco of repeating their it roust beho however bat alfo will sq a as the r wh 0 judging from 1 r s their articles of faith admitted tha theirs seemed a very and sort of religion anyhow it ia that so lone as the cormons mormons do remain in land of liberty they should not ba annoyed by stran pera who uninvited into their place worship nor should hoy b other wise molested BO long aft they keep clear of taft polygamy for which their co are threatened with expulsion from the salt lake city As bome ision was made in the course of alie case to the book of mormon it may be well in a sentence to recall its strange history prophet mith professed under angelic direction to havo found these wonderful en graven on plates nearly faight inches long by seven wide a little thinner than ordinary tin and bound together by three ning through the whole the volume was about fix inches in thickness a part of which wai scaled the hieroglyphics upon parts were small and represented an unknown language which lie called egyptian alone with the records was found ft curious instrument ment consisting of two trans pari elfr stones set in the rim on a bow fastened to a breastplate breast plate by means of these stone spectacles smith said that god enabled him to understand and translate the ancient records into such hemblo endlish as lie was himself master of his ande of translating them was peculiar he bat behind a blanket bung across the room to keep the sacred record from profane ayes and confessing himself to bd but a poor writer he dictated the translation to an associate at the other side of tho blanket only smiths owai and about half a dozen associates ever to have been those extraordinary plates which soon mysteriously disappeared but this sd called book of mormon was nevertheless cutforth put forth as an indispensable supplement to the bible andas and as containing gods revelations to the new world |