Show the editor of the deseret Dc seret news characterizes an outrageous anti 1 mon assault scandalous beastly f ying statements from the columns of an alii mol mon character assassin sheet thus far the prosecution has been unable to make against charles white there being a complete failure in procuring testimony against him this brings down upon the heads of the witnesses a torrent of uie organ of the auti mormon crusade they are called liars and other vulgar epithets arc applied to them ibes cause alicy did not perjure themselves and testify to what they did not know no satisfied with this scurrilous mode of abuse the salt lake tri Alt invents its spleen by publishing a still more upon the accused and several of the witnesses were it apt that the matter in question appears to need some notice we would not now allude and unprincipled behcet which is a reflex of the character not only of its conductors but of those v ho are diabolical mormon people we must be excused on this occasion or quoting from its columns serve to abow its malicious and lying tactic whose object is to blast private character locally and spread a prejudicial impression abroad in regard to the mormon appended to its account of the preliminary proceedings before commissioner mckay inthe is the following scandalous statement the report that is circulating in th eward where white lives is to following effect some months a go te alleged polygamous wife elizabeth ann starkey found herself as sarah of old prayed to be and liable to reveal evidences before long that might go far towards landing elder white in the pani unlawful cohabitation and polygamy A general fright had seized upon the hearts of the polygamists inconsequence of the vigorous prosecutions just instituted against this class of offenders and was among the number he was too poor to run and in his own judgment tou obscure to be seen and caught if the growing evidences could be suppressed vicca conley the woman who gave her testimony in the examination reported above were engaged and so well did she do her work that an accident befell whites youthful polygamist wife it wae a narrow escape for her as she was very ill an d came near dying when she sufficiently recovered her strength she went home to her mother at hooperville Hoop erville near ogden accompanied by her sister to her she related what calling the ie ault by a name commonly given to accidents of the nature indicated su related by the young and inexperienced girl howrd plainly to the mother the real truth of the matterand the reasons for it but whether it was excused or approved by the parents does not appear on resuming to the city it seems that mrs wing told a neighbor and by the story gotto flying about the ward until it finally reached mr whites cars he undertook to suppress it by going to mra wing in the absence of her husband and abusing her for circulating false reports about him und his family what then transpired was related to wing on his return from work and told him by his wife was sufficient to raise his ire he went to whites called him outside and the between them occurred in thee treet it was not a fight but it was the next it arid attracted a crowd of wild heard the and motions interspersed with vile eps etheta that between athe two roeie the difficulty passed off for the time but was called by white before the bishops court where it was settled of course in the mists favor and ahe brother in law was given a meal of pie it was from this story getting current that white case reached the ears of the law authorities and b down upon chiai that he is a pious saint there can be no doubt otherwise the regularly employed church attorneys would not be defending him in court that the church authors ties know the facts there can be doubt m view of the investigation by the bishops court but they dare not abandon abito for though in the toila himself he like every other newly made polygamist holds in hie handia laah which he might apply to the back of the priest of the high solemnizes solemn izes ap pp lyga marriages we behold a horde of Mormon witnesses under church pressure committing penury in a court of justice to shield a brother who is the personal enemy of some of those witnesses hence we see tho priesthood covering up individual crime and exacting perjury to maintain the general crime of the church aad shield its arch criminals this case has in it a book on the utah beast the fellow who penned that article is known to be one of the most abject cowards that ever crawled and his journalistic associates can be made of metal scarcely less base to allow such a production to aps the columns of their paper they are character assassins of the most contemptible hue weak and helpless hence an woman is one of the victims of this assault but there is something due to those who are thus so slandered the statement of the tribune reduced to a few words is thai mrs conely at the instance of charles white and elizabeth ann starkey produced an abortion upon the person of the latter the prosecution is said to be given to taking from well being ac aused of giving buea to salt lake tribune let us take this itis it is but justice lo 10 the victims of this slander that the matter bo promptly and searchingly investigated cither before a commissioner or the grand jury if such a foul crime has been committed as alleged let the guilty be punished if they ure innocent this fact should be exhibited that they may be free from the stigma that has been cast upon them this morning a representative of the questioned the following persons upon the subject F starkey and wife parents of E A starkey chas white mrs conely mr called wing in the tribune article all of these stated unqualifiedly that they knew nothing whatever of the alleged crime having been committed in addition we are informed by bishop watson of the ward that no such case has ever been investigated vesti gated by him the insinuations about mor mori i mon perjury and covering up crime are known by the miserable being who penned them to be false aspersions some of the witnesses who are the victims of abuse arc not cormons mormons Mor mons at all while probably a portion of the balance claim no standing in the church and but little if any sympathy with it we propose to show who are up and advocates of crime this being a fair opportunity to exhibit the truth in that direction and why should the truth be smothered when its enemies manifest so much surface anxiety to bring it to light since the foregoing was written we have received a call from mrs conely this lady holds a diploma as a professional midwife obtained by passing through a collegiate course in sweden she ig batur ably indignant at the scandal upon her character and is for an investigation of the slander of which she has been made the victim from all that we can learn the whole superstructure of venomous aspersion was built upon an ex pressed suspicion on the part of mrs wayne eister of elizabeth ann starkey the intimation was groundless and in case the gation should proceed she would make a good witness in place of the church covering up such cricca as the one alleged no one guilty of them can retain standing in the community when is established by competent evidence |