Show 11 IM R ir 5 hock just another reference to hans han peter fleeces book betteis let teis from an atio apostate state tather to his son boil on page 51 51 the apostate cither tells of how bon he came to tale a plural wife ife he q si 13 b was nas in fit our town i a young oung girl arl a mormon who inho hid had just coal irom from Den denmark maik she was A as poor dressed pla inIN bit aas deiy no ne it she w u is a muted incited to ou our house i a num her ber of dimps in I 1 my m N wife ife insisted th thit it she ole should stay sta be one with ith us u and finally become my m second wife for I 1 must h hue a e it at least ono jthn ILI wife in fit order to fulfill ill all right ss but my mi first wife should 1 I be the quern quen ind and should rule her family for time ind all eternity the assertion is mide made that the first wife whom horn peter freece married 0 on I 1 the ship on his aa wa to utah insisted upon him tal ti ing the young girl aboe referred d to is as his plural wife thit that same assertion was made b bi hans peter a year air or mure more do ago in ill an inter few nith with a new nev york paper when the statement reached this office the editor interviewed the first wife of nir mr freece she is a resident of this cit citi is clear in all her mem memories orieE of the dla spoken of b mr free freece e ohe he states tint that she he did not give the leond wife nife to peter freccie nor did she he urge him to tike take wife ife bur bui that freece took the plural wife nife because they anted each other find nd UK first wile was not con suited about it the fact is that peter friech N wis IS the sime same by hi pointe j then that he i is now ile he entered I 1 lie he behe believed ed it to be 1 I 1 bue ind and no now he says say M first wife nife urged me to do it what an exhibition of nf an ali other ither fact la is patent in fit the book pub dished by b peter fleeces Free ces illustrious 7 on oil apte fre frici ca hal hai something mong iong in his upper story on page pace 55 v of the book he thus describes his condition I 1 1 I became a a fanatic and in my m I 1 zeal fled to the mountain and for three days preached to the trees andi and prated through the nights when hunger thirst and fatini fatigue e hid had weakened my mi mind and body bod I 1 logan to dream and see visions yes with ees it s emed that I 1 upon two ila anly messengers and alces tro maboNe above were nero ra in r preach repentance to these people later the angel gabriel ceded to lome come insuring me that he would be my guardian angel the third found me so famished that I 1 ingui t v vel el turied d toward I 1 lorn omo 0 coing till g tu to a field the first edibles I 1 could find NN were ere some raw rave potatoes after which I 1 had eaten cater I 1 was as afraid that I 1 h d sinned because I 1 had voaid to fast to fo three days he admits he vas insane then ard his apo rings in the prent volume are but the rumblings gs of a diseased and weakened mind hans peter is little better lie ile is IB a monomaniac monomania c with mormonism as the great bugaboo of his asies there are many men in richfield who remember the visit of peter treece at the time he wore his hair long and hill hib ravings at that time are oaid baid by them to have caused people to pity the man in his hie affliction just why he should commit his follies to tc writ antine iniz and why a son should delight in showing up the weak weaknesses of his parent panges all understanding |