Round-Up | 1897-05-07 | Page 2 | Mormons Whipped

MORMONS WHIPPED alabama touch strip and whip elders eldera montgomery ala may 3 A party of religious partisans in jackson county carried into the woods stripped and severe severely ly whipped two mormon eldors didars the elders have appealed to governor johnson for protection representing that they had been threatened with death if they remained in the state slate the sheriff of jackson county has been instructed to make them his special charge the governor says the state constitution guarantees religion religious s liberty and tile the mormons cormons are entitled to it moreover they refrain from teaching or practicing polygamy and should not be liable to pe persecution elution because they believe the book ol of mormon to L be inspired