Show 2 THE LAW IS SUPREME I I i Bishop Sharp Virtually the Head of the Mormon Church Pleads Guilty Today But He Has Not Disobeyed Any Law Wilfully and Will Obey All of Them in the Future 3Iorover He Will Neither Advise 1 Nor Abet a Continuance of the Polygamous Regime Bishop John Sharp and now virtually i the presiding head of the Mormqn i Church entered the Third District Ii Court at 3 J oclock this afternoon and presented a statement setting forth that he had entered the plural marriage relation without knowledge of any conflicting con-flicting law and did not know the law required him to disown his wives and children He further stated that he was I now living in harmony with the provisions I of the law and intended to do so in the I future i Bishop Sharp has u host of friends and staunch admirers among the Gentile as well as the Mormon element who have observed for months the vital inroads of an eating cancer and a greater undermining under-mining of his useful career through a terrible ter-rible suspense anxiety and mental strain of responsibility In answer to questions aa to whether he would live within the laws hereafter Bishop Sharp said he would and promised prom-ised not to advise others to follow plural I marriage Ho was fined 300 and discharged from custody This a longlooked for move on the part of Isuch a representative man of the ruling Utah element and it lets in the hope of brighter days |