Show I a I THE STARTLING SEQUEL John Q J Cannon the Excommunicated Mormon Bishop Arrested For Polygamy The Alleged Second Wife Evades the i Officers and Takes to FlightThe Examination Postponed A Decree of Divorce Granted to the Legal Wife The Busy Days Following Fol-lowing the Confession The events of this morning formed the I startling sequel to the great sensation created by the recent confession of adultery made by John Q Cannon a bishop of the Mormon Church and seen from their varied attitudes they are scarcely less surprising that the original quake itself J At an early hour this morning Marshal Mar-shal Dyer with a posse of deputies appeared ap-peared at the farm of John Q Cannon on the other side of the Jordan river anJ immediately began a thorough search for the skipping Apostle who was supposed I sup-posed to have been secreted within the confines of his sons house THE SEARCH FOR GEORGE Q Vas fruitless and without taking the precaution to leave a deputy at the John Q farm the officers proceeded to the house of the Apostle which is about a mile away Here they were still unable to find the father but they saw the son John Q out in the yard and having a warrant for his arrest they brought him along When they had left the farm of the younger Cannon there were present I fohn Qs two wives and their mother EmmelineB Wells but when they returned re-turned they found that IOUIE HAD SKIPPED Some of the deputies immediately went in search of her and it is said tracked her to the willows along the river bank but here she evaded them and they were obliged to give her up for lost In the meantime naners had been served upon Mrs Annie i WellsGannon John Qs first wife and upon Mrs Emme line B Wells and they were brought to the city in company with the bishopric less bishop Appearing before Judge McKay Cannon was required to give A TEMPORARY BOND OF 5000 And the examination was set for 1 p mAt m-At that hour however Mr Richards attorney at-torney for Cannon appeared and asked that the case be put off until 9 oclock tomorrow to-morrow as he had not had time to con suit with his client This was granted and the principal and witnesses left the offices in high spirits and with promises of punctuality for the morrow TIlE COMPLAINT In the case stripped of its legal encum brances reads as follows D W Rench on oath complains that ohn Q Cannon of Salt Lake City Salt Lake county on the 1st day of August 8SG at Salt Lake City having hereto fore married and taken to wife one Annie Veils Cannon then and there and while he was so married to the said Annie Wells Cannon did unlawfully marry and take to wife and was then and there married to Louie Wells It will be seen the marriasie to Louie Veils is alleged to have occurred on the 1st of August last just a little more than a month before his decapitating confes sion and that the complaint was sworn out on the 6th of September just OXE DAY AFTER TIlE CYCLONE Af the bi r TVi h As soon as the news was circulated on the streets the excitement ran high and all the old interest the confession was revived and rediscussed Everybody was wild to know when how where why who the late bishop had married and people seemed entirely unwilling to wait for the development of facts As the talk went round a reporter of the DEMOCRAT got wind of something which no one would have thought to suspect sus-pect and following up something hardly worthy the name of a clue he struck a leak which throws aNEW a-NEW ASPECT UPON THE CASE Investigation shows that on the 8th lay < < of September 1886 just three days after the great Tabernacle sensation Annie Wells Cannon filed a complaint against her husband John Q Cannon in the lrobate Court of this county and asked that a decree of divorce be granted her on the ground that he had been guilty of adultery and she iurther asks that she be given the custody and con trol of the three children and such other relief as the court shall see fit to grant Enclosed with this document is the answer bearing the same date and signed with the same violet ink as that used by Mrs Cannon in signing the com plaint by the defendant John Q Can non in which he wAnEs TIlE ISSUANCE CE AND SERVICE OF SUMMONS And states that he is willing to have the case go to trial at any time Next comes the following document issued on the 9th day of September In the Probate Court in and for Salt Lake County Utah Territory Annie W Cannon Plaintiff vs John Q Cannon Defendant This cause coming on for hearing and i trial in open court this ninth day of Sep tember A D 1886 on complaint filed and waiver of defendant as issuance or service of Hl1mmnna nr1 L auu UUlIURlnt ana his consent that the case be heard by the court at any time and the court hay ing heard and considered the testimony produced and being fully advised thereon now enters the following FINDING OF FACTS I That the plaintiff is now and for more than one year last past has been an actual and bona fide resident of the city and county of Salt Lake Territory of Utah J IT Ih + I e jirtiuuu ana defendant intermarried the 17th day of March A D 1880 at said Salt Lake City and have ill ever That since been husband and wife there are now living three children the issue of said marriage to wit George Q Cannon Louisa Cannon and Margaret Cannon IV That the said defendant i ng his disregard marriage vows committed crime of adultery the V That the allegations plaint are true of the com As conclusions of law from the fore going facts the court finds That the plaintiff is entitled to a decree of this court dissolving the bonds of matrimony heretofore and now existing plaintiff and defendant between the The court further finds that the tiff is entitled to the plain hildren custody of her Then comes the decree which is on the ame sheet of paper with the above document and bears the same date September 9th After reviewing the grounds in the usual legal style it the divorce and grants gives the the three wife custody of children named above PECULIARITIES There are several 1 peculiarities nected with the con documents and the man F i 0 ner of proceeding which would immediately immedi-ately strike the legal eye as strange in the first place the fact that the complaint com-plaint and answer were filed on the same day and signed in the same ink is something rather unusual though perhaps per-haps not pertinent In the second place although the plaintiff asks for the custody cus-tody of her children and such other relief as the court may see fit to grant notwithstanding that all the facts alleged in the complaint are admitted in the finding despite the fact that the poor womans life and home had been wrecked by the mans act in the face of all this not one word is said in the decree about alimony or such other relief as the court may see fit to grant Then there are no lawyers mentioned men-tioned a thing heretofore unheard of in a divorce case pretending to be legal and lastly the whole thing was done up in two days and kept a profound pro-found secret which but for the events of this morning would have lived only with the principals and have gone with them to the grave A POLYGAMIST FOB A MONTH It will be seen by reference to the dates given above that whether or not the divorce di-vorce will hold water if the prosecutor can prove the offense as alleged in the complaint the Probate Court proceeding will be proven fruitless The complaint alleges that he married Louie Wells on August 1st and the divorce was not granted until September Sep-tember 9th so presuming the complaint to be right as to the date Cannon was at least a polygamist for a month TALK UPON THE SUDJECT At the time of the sensation at the Tabernacle Taber-nacle it was believed by many that Cannons confession was only a bluff to put the officers off his polygamous track and as soon as the arrest was made this morning it was freely stated that it was made upon the above hypothesis but when the complaint com-plaint is seen with its definitechargo and bearing date but one day later than the sensation above mentioned this theory loses much of its plausibility That John Q Cannon had married Louie Well has been generally believed for so long a time that the mention of it now seems like old news hut it was for this very accusation that Cannon thrashed a Tribune reporter and it is a matter that has been discussed more in private than in public Could it be shown that the confession was a bluff no punishment could be too great for the exbishop and whether or not there are any developments of that kind both Saints and sinners should join in the belief that this is only the dispensation of a just Providence Provi-dence to the man who has blighted the lives of wife and children and brought them down to share the disgrace which must be his lot forevermore |