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Show ProTO Excited. A sensation was created in Provo Sun-day.which Sun-day.which nearly resulted in the lynching lynch-ing of George Sburtliff and Isaac Clark, two young men well known in the town. It is charged that they induced two young ladies named Adams and Lunsford to visit Shurtliff's drug BWre last month and then administered drugs to the girls from the effects of which . they became easy prey to the lecherous passions pas-sions of the accused. The Charge is rape, and . the parties were arrested ar-rested Sunday and brought before Justice Brown yesterday, when they were requested re-quested to give bonds in $7,000. They were unable to furnish the required sureties sure-ties and went to jail. The girls are represented rep-resented as about 17 years of age and are. of Mormon families, as are the boys also. The feeling against them became so intense in-tense yesterday that there were rumors of lynching, and the excitement had not subsided to-day. |