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Show , THE ACCUSERS' LIST. Salt Lake City abounds in lists if not in tournaments. The latest list of which we have heard is the accusers' list. This new list has on it the names of all witnesses wit-nesses who appear before the Grand Jury. We met a man this morning whose name is on th& accusers' list. That fact, worried him more than anything else could have done. He realized almost to the extent of frenzy that his name was onthe accusers' ac-cusers' list, for he knew that this meant in the community where . he dwelt, in his bishop's ward, he was a marked man, a suspect. When we saw . him he was agitated and - alarmed, and seemed to fear some one or something. He was apprehensive lest he had told something in the grand jury room that was not true ; at least this was what he said. This may possibly have been the cause of his alarm, but it is probable that beyond this was another and a better reason for his alarm. He had told in the grand jury room what he believed was the truth, and which was the truth, no doubt He reiterated this morning that he believed that it was the truth, but he said he could not swear that it might not be otherwise than he believed. This, he said, troubled him. It is more than probable that that which troubled him was what some one had asked him after he came out of the grand jury room, some one whom he feared because of the pressure such person might bring to bear upon him. This person probably asked him how he knew that the child he saw was a certain cer-tain woman's child, and whether or' not such child might .not have been the child of some other woman. Of course such might be the case, and this was ample ground upon which to have testified that he did not know who the child's mother was. But as a gentleman who was present pre-sent asked this man of whom Ave are writing, " , you have been at my house many times, have you not? Well, don't you believe that the lady of the house was my wife and the children whom you saw playing around the house and on the lawn, were my wife and children? chil-dren? Do you think you would have sworn to a lie if the Grand Jury had asked you whose children they were whom you - saw at my house and you had said mine?" The illustration was too apt for him to say that he had said anything improper before the Grand Jury. The fear which really possessed the man, who is of mild manner and in no way aggressive, in fact, .scarcely self-asserting, self-asserting, was that he would be thrown out of employment through haying his name upon the accusers' list, and he knew' that for him to be thrown out of employment was for, him to be placed at starvation's door. The man had been summoned . before the Grand Jury, and he had.no choice but to appear at the time set. Yet for this, this man is a tabooed man, and he feels that he will be watched in the future. fu-ture. Had he "'don't knowed" to the Grand Jury or answered all questions ques-tions with Jesuitical frankness and adroitness, he would not have been worried by his friends as to his answer. Those who know the man will not blame him for his apprehension, and those who know the influences that are brought to bear upon him, and their force, will . pity far more than blame this man. Tha case serves to show how things are done in Utah, and ; how all Mormons who do not make j false answers in a certain class of cases j in Utah, or who do not .deny all knowl-! edge when questioned before a court, are j -.watched and suspitioned and madg to feel that among the people whom they i think are God's people they stand as an j enemy without friends. j mm m . . |