The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-07-09
THAT FATHERLESS BABE.
Wilson Presents a Statement
and Makes a Denial.
Editors Herald:

ticed that my name was published
in connection with disg ace'ul at
fair. and as reyeral mi statements
appear in the article referred to
deem it my duly in vindication OF
my character to make this reply.
[ hore that this is sufficient ap'l-
ogy for bring your readers with
this dieagreesble matttr.
To begin with l will say that L
think the "conundrum" Of your
correspondent in Wednesdays issue
was unwise and unfair inasmucd as
it insinuated thst Mr.. Tufts. the
"proplietor OF the house." might be
responsible for the "uneXpected aP>
pearance" at his hone, for Mr..
TUFTS is apparently gentleman and
certainly canuot be ans@erao.e Tor
the birth of the child; neither DO l
believe that he is responsible for
many of the statements made IL
the Tribune article.
AS near as I can learn, Annie
.Jo6nson, the now "husbandless
mother" whose home is in Spanish
Fork" went to Mr.. TUFTS as eer>
want in January CT February last,
and has been there since that time
On Sunday last [ was astonished
at receiving a lette from Mr.. Tufts
stating that this young woman
was the mother of child OF which
she claimed l WIS the father. l
sho led this letter to my wife and
brother, the Tribune TO The contrary
notwithstanding, and ny their adj
vice I immediately repaired to Salt
Lake City, thinki' G to atop the
spread OF the infamous story with
my nsm me c0nu' cted.
To my greater astonishment on
arriving at Mr.. Tufts home the
woman reiterated the statement she
had made to the family, and held
that l was the paternal guardian.
This is base and malicious false-
hood 1 was well acquainted
with the gill, hut have
been with her as her escort
not more than three or four times
| will give dates showing our re-
speciive whereabouts during the
few months within which she &C
cuses me
She went to saw Mill in Spanish
| Fork Csnyop, according to the
statement of the s crefary and
t me Keeper Of the mill, about
Augu lat, 1888, and stayed there
u1tii the 18th and 10th Of Septem.
Der, when she came down to Span
ish fork and stayed a week or ten
days; then returned to the mill and
was there a few weeks more l was
not there while she was there and
never have been at this mill. [ was
at Castle Valley from August goth
till September 10th and from
September Doth till October 3D.. AT
ter the last date I was in SPANS h
Fork. By compari gthe Sove dates
it will be seen that the only p9s.lple
time at which l could have been
with her was between the Sd aud
s h u October, as l came home or
he Sd. and she vent back to the
i, mill not later than the 8ih, AM
probably sooner than this. To toe
2 best Of my recollection l did not SEE
3 Ter 1t all during this me.
4sain, the words of one Il thu
mill off ers are, although she WE!
g quiet she was fooling with the boy
q a good deal while at the mill" ant
q the manager of the mill d
0 one tine chastiaed her fo
keeping late b .uts with younl
men. She kept company with
y young man abont that time who's
Y reputation for virtue is now en-
. tirely destroye and one of the mil
n hands makes an assertion regarding
b her "easv ways" which do not car
y to publish Let this suffice.
/. Now, I do not say these thing
i. simply to retaliate and much less t
/. bIacken the character of a helples
d female, but as che UNANIMOUSLY trie
10 to implicate me in crime with he
and as the mat or has attained sue
widespread publicity, l am com
PEELED to state these facts 10 clea
myself Of the nasty business.
IS Another strange phase of tie at
le fair is that she never limited no
q. WIZ tie to me of her condition, e.
IS thou. b I have been in Soanis
Fork ami Provo ths whole Of tb
IS time since last summary and as ia
J. as can learn she denied the trut
lie until after the birth of the child.
10 Now, in the face of all these fact
is it not most likely that she doe
rs not know positively who the fathe
IS of the child isP and as she did nc
ID know that I " as married until afts
Mr.. Tufts bad cent the letter to m,
10 concluded that she could get hur
Re band whom abe wanted by layin
f, it to me?
1t is stated in the Tribune that
said l was married May goth an
on the strength of this the ITIbui
says: 'and if he prevaricates abol
\. such trifling matters how must
le be when it comes to a matter
!. such grave Importance. Now,
ne never made any such statemen
Ii What motive could / have for say
I'd ing such thing when the truth
X was married June Goth? | wi
leave your readers to conclut
where is the preYaricstion, the wal
of hOl esty and virtue,