The Daily Tombstone., 1885-12-02
A MORMON PLOT.
A Scheme Worked i'm this City
 to Enlrap Gentiles.
Is. F. Chronicle.

Is. F. Chronicle
 The strenuousness of the Federal prosecution of offenders against the law for the suppression of polygamy in Utah has driven the Mormon lead CTS to desperation. It'is not surpris- ing that conspiracies are now heard of to turn its edge against prominent Gentiles, and that very clever prepara- tions have been made for carrying out this policy. Not the least interesting phase of the matter is the fact that a certain woman, long notorious in San Francisco for her lack of virtue and for her reckless acts, was selected as the chief tool of the plotters. Rec ently long list of Gentiles and apos- tates, who were marked for arrest un- der the law forbidding irregular co- habitation, was made out by the worthies of the Church. One of the first victims was Deputy United States Marshal named Nandercook, and he was brought on Monday be- fore Bishop Spiers, Mormon wearer of the judicial ermine. The proceed ings were interrupted by a writ of haLeas corpus, which commanded the production of the prisoner before the United States District Court, and an indefinite postponement of the matter resulted.
 MOLLIE WOODWARD AGAIN.
 Now comes the explanation of the affair. It appears that this raid upon the Gentiles and fallen Saints has been expected for long time. The conspiracy sprouted and grew in San Francisco. Some time in last July a lawyer and State Senator in this city wrote to Salt Lake to warn a promin- ent Federal official of what was on foot. A woman of the demi-monde, who is by far too well known under the name of MoIlie Woodward, came to his office and consulted him as to an offer which Lad been m ade to her. She was to entrap intended victims into the commission of acts that are contrary to the Fedoral law, and she was to receive $70O cash upon signing a contract agreeing to do this. Upon every conviction of the ofiense in question she was to be paid bonus oi Sl0O. The person who had ap. preached her with this proposition was a disreputsble man named Gold. stone. The attorney advised her to have q meeting with this person at a certain restaurant and at a certain hour, and arranged to be in the box adjoining the one they were to occupy He overheard the conversation. A contract was produced by Goldstone and both he and she signed it. Then the attorney suddenly stepped into the private cabinet. Goldstone was in the act of paying over the sum oi money agreed upon. The lawyer seized both the money and the con tract. Goldstone Was thoroughly frightened and disappeared.
 AN INFAMOUS CONTRACT.
 A copy of this precious document is as follows:
 This agreement, made and entered into on this 17th day of July, A. D. 1885, at the city of San Francisco, in the county Of San Francisco and State of California, between Daniel Goldstone, party of the first part, and Mollie Woodward, party of the second part, of the same place aforesaid wherein it is mutually agreed and understood that the said Mollie Wood ward, party of the second part, for and in consideration of the sum of seven hundred dollars ($7OO), to her in hand paid, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, agrees to go with the said Daniel Goldstone to the city of Salt Lake, leaving here on Sat