The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-05-16

| ducatc oelnB accepted as evidence that
The place was registered AS q place of re-
hgious worship, but the magistrates
oyerruled the objection.
The complainant, cross-examined BY
Mr. Wansbrough. said the book of Nor
mon was history Of the ancient Amer
.cans- He did not say II was inspired.
Orson Pratt was one of the twelve
apostles.
apostles?
Witness-Yes.
M. Wansbrough-Orson Pratt wrote
book called The Seer" and there he
asked What is the consequence If you
do not embrace the Book of Mormon
as Divine revelation2' aud the answer
was They will be DESTROYED from the
land. and sent down to hell like all
other
MIR. clifton objected to that line OF
crosS-examination. and said they had
no right TO go into the tenents of a
mans faith. They might all be cross
examined upon the tenets OF the Athea-
a-ian Greed every time they came to
that court. IL did not go to a mans
credit. and was not relative to the issue.
Mr. Lysaght remarked that they could
not impugn a mans belief. They were
devil worshippers and they believed in
him.
Mr.. Wansbrough remarked that II
people preached what was contrary TO
English criminal law il could not be re-
iigious worship.
Mr.. Lysaght-You are abiding to
bigamv7
Mr.. Wansbrough-Yes
Mr.. Lysaght-They do not recon-
mend that here. They are proselytising
here for performance abroad.
Mr.. WansbrOugh said that in that
case they were inducing people to 20 |
abroad for the purpose OF committing |
a breach of the law of this country and |
OF the United States. What they adj |
vocated was unlawful, aud therefore.
not religious.
Mr.. Lysaght remarked that all the
magistrates had to determine was
whether it was a place of religious wor-
snip-a religious service of some kind |
was being carried on there.
After some discussion. the mag strates /
ruled that the croSs-examination of the /
witness as TO his religious belief was If
regular.
Mr.. Wansbrough wished a note made
that he had asked the witness whether
the doctrine of MOrmonism was not n
doctrine of bigamv.
Mr.. Lysaght said that WHEN in SAT-
Lake City hesnet verv respectable old
-cotchman who had but one wife. She
died, and he never had another.
CrOss-examined-La Last September they
hail their meeting broken up by persons
who commenced singing. For he is
jolly good fellow
Mr.. Wansbrough-That, no doubt.
applied to you.
The complainant, in further cross ex-
animation, said there were several hun
dred persons outside.
Mr.. Lysaght-The defendant was the
cause of their meeting being broken up.
Mr.. Dean said he was a carpenter and
Joiner hv trade, and a missionary from
Salt Lake City. He coTrOborated the
the service, by the defendant.
Cross-exemlned-H He came from Salt
Lake. he was not Mormon but u
Latter-day Saint. Mormon was a nick
name which the world gave them.
Mr. Wansbrough-The world, the
flesh, and the devil.
Mr. Clifton-Tou were the last to call
him one. (Laughter.)
Mr.. Wansb 'ough ito witness Then
You are Mormon?
WItness-I am mott Mormon because
the world calls me one. | belong In The
Church OF Jesus Christ of s-atter-dav
Soints, and / have been sent over Is
missionary by the president OF the
church.
Mr.. wansbrough-Now, Dean
Mr.. Clifton-He is 4 dean OF the
church. (Laughter.)
Mr.. Wansbrough-Have you been
through what is called the endowmeu; ,
1ousel
Witness-I have.
Mr.. Wansbrough-Is it not necessary ,
here 10 take an oath that you will NOT
aspect the truth in any Gentle court2
Witness-No, sir; no such thing as
hat.
Mr.. Wansbrough Ito the magistrates)
Can ask the witness il he has COM {
nitted bigamy? g
Mr.. Lyssght-HoE does that affect y
lis credibility? /.
Mr.. Wansbrough-He might object y
o answer the. question as tending TO
riminate himself, II he has committed -
criminal otfense. n
Mr.. Lysaght-If you ask me whether !,
believe that gentlemen in the box,
ay do.
The magistrates ruled that the cues
ion as to whether the defendant had
ommitted begamy could not be put.
Sylvester Hardwick Vowles, living at
Yarmley, said he was a member OF the
after day Saints. He was . miller.
ut now out Of an occupation. He in VI
ended in three weeks time to leave forii q
ltah.s he corr0borated the previous Z
illnesses as to the conduct OF the de- a,
,ndant. =,
P. c. 81 d, said he was OH duty at the n,
all on the Sunday in question. De AZ
sndant and others were behaving in q
Isorderiy manner. There was large
rowd outside shouting. Defendant vi
as shouting the loudest in the room. S.
nd calling those there cut-throats and pc
Iurderers. tr
Mr.. Wansbrough, for the defendant, 60
lid that he should call on his behalf m
.veral witnesses who were wholly un- 50
nown to him, and therefore their evil FL
snce was disi2terested. They would Sc
ate that the defendant was sitting AZ
lie end of the room. and though IL was ~,
ne that be said TO Mr.. Webb, lis this - =
place Of religious sorship7" and got q n n
ply in the affirmative, he did nothing -
create any disturbance. It was ~
hers who we're in the room who threw =,
ben the windows, and then the crowd n,