Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-07-17
Escaped From Morlnons
Sad Experiences of a Plucky
English Woman.
ABOUT MORMON METHODS.
The Indeceneies of the Endowment House
Mrs. Rutter's Husband Murdered
and His Property Confiscated
-"God and the Saints"
ABOUT MORMON METHODS.

| CHICAGO, July 1B--Mrs Elizabeth
| Trumbell Rutter is the latest victim of
| the Mormons of Utah, who, she alleges,
| murdered her husband, confiscated what
little property ne left, and then, when
she refused to join the church, turned
her loose on the world to find her way
the best she might to her home in North
Shields, a few miles from Newcastle-on.
Tyne, England. The poor woman ar
| rived in Chicago Saturday, and while
asking her way to tho British vice con-
sulate, fell on the street, fainting from
exhaustion caused by four days fast
ON the train from Ogden, Utah. She
was revived by small dose of beef tea,
and sent to the county hospital
Mrs. Rutter is possessed of true Brit
ish pluck. 1t WAS about six years ago
that a group of Mormon elders arrived
at North Shields, where Mrs. Rutter
lived with her husband, her daughter 10
years OF age, and her 1S-year4old SON.,
Meetings were held and the Mormons
held out golden promises to all who
would join the church and emigrate to
Utah. Mr. and Mrs. Rutter were Metho.
dists, and did not attend the meetings,
but the boy was caught by the glittering
inducements, and though his parents
begged himite remain decided to go to
America. He bid his father and mother
goodbye, AMI left with the first vessel
load, promising to write when he ar
rived here. But the time went on
and NO word was heard from the
boy, and the father decided to go and
look for him. Soon after Mr.. Rutter
sailed the mother received letter from
her SON, saying that the Mormons had
taken all his money and had prevented
him from writing home, until one day a
lady had given him five cents, with
which he bought stamp.
Mr.. Rutter arrived in Ogden about
three years ago and found his son. He
was unable. however, TO find work. Be
ing a Gentle, and knowing that the wife
must be suffering for the necessaries of
life, he declared his intention of Joining
the church. Then things were made
easy for him, and he was taken into
partnership by farmer named Joseph
| Holbert. From his first savings Mr..
Rutter took $40 and put it in an envelope
with letter to his wife, telling her that
hewould go home as soon as he could
save enough money. The letter was
given to Mr.. Holbert to. mail, but
stead, Mrs. Rutter received, in
care of the Mormon missionaries, al
her home, letter purporting to be sent
by her husband, saying that the inclosed
money was to pay her way to Utah and
that she was to sail on the first vessel.
Mrs. Ruttef obeyed the instructions and.
in charge Of Elder Charles Henry Green
wall ,set out vita the next Consignment
of en,igrants. Her Treatment on the yas-
| sci, she says, was terrible. The Mormon
| elders, In the name of God and the
| Saints,n submitted one woman to a
grossest indignities. All repuIses were
| met with the argument that the elders
| were licensed by the church OF which all
| were to become members. Some few of
| the women resisted the advances, and
they were repaid with the most cruel
neglect. On arriving at Castle Garden,
| Mrs Rutter was i'll from the effect OF
her voyage, and was treated with the
utmost Indifference, while the women
! who had been more accommodating to
the elders received every attention. It
was three days before they started for
| Ogden, and on her arrival there she was
met by her husband, wno had been
| notified of her coming, but was at
q loss to understand the reason
| of 1t. When he heard of the let
| ter he was more indignant than ever,
and the couple resolved that they would
1 leave as soon as circumstances would
| permit. 1t was resolved to keep their
! determination secret and pretend to
| join the church. Mrs. Rntter announced
that she would be endowed as soon as
she felt spiritually pure enough. Mr..
Rutter said. he would go in with his
| wife. The pressure was made so strong
| that they were about to go through the
ceremony of joining the church, when a
lady who had recently been endowed,
| told Mrs. Rutter about 1t and she re.
| solved that she would die before SUBJ
! mitting to the indecent ordeal. She told
her, husband of what she had heard
and ne, too, resolved to keep away from
the Endowment house. By one excuse
| or another the endowment ceremony was
put off from time to time until last
August, when the crop On Mr. Rutter's
farm was about ready to cut. 1t was
| good season, and the proceeds, with the
money which could be realized ON the
! sale Of the horse, COW, and agricultural
| implements, would be more than suffi-
| cient to take the couple home Then
| one day Mr.. Rutter told young Mormon
| friend Of his intention. Two days later
he was brought home dead, drowned,
though there was the mark Of terrible
blow on the back of his head, and the
blood was still oozing from the mouth
| and nose
| ] here was no pretense of an investiga-
| tton, and when the woman demanded her
husbands property she was told that 1t
belonged to the church. She was told
4 that If she would go to the endowment
house at once she would be given a
| young husband, and would be received
into the community. Mrs. Rutter re-
| served her answer for the night, and
4 during the night she fed to Ogden City,
| where she found employment. in hotel,
1 and she remained there until week
1 ago when she thought she had saved
enough to pay her passage home. She
bought ticket to Lincoln, Neb., ans.
j one from New York to Newcastl In
Lincoln, on buying her ticket to Chicago
she found that she had but S12 left
Afraid to spend cent of her little hoard
4 Mrs. Rutter wonld not buy anything tc
eat, and when she left the train fell te
the street through sheer exhaustion.
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