The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-02-03
ANGIE NEWMAN.
THE HERALD,
Salt Lake City, Utah

THE HERALD gives a long and patient /
hearing this morning to MIS-. Angie f.
Newman. The lady has someho" got
ten il into her head that The HERALD
has called into question her veraclty,
has dissrusted her motives and done
something which entities her to vim
dication. Welet her have her say, and
all of it. Last fall THE HERALD copied
from the Congressional Record part OF q
speech delivered by Hon. John I. Game,
in. which he exposed some of the most
outrageous misstatements made by the
lady named and which had been printed
in the Record. In doing this he read
letters from Marshal Dyer, Warden
Pratt, Penitentiary guards and Clerk
Mcmillan of the Third District. 1t was
these letters which disproVed Mrs.
Newman's word, and it seems to Us that
she should have sent her communica-
ton to the Congressional Record and the
gentlemen named, instead OF to NE
HERALD which was responsible neither
for her false statement nor for Its
exposure. In her petition as printed In
the Record, Mrs. Newman SAID she
found in the "Penitentiary two girls,
one IA, one Is, who were married to
their own father, both with babes"
The warden, the marshal and the
guards showed that Mrs, Newman
found no such persons in the Peniten-
tiarv, as none were there. After these
five months. the lady comes With an
exclamation that her secretary was re-
sponsble for the falsehood, he having
linked those babies up" as it were. 1t
is somewhat remarkable that khe didn t
think to have the correction made in
the Record, or in some Of the eastern
papers which published the mistake, "
as she was in Washington at the time
of the publ cation. Even now
the lady seeks to excuse herself anG her
secretary by asserting that the latter
had gotten hold of paper which gave
sketch Of two Morlon girls, aged IA
and 16 years respectively, leach of
whom married her own father" and
this sketeh was furnished by parties
thoroughly familiar with all the
facts" Now, The HERALD doesn'k for
q roomen5 doubt that Mrs. Newman
believes this story, nor do we doubt for
amoment that everybody else is con-
fident that she has been impo:ed upon
by parties who knew how easy it was tc
gull lady who wanted to be deceived by
such ridiculous stories.
The trouble with Mrs. Newman anC
some others is that they accept as true
the cock -and-bulI stories which crankl
and liars rstail to them, and then repea
these romances with their endorsement
and veri6cation, just as the lady Is do
ins in her communication with ref
erence to the IA and l6-year- Old girl
who married III cir fathers, and just a
she does with reference to the volumes
of testimony f;om Mormon witnesses
Then when they are picked up ant
shown to have circulated what, il tn
mouths of men would be ISLANDERS ant
lies, they assume to feel abused AM
mAltreated.
Mrs. Newman claims that the Nor
mons never had a better friend thai
she, and calls on the holy ones to wit
ness that her motives are OF the pures
and her methods the most upright
THE HERALD cannot speak for the Nor
mons, bat from its knowledge OF som
of the utterances of the lady, notabl
those in the Congressional Record peti
ton refer Ell to. We imagine the Saint
will Tray earn, silly to be saved fror
such friend, and that they be turne
over to the tender mercies OF thel
enemies.
THE SUNDAY PAPER.