The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-05-03

w Cannon, jrY son OF Angus AT.
Cannon, former president Of the
SAT- Lake stake of the Mormon church
In Utah, travelled from Salt Lake CITY
10 Washington 10 inform the senate
committee on privileges and elections
that he had perjured himself i'm inform
ing prominent Gentiles ia Utah that
PRESIDENT Joseph f. smith of the Nor
mon church had performed plural mar
rlage ceremonies. Cannon, ir., was a
witness ia the Smoot Investigation. He
said that he had told false stories I'm
regard 90 President Smith marrying
his cousin, Abraham H. Cannon. to
Lillian HamIin, fourth wife. His only
excuse was that he had been drinking
and conceived the idea to tell such
story would be a good joke on the Gen
tiles referred 10, las anything against
the MOrmons ticHled them all over
Committee Given a Pointer.
Members Of the senate committee on
privileges and elections received a
communication several days ago from
b. Is. CrltchloW Of Salt Lake, TO the
effect that Cannon would 90 on the
stand aud testify that Abraham II.
cannon and Lillian Hamlin were mar
1ied on The high seas between Los An
geles and the Catalina islands, and
that President Joseph II. Smith of the
Mormon church performed the cere-
mony- CritchloW stated that Angus NJ
cannon. jr-, had said he was present
and witnessed the ceremony. C0nse-
quently, arrangements were made for
the meeting today.
Young Cannon Sworn.
After the witness had been sworn he
was questioned by Mr.. Tayler. counsel
for the prosecution. i'm regard TO the
TrnTHErH
knew Abraham H. Cannon intimately.
as they had been associated together
IN business. He said that Abraham
had three wives at the time of his
death I'm the fall of 1886. but that there
was another wife he knew about. He
gave the names of the three wives as
Sarah H. Jenkins. Wlhelmiua Cannon, /
sister of the witness, and Mary T..
CrOXaM Abraham Cannon had children /
by all OF them.
Did you know Abraham to associate 7
with a woman called Lillian Hamlin?" I
asked Mr.. TayleT.
II knew he took her riding. He used 1
my buggy"
Did you know he was engaged to /
her?"
He did not say anything about that
lie said she had been engaged TO his I
brother, David. who died ON q mission .
To Germany. / never heard him say
that ne was engaged to her.
Told z. ". Wilson.
Did you tell r. ". Wilson of Salt
Lake that you saw Abraham Cannon
and Lillian Hamliu married?'
I'll think I did tell him"
The witness stated that Wilson is
well known in salt Lake. is cashier of 7
The Commercial National bank and a
gentleman of high standing.
i'm response to questions, answered i'm
the bFiefest of admissions. it was drawn
from the witness that he had told VIII
SON within the last two weeks that I'm
1896. in Los Angeles. ten or twelve pe0-
ple chartered "a vessel for the Catalina
islands, and that Enc the party, Bon adj
Gition 10 himself. were Joseph u. smith
and one OF his wives, Abraham TT. Can
non and his wife WilheImiua, sister to
the witness; a man named Laugf0gd
and Lillian Hamiin. After the boat
had gone some distance from Los An
Eeles. members of the party with two
or three exceptions retired to the ca bin
and there Joseph r.. smith married
Cannon and Lillian Hamliu. The wit
ness said that after his sister Canu0us
second wife. heard what was going on,
she got angry and left the cabin"
Repeated the Story.
The witness under direct examination
said that late in the day OF which he
had told the story to Wilson he met
dr. CritchiOW and AIr- Wilson and re- Z
reated substantially the same story.
When asked how me happened To ten
the story i'm regard 10 the marriage,
the witness said well I had read
he testimony which Mr.. Smith gave in
N Washington and I told Mr. Wilson that
7 knew that smith did know of pOiyg-
amous marriages since the manifesto
because he had performed one him
self"
Mr.. Tayler drew from the witness the
fact that he also had telephoned 90
Perry S. Heath and made am appoint
.nent at the office of the Salt Lake Tri-
5une az which he told SIR. Heath the D
same story he had related TO Aessrs.
@ritchlow and Wilson He declared
mat he had told no other person in re-
gard % the marriage. and that he had ;
seen no one except CritchlOW, and that
was ON the day he had received the
ARE you stil satisfied that smith 1
married them2' asked Senator Dubois E
"Of course 1 don't know that he mar =
'ied them, but 1 think tbat he did was
he answer
The witness declared that the only U
'ersons tu Utah who knew that ne was
starting for Washington were the
members Of his family. his br0ther-in- s
aW and the United States marshal
His Wife Thought So.
who told you Of the ceremony on z
he high seas2"