The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-03-24

Mrs. Kennedy who was born in New
York of Mormon parents, went to
Mexico as child and grew up, she
said, knowing nothing of world
where polygamy was unknown. When
she was II James Francis Johnson es-
poused her.
He already had one wife," witness
declared, "and she and I talked mat
ters over"
Apparently the first Mrs. Johnson
was willing, for she and her baby ac-
! companied her husband and his bride,
Mrs. Kennedy, on their wedding trip.
Where were you married. asked
| Mr.. Tayler'
AT the home of a. c. Mcdonald the
counselor 10 'Ile ll[sI pIeSIuent Oh lIe
Nio lIllon s'aOe' al 'au'eS' MeNlCo'
pIled Ine WA'ness'
neH o,,
May H. 1850
w no married you
Brigham Young, the apostle
She lived with Mr.. Johnson about five
years, she continued part of the time in
the same house with the first wife and
part of the time away from Mr.. and
Mrs. Johnson, and had two children.
She separated from Mr.. Johnson at the
end of five years and about year
later married Mr.. Kennedy, an Episco-
paIlah' out she sun renamed IN the
mormon church'
senator Foraker was anxious Ior IN
FORMATION regarding the ceremony al
Jaurey, out witness could remember
lttle except mat MI Johnson Brother
1ouhg' ana MI McDolalu were pre-
sent Ihere was no prayer she salu,
but she remembered she stood up ana
answered yes TO several questiohs'
why dld you separate from your
husband senator foraker asked
we'll couId not STAND the pressure
any longer she replied
Were you not treated right"
mo sir l was not"
! would you have stayed if you had
been? 1t was not because you were OPP
posed to Mormonsm?"
II am a Mormon still" she said
Though 1 am not a very good one"
Witness became confused several
times under ss-examinatiOn and
made some contradictory statements,
which, for the most part, she corrected
I later when her attention was called to
them by the prosecution. She was
unable to give a description of Apostle
/ Young.
Senator Dubois opened the days pro-
ceedings by producing the Utah census
returns for 1890, to show that instead
of only or per cent as Mr.. Smith
had said, there were about 23h per
cent of the Mormon adult population
living in a state of polygamy in 1890.
Senator Dubois gave it as his opinion
that there has been no material reduc-
don in the number since.
Answering Mr.. Worthington, Smith
explained the church division into
wards and stakes, and the machinery
through which charges against any
person had to be brought and passed
on. He said the apostles had nothing
to do with the judicial affairs of the
church. They preached the gospel and
sent missionaries to other fields, but
met the president and one or two other
officers weekly to discuss the affairs of
the church.
Mr.. WorthingtOn inquired whether
a. any of the joint meetings the ques-
ton of polygamous cohabitation had
been discussed. Mr.. Smith said it had
not, adding that Senator SmOOt had
never advised for or against the con-
tinuance of polygamous cohabitation.
Then turning to the legal status of
husbands with plural wives, Smith said
none ha6 been convicted since the
manifesto of 1890 and that all the con-
viction' under the Edmunds law were
while Utah was still a territory.
A list of the first Judges elected after
Utah became a state showed that the
former territorial Judges We're chosen
without exception, and that all Of them
had formerly sent mormons to prison
for polygamous cohabitaiOn. The pur-
pose of this was to disprove the in
ference that the Mormon church dom
mated the courts.