The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-13
REED SHOOT CASE
 IS BEFORE COMMITTEE
Reynolds . Polygamist.

Reynolds . POlygamfst.
 Are you pofygamist?" MT. Taylor asked.
 Have you any children married in polygamyT
 T believe so; one daughter"
 "To whom Is she married?"
 If married. it 8 to Benjamin Clough." The witness explained that the mar riage had taken piace in Mexico, but that he had no knowledge of the cere- mony and never made any inquiries concerning it. It was brought out by MT. Taylor that the witness had dis played no curiosity on the subject of the marriage because he believed the marriage to be a plural one. MT. Reynolds testified that he has twenty.six children. He gave the names of the seven presidents of the seventys of which he Is the fourth in rank Three of the seven were polyg- amists. He (Reynolds) had two wives now.
 o. If you were to marry another we man tomorrow. which would be your legal wife?
 A. The one last married.
 O. Would not that be adultery?
 A. It would be If l continued to live as the nuSUdnu VI IhC WV me, but I do not sustain such relations with more than one.
 Mir. Reynolds said he understood that the manifesto of 1890 permitted him to live with his plural wives with out violating the law but that no fur ther wives could be contracted. Wit resses acknowledged that he has had children by two wives since the man. ifesto of 1890. Witness had never preached against polygamy nor had he tried to get others to do so.
 Mir Reynolds said he did not know of any effort made by any officials of the church to carry out the provisions of the Woodruff manifesto putting an end to polygamy.
 Mr. Reynolds said that he was one of the advisers who said in perfecting the woodruff manifesto which was first submitted in President woodruff's s handwriting. He testified that the committee had revised the manifesto.
 Changed Revelation.
 q believe the manifesto is said to have been inspiredr' asked Chairman Burrows.
 Tt was a revelation from the AL mighty"
 And you changed it?'
 Not the meaning
 You just changed the phraseology?" Yes: sir" Then as understand it." said Senator Burrows. when this revela- tion came from the Almighty the gram mar was bad and you corrected ttr The witness said the phraseology had not been inspired; but was President woodruffs own. This testimony kept the committee room in an uproar. John Henry Hamiin eof Salt Lake City, the brother of Lillian Hamlin who tho protestants have tried to show was married to Apostle Abram Cannon on the high seas in 1898. said 1t was the family conviction that his sister was married to Mir. Cannon in the sum mer of 1896 and that the ceremony was performed by President Smith on the Pacific coast. Lillian was said by her brother to have been an attactive young woman. He had not heard from her for four or five years and did not know where she was now. She had one child, he said. a daughter who goes by the name of Martha Cannon.
 Well. nobody doubts that the child is Abram Cannon's daughterr asked MT. Taylor.
 No; sir" was the reply.
 On cross examination that witness said he had no positive proof that his sister had married Cannon. His sis- ter had attended the funeral services of MT. Cannon and her child inherited the estate of MT. Cannon.
 Adjournment was then taken until tomorrow.