The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-09
EVIDENCE IN FULL.
Young Merrill Thinks BE Evaded the
Law.

Law.
Washington. March S-Afrs. Mabel
Kennedy resumed the stand today in
The Senator Reed Smoot case before
the senate committee on privileges and
elections. Mr.. Worthington. for the de-
fcnse, continuing cross examination OF
the witness, inquired as TO the rea sons
Tor her marriage being contaminated
at Juarcz. Mexico. instead OF at the
Mormon settlement of Diaz, where she
lived. She said she knew Of no reason
and had no information regarding an
attempt TO have the ceremony per
formed eiseN where. she said she did
Not tell anyone that the man to whom
she was to be married had another
wife and, so far as she knew, those
performing the ceremony did not know
The marriage was 10 be a plural one.
Later Mr.. WOrthmgton asked Mrs
Kennedy il she did not know that ap-
piicatiou had been made 10 Apostle
Teasdalc and that he had refused to
conduct or TO authorize the plural mar
Tiage.
What did he say?" asked Mr.. wor-
thingtou.
He said IT could not be done. as all
that had been done away WITH said
Mrs. Kennedy.
Witness Got Tangled.
MI w oliilillEiOu tdlitu dLLentlOn 10
the Inconsistency OF the statements
and ne asked why she had said she
did not know a request had been made
L. another TO perform the ceremony.
II don't know how / happened TO
say that. said the witness. Continu-
ing. she said with some emotion. 1T
was not pleasant for me to think Of
those things, and / tried TO put them
aside. tried 10 forget all L couia
about it."
IN response TO further questions from
Air. Tayler. the witness said her moth
er told her of the request OF Apostle
Teasdale and that she had no other
knowledge OF the attempt 10 get him
10 perform The ceremony.
Young Merrill's Wives.
Charles F. Merrill. "a sen OF Apostle
ANerrill. was then called 10 the stand.
He said he was the son of his fathers
third plural wife and is himself a
DOlygamist In answer 10 questions
concerning his own marriages, Mr.
Merrill said he was married first in
1857 20 a wife that had died i'm 1889
and that he married his legal Wife
Chloe Hendricks, i'm 1891, and had I'VE
children by her. He married another
wife IN 1883. the ceremony being per
formed i'm the Logan temple by NJ. G.
Edwardson. He has had four children
by that wife. the oldest of which is ,
years Old and the youngest 21a years.
Their mothers name was Anna 2.
Stoddard.
The marriage to my legal wife in
1891. 80 said MI. Merrill. was solemnized
by my father"
Were you living with Anna b.
St0ddard when you married the wo-
man whom you call your legal wife?''
was asked.
''I was. although she had no house
She stayed at the home OF her father
and her mother. ard ] lived with my
mother" answered the witness.
His Legal" Wife.
In answer to questions from Chair
man Burrows. Mr.. Merrill said he has
now two wives and is cohabiting with
both
senator Foraker asked the witness: ]
you legal wife?"
"No, sir
Mr.. Merrill explained that when he /
married i'm 1883 he had "a wife hv- /
ing and that he understood that under 4
the laws that marriage WAS not legal ]
and that therefore his marriage in 1891 |
after the death OF his first wife in /
13Se. made his last marriage "A legal I
spne.
Senator Ovcrman asked for descrip-
tion Of he marriage ceremony in 1858. 1
Ind the witness declared that he could 4
not remember how 80 was performed. :
except that he went 10 the temple IN 4
Logan and it was performed there. In I
response 10 . question by Senator Du-
bois. Mr.. Merrill said there was no
marriage certificate issued. no record
or any documents OF any kind So far /
a. he knew. he said there was no /