Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-03-08
WOULD NOT AUTHORIZE It.
,,.,d Not be Performed at All, as the
Church Had Done Away
With II.
APOSTLE LYMAN ON THE STAND
n, and Charles Z. Merrill Admitted
They We're Living With All Their
Families at Present.

(specIal TO the "News.D
washington, d. c., March Sine
smoo, hearing today progressed RAPID
" During the morning session -FOUR
,.,,ressos were examined and two oil
,som Mrs Kennedy and her mother
wore excused from further attendance
csld their fees and discharged Tne
committee was late in getting together
os usual. Even Atty. Tayler failed to
eppear until 1910, and there were only
eys members Of the committee in their
Goats when Mrs. Kennedy again took
,be stand. That the ordeal she had
gone through was severe one was ap-
parent to every person In the room and
when at last she was permitted to Join
her infant and her mother In the room
OF the ergeant-at-arms, her cheeks
were wet with tears and her face was
flushed to q crimson hue. Her testi-
mony today brought out the fact that
she did not tell the man who married
her that her husband already had one
wife nor was she advised that anyone
else told her OF the fact, She made one
admission which somewhat overcame
the damaging character OF her state
ments Of yesterday, which was to the
effect that her mother had told her that
Apostle Teasdale had positively refused
to perform a marriage ceremony be-
tween Johnson and herself and had de-
clared that such thing could not be
done,
CHARLES f. MERRILL.
Before Mrs. Mathews took the stand
Charles +. Merrill was called upon and,
as was the case with President Smith,
surprised the committee with the
ffankness he displayed in answering all
questions The only important fact
ELECTED from him was that the cere-
Inony which united him TO Chloe Hen
bricks was performed by his father,
Apostle Merrill, In 1891, and that he had
wife living at the time to whom he
was married In 1883, but OF which mar
rage Ills father might not have been
aware as his wife Of 1883. Annie d.
s'oddard, was at the time living with
her parents on farm and had borne
him no children,
MRS KENNEDY's MOTHER.
MIS- Mathews, who followed Mr.. Mer.
tl' sWort that during her residence
IN Dlaz' Mexico, she became acouaint-
"a with Johnson, who subsequently
married her daughter, in Jaurez, about
WV years before that marriage. Dur
i'S one year Of that time she had re-
pea'edy urged Apostle Teasdale 10
.patry her daughter to Johnson, but he
nsa invariably replied that such cere-
~Ouy could not be performed, as II was
ssa'hs' The law Of the Church After
s''Vrlo'ng the manner In which her
oausn'er accompanied Johnson and his
,' Wle TO Jaurez, Mrs. Mathews de-
cared that her daughter had never told
.e' OF her marriage and she had no
N"o"'edge Of # from any source, "They
, were gone 10 days" said Mrs. Mathews.
lney drove up to the door one morn.
ing and johnson stayed a days ard
n'snt and my daughter followed him
we Following November. never asked
II they were married."
APOSTLE LYMAN ON THE STAND.
francis NJ. Lyman was the fourth and
,as' witness during the morning session.
lake other members Of the Church Mr.
lyman answered the volley OF cues.
, ,'o's nIed at him without apparen, hes
, ,.1uo, IN every instance, He freely ad.
s 1--we, hiS polygamous relations and
, "aue no attempt to excuse his admitted
, ''olS,on' OF the law except when he de-
.lared that he was born In 1870. and
~, ,.O," Inc time he was Ave years of age
r ,ou oeea raised in the atmosphere OF
n NJ. ' s ana that he has always felt
., pS neart and soul that the principle