The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-12-21
MANNING S. c.. WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 21 1904.

"And you changed it,"
Not the meaning"
You just changed the phraseolo
gy2"
''Yes, sir"
Then as I understand it," sale
Senator Burrows, when this revela
tion came tfom the Almighty, The
grammar was bad and you c rrecte6
it?'
The witness said the phraseolcgy
had not been ins s2ired, but was Presi-
dent Woodruff's own. This testimony
kept the eomnitte room in an uproar.
MI. Hanlin sal be was the brothe,
OF Lillian Hamlin, who, the protas.
tantS have tried to show, was married
|. to Apostle Abram Canron on the high
seas in 1895. Mr.. Hamlin said 1t was
the family convention that his sister
was married to MI. Cannon in the
summer Of 1896, and that the cere.
mony was performed by President
Smith on the Pacific coast. Lillian
was said by her brother to have been
an attractive young women. He said
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 daughter?" asked
Mr. Tyler.
mo sir, was the reply.
! J. II. Wallis, Sr., OF Salt Lake, said
he had stood proxy four times for
marriage Of living women to dead
men. BE had been through the eadow-
ment house twenty times. He was
asked to give the oaths taken by those
who participated in the ceremonies,
and this he did, together with de
scription OF the secret signs executed
by each person. Nearly all Of the OBJ.
legations were that those who took
part would not rev eal anything they
saw or heard, on penalties Of mutila-
tion OF the person, and everyone who
passed through the temple, said the
witness, was compelled to agree TO the
conditions laid down by the priests.
The penalties agreed to were given
by Mr.. Wallis as folio rs:
That the throat be cut from ear to
ear and the tongue torn out.
That the breast be cut asunder and
the heart and vitals be torn from the
body.
That the body be cut asupder at
the middle and the bowels cut out.
That if demanded we will give all
we possess to the support Of the
church.
The next obligation was one Of
chastity In which obligator agree not
to cohabit witty any person not given
him or her by the priests.
Another obligation was one that we
would never cease to importune high
heaven to avenge the blood OF the
prophets upon the nations Of the
earth OF the inhabitants Of the earth,
1 don't just remember which," said
the witness. This was followed by 4
quotation from the Scriptures, I
think Revelations SO, The souls Of
those slain cried aloud on the altaIs for
vengence."
Mr.. Wallis, When Cross examined,
said be had always considered the OBJ
legations in the light Of a joke, and
that be thought many others had con-
sidered them in the same way.
George 81. Bronhall, president OF
the Brigham Young university, Uesti.
fed that he had two wives, married be.
fore 1890. he said Senator Smoot fire.
quently addressed the students and
always urged them to obey the law.
Josiah Hickman, teacher In Brig
ham Young university, testified
that for ten years be lived with two
wives and had children by both OF
them. He said be had taken 40 steps
to conform to the la.@ Il relation TO
marriages.
'Then, as you understand 1t, you
are not legally married to your present
Wi!e?" asked Mr. Taylor.
No, sir"
The witness said he took the Wo-
! man, who became his second wife In
1890, to Mexico, and that the cere.
mony had been performed while they
were walking through the Country.
He said there were no polygamous
marriages performed in the United
STATES at that time.
Mrs. Margaret Geddes, of Salt Lake,
said she became the plural wife OF
Vim. Geddes IN Logan, Utah. She had
four children. Her husband died In
Oregon and sne then went to her hus'
bands first wife and there their baby
was born. Size broke down crying as
she gave this testimony. 1t vas
brought out that her husband died
thirteen years ago and that her young
est child Is five and a half years old.
She said she had not been married a
second time and refused to give the
name OF her Youngest child's father.
We Hold the Record.
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