The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-03
CANNON SAY HE TOILIES New Witps in the Reed | F,AOOt Case. s-- DRANK AND TALKED MUCH Said Smith Had Performed Polygamous Ceremony. Before Senate Committee, However, the Witness swears That He
 Was Not Telling the
 Truth.
DRANK AND TALKED MUCH

AAdy S.-AnguS M. cannon, IT, son of Angus NJ. Cannon, former president of the Salt Lake stake of Mormons in Utah. today informed the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections that he had perjured himself In Informing prominent "Gentiles in Utah that President Joseph F. Smith, of the Mormon church had performed plural marriage ceremonies"
 Cannon, Jr., was a witness in the Smoot investigation today. He said that he had told false stories in regard to President smith marrying his cousin, Aoram H. Cannon. to Lillian Hamlin, a fourth wife. His only excuse was that he had been drinking and conceived the idea that to tell such a story would be a good joke on the gentiles referred to. as anything against the Mormon tickled them all over.'
 Members of the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections received a com munication several days ago from E. B.. Critchlow of Salt Lake to the effect that Cannon would go on the stand and testify that Abram H. Cannon and Lillian Ham, lin were married on the high seas be- twen Los Angeles and the Cataina Islands and that President Joseph F. Smith of the Mormon Church performed the ceremony. Critchlow stated that Angus M. Cannon, Jr., had said he was present and witnessed the ceremony. Con- sequently arrangements were made for the meeting today.
 Questioned by Taylor.
 After the witness had been sworn he was questioned by Mir. Tayler, counsel for the prosecution in regard to the in- cident. The witness said he knew Abram H. Cannon intimately. as they had been associated together in business He said that Abram had three wives at the time of his death in the fall of 1&eo, but that there was no other wife he Knew about. He gave the names of the three wives as Sarah NJ Jenkins Wilhelmina M. Cannon, sister of the witness and Mary E.. croxall. Abram H. Cannon has had children by all of them.
 Did you know Abram to associate with a woman called Lillian Hamlin? asked Mir. Tayler.
 T knew he took her riding. He used my buggy"
 Did you know he was engaged to herr"
 'He did not say anything about that. He said she had been engaged to his brother David. who died on a mission to Germany. 1 never heard him say that he was engaged to her."
 Did you tell E. '. Wilson. of Salt Lake that you saw Abram H. Cannon and Lillian Hamlin married?"
 T think did tell him."
 The witness stated that Wilson is we'll known in Salt Lake is cashier of the Commercial National Bank and a gentle man of high standing.
 His Story to Wilson.
 In response to questions 1t was drawn from the witness that he had told Wilson vytthfp Iazt nLs hat tV.1 ty7 Los Angeles, ten or twelve chartered a vessel for the Catalina Islands ard that in the party in addition to himself. we're Joseph F. Smith and one of his wives; Abram IT. Cannon and his wife Wilhel- nina, sister to the witness: a man named Langford and Lillian Hamlin. After the boat had gone some distance from Los Angeles members of the party with two or three exceptions retired to the cabin and there Joseph F. Smith married Cannon and Lillian Hamlin. The witnesg said that after his sister. Can non's second wife. heard what was going on she "got angry and left the cabin"
 The witness. under direct examina- ton. said that later In the day on which he told the story to Wilson. he met Mir. Critchlow and MT. Wilson when he repeatedly substantiated the same story. When asked how he happened to tell the story in regard to the mar riage. the witness said:
 Well, had read the testimony which Mir. Smith gave in Washington and I told Mir. Wilson that I know that Smith did know of polygamous mar riages since the manifesto. because he had performed one himself"
 Mir. Tayler drew from the witness the fact that he had also telephoned to Perry Heath and made an appoint ment at the office of The Salt Lake Tribune. at which he told Mir. Heath the same story he had related to Messrs. Critchlow and Wilson.
 Are you still satisfied that Smith married them?" asked Senator Dubois.
 Thinks He Married Them.
 "Of course, I don't know that he married them. but think that he did" was the answer.
 The witness declared that the only person in Utah who knew that he was starting for Washington were the members of his family, his brother in law and the United States marshal
 Who told you of the ceremony on the high scar"
 My wife said she was satisfied it took place just as related"
 Any one else?'
 T cannot think of any others"
 lhe "ltueSS' m reply to questions Oy Senator McComas, said he had been drinking when he told the story about the marriage on the boat, and he did that as a joke on Critchlow and Wilson. who wanted to see the Mormons get the worst of 1t. He said he had never thought the story would go far enough to result in his being summoned to 
 When the summons came. he said, he told his brother law that what he had been telling was all hot air" and asked him to go to Wilson and Critchlow and have the subpoena with drawn.
 Was it all hot air about Langford and others you mentioned being on the boat?" asked Senator McComas.
 The witness answered he thought he had given the facts right about the but that he had not been present. He was asked If he thought the joke was a good one on his dead cousin and others he had drawn into