The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-09

/ music, no prayer and no questions that
he could remember.
There was nothing but the mar
rage ceremony" he said with empha-
sis.
A Weak Memory.
well. tell US about that several
members of the committee demanded.
II cannot repeat it." said the wit
ness.
DO you mean TO say that YOU do
not know the ordinary marriage cere-
mcny in your church," asked Senator
Hoar severely.
Yes. I know that answered the
witness
And was not that what was asked?'
he was asked.
The witness said it was. He was told
to give the substance of it.
He said he and his wife stood UP and
joined hands.
Then they made YOU promise some
thing. did they note inquired Senator
Hoar.
yes. sir"
but YOU have forgotten what it
was p the senator remarked with a
laugh
oh. no: I have not forgotten" said
Mr. Merrill. He then said that he had
promised to love, cherish and support
the woman.
And did YOU continue to cohabi,
with her after you married the woman
You call your legal wife, Chairman
Burrows asked.
'on the Underground
The witness said he lived with both
wives, but that they had different
homes at Richmond, Utah. about
mile apart.
''YOu say yot1 v,-aro Ti,-;,,r- ,,-f.t --
mother when You were married the
second time Where was your father.
Apostle Merrill, at that timer" was
He was 'on the underground most
o. the time said the witness. iocu-
What do you mean by on the un-
derground p asked Mr.. Worthington.
He was in hiding"
Why was he in hiding" asked tho
chairman.
Because about that time there were
prosecutions going on for polygamy."
Mr.. Merrill answered. He said that
0ttentimes he would not see his father
for a month.
Mr.. Merrill said that he had taken
MS 1855 wife to his mothers home occa-
sionally. but that she had never STAYED
all night there aud that 50 far as he
knew his father did not know that he
had wife already when he was mar
RED by his father TO the woman he
calls his legal wife.
Big Bunch of Merrills.
AR Merrill said his father is stiH
lNlng, and Is still an apostle Of the
church. but that he is very feeble.
ID regard TO his fathers family Mr..
Merrill said ne had a father with six
wives. and that he had twenty brothers
ana seventeen sisters. He was asked
now many nephews and nieces he had.
ana said he did not know. but thought
there were more than 100.
My father lives with his first wife
ana comes 10 the home Of my mother
piooaoly not more than once a month
he said. My father is a very busy
mar the witness supplemented.
Mr.. Merrill thought three OF his broth
erS mad married plural wives. and that
TWO of his sisters had married into DO
lygamouS families.
Mrs. Matthews Testifies.
The prosecution called IN the stand
Mrs. Emma Matthews Of Marvsvilie.
titan. mother OF Mrs. Clara Mabel Ken
nedy- Mrs Matthews said she had
been member Of a Mormon family
Tor twenty five years and is a Mormon
herself She has been a plural wife. but
IS not now. Mrs. Kennedy is the child
OF Mrs Matthews FIRST husband. and
was borr before Mrs. Matthews became
Mormon. Mrs. Matthews said Mrs
Kennedy is 20 or p years old. and had
gone 10 Diaz with her parents sixteen
years ago.
MIS- Matthews said that while living
az Diaz she had known 8ir. Johnson
FOR two years prior TO his marriage 10 /
her daughter and that she had had
no objection 20 her daughter becoming
ms plural wife. She remembered well !
the marriage Of Johnson TO her daugb-
ter. and fixed the date definitely IN !
May S94
He just asked me If 7 was willing
-Eat be should marry my daughter. and /
said yes said the witness she
wanted TO wait until she was IS but
ne was not willing She saw both Mr. /
md Mrs. Johnson. the first wife. when /
-hey and the daughter who was 10 be- /
come the second wife. left for Juarez.
Did Not See the Ceremony.
You knew they were going to Jua- /
Yes
Did you know your daughter WAS /
70 be married then TO Johnson"
Il d.d not"
ng?-
I did rot know.
Then you did not sec her married.
Has she ever told you that she was 4
married To Johnson them"
she has not; 1 never asked her
Ihesc questions were put bv Mr.
Iayler When he concluded Mr.. Worth
iaston asked a number OF questions by
which fact was brought ont that Apos-
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