The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-28
ATTEMPT MADE TO
INT|M|DATE WITNESS
Threatening Letters Have Been
Sent to Victim of Web
Greene.
EFFORTS MADE TO KEEP
HER AWAY FROM UTAH
Wronged Girl, However, Stands
Pat and viii Prosecute Her
Lecher0uS Uncle.
Special TO The Tribune.

Special TO The Tribune
MANJI. June 26.-I, came 20 light here
today that the tactics usually employed
when a member OF the dominant church
or a lack Mormon is caught In n viola
ton OF the statutes. TO wrlte Ietters at
tempting TO coercc witnesses, had begun.
As has been detailed in these dis
patches Web Greene. agent Of the Rio
s;rande railway AT Mount Plea SAINT, and
prominent church Republican politician.
was arrested and held 20 the district court
u; this judicial district on charge of
adultery with his niece Madse. Morey,
committed 1T is alleged, in his rome
Wnen the victim was under the influence
OF liquor.
Madge Morey left here last winter on
TRANSFORMATION furnished by this uncle,
this moral leper. Web Greene, Smooute
advocate and church politician. and VINO
also sent her money by express order 90
furnish her a place where she might go
until her baby, OF which he was the IA
Iher, was born.
might arise and that by suppressing the
matter the girl In the case might ne pro
rscted and in going somewhere else her
shame might not become known.
Deposition Is Outspoken.
However. her friends were inccnsed.
md they went TO work on the case. and
the result was a deposition was taken
from the wronged girl sant TO the au-
followed and his being here to answer IN
the sum of $1,000 is a matter OF record
In the Justices court al Mount Pleasant
Tribune readers who have followed the
case and who have read these dispatches
will bear out the fact that In these
dispatches the whereabouts of Madge
Morey has not been disclosed. this In
view that such disclosure would mean
the loss of her position which she now
holds, would attract TO her UNIQUE notlce
and thereby render il impossible for her
10 remain IN the city where she is no"
located.
Threatening Letters Sent
Today advices were received that the
authorities in the place where she is now
living have heen Informed that certain
persons in Utah have been sending Miss
Ncrey carefully worded letters warning
her and mpliedly threatening her that
she must remain away from Utah until
the case against her uncle is disposed Of
The Tribune representative has adNices
10 this effect direct from Miss Morey
herself.
These threatening and would-be coerc-
i've letters have had Just the opposite
effect 10 what was desired. Miss Morey
in her advices states that she cannot be
coerced: that Web Greene. her uncle.
ruined her; that he is the father OF her
child; that he furnished her transporta-
express money order which he sent her
has been turned over TO the chief of
police in the town where she now resides :;
that she has done al that she can TO as
sist her uncle, and that now if he and
his associates turn against her In the
effort TO assist him, she Will willingly
come oScE 10 Dtdn ana appear against
him.
Can Produce Letters.
In the advices which she has forwarded
she also declares that she has mum ber
Of letters. which, il necessary. she will
produce In court, which Will supply evl-
dsnce against Web Greene which he can
not refute or rebuilt.
Why Is Greene Not Removed7
People in this locality wonder why the
Rio Grande Railway company does not
remove Greene from his position as agent.
Reputable women have TO transact bust
ness with the railroad company in Mount
Pleasant. and they do not care TO have
10 do this through moral leper, nor do
they care TO put themselves in posi-
tion where they might be contaminated
Indirectly through a lecherous individual.
Meanwhile there are many rumors cur
rent here resarding Web Geene's career.
a dashing female Is now coupled with his
name.
There is little likelihood thai Greene
will resign He hopes by his connection
with the hierarchy as Jack Mormon
and through the church Republican
crowd to show that he like a majority
OF ;he twenty-siX members Of the her-
archy. can violate the law with i'm =
punity. The majority here and in the
county have determined 10 stand by the
wronged girl. hence Greene had better be
getting his house IN order. The people
declare that he must pay the penalty for
his crime