The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-23
WAS MRS. EVANS
]. NJ. TANNERS
PLURAL WIFE?
Papers Left by Dead Teacher
in Weber Academy Indi-
cate This Union.
LETTERS AND LOANS
INVOLVE EDUCATOR
HE DENIES MARRIAGE AND IN
SiSTs THERE WILL BE NO CON-
TEST OF WILL HE DREW.

Papers left by Mrs. Sarah T. Evans,
teacher of domestic science in the We
Der stake academy at ogden, who died
in Ogden some days ago, seem to show
beyond question that Mrs. Evans was
one of the plural wives of DIR. ]. NJ
Tanner. formerly superintendent of the
educational Institutions of the Mormon
church and one time president of the
Agricultural college at Logan. Mrs
Evans was the widow Of Prime Evans
of Leh who died about five years ago
The plural marriage must have beer
entered into, therefore, if at all, within
the last three or four years.
The will left by Mrs. Evans, devising
her small estate to two orphaned girls
she was rearing, was drawn by Dr..
Tanner. He Is nominated as executor,
without bond. Il is certain that when
this will is offered for probate, which
will doubtless be within the next few
days, a contest win be instituted. For
relatives OF the dead woman say they
will not permit DR.. Tanner to handle
her estate under any circumstances if
they can lawfully prevent him from
doing so.
one Of Mrs. Evans dnspaOple said
yesterday that upon the death of her
Ut
value of about s., 600. she found it ne
cessary to labor to support herself and
the two children. one Of them the
daughter of her dead brother, and the
other the daughter Of q brothe--in-law.
DR.. Tanner was at that time superin-
tendent of the church schools. Mrs.
Evans went to him and applied COr
position. He located her in the acade-
my at Ogden and almost Immediately
~ vim DTf 70, har
Borrowed Her Money.
The relatives of Mrs Evans have no
knowledge as to the exact date of her
entrance into the plural marriage le-
lation with DIR. Tanner, but they BE-
lieve it began within d comparatively
short time after she began her work as
a teacher in the academy. In any
event. the papers show that it was not
long before he induced her 10 give him
money with which to buy some land
near one of the Mormon settlements
in Canada. 1t is on this land that an
other of DR.. Tanners plural wives,
Lydia HOlmgren, is now living with
her infant child.
Whether the purchase of this land
was intended as an investment fo-
Mrs. Evans or not is not disclosed by
the papers. If this was the intent of
that she ever received any returns
from the outlay. And il IS known that
when Mrs. Evans learned that Dr.
Tanner had located Lydia Holmgren
on the property she entered a vigors US
protest.
Some months ago Mrs. Evans hOr-
rowed $500 from the Commercial bank
at Lehi. This money was turned over
by her to DR.. Tanner. When the note
fell due she was unable to pay it and
desired an extension, but the bank no.
titled her that she was expected to pay
the money at once. In her distress she
appealed to Dr. Tanner, writing him
fully about the matter AMI asking him
if he could not help her. While she
was waiting for his reply she fell III.
During the early part of her illness
she was grieVously worried over her
obligation, but she hoped against hope
that DR.. Tanner would come to her