The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-17
MORE DETAILS OF RoMNEY.

MORE DETAILS OF RoMNEY.
In tho Manti Messenger of last Fri
day we find another reference 10 the
unlawful marriage of Miles A. Romncy
in the Manti temple on November 3
1909 The article is printed primarily
to show that President Anderson OF
the temple had no knowledge, previous
TO performing the ceremony, that
Romnev was possessed of Il wife oI
wives in Mexico. On that account The
Tribune takes pleasure in making quail
fed correction if any impression to
the contrary that may have been gained
from our comment upon the matter
made heretofore.
But the article in the Messenger
sheds a little moro light upon the cir.
cumstances attending the marriage, and
incidentally it exposes the fact that new
Mormon polygamists are the greatest
liars in existence, And in order to give
proof of this assertion, we can do no
| better than to reproduce what the Mes.
senger gives as being the real facts in
the case, as follows:
The day Mr.. Romney appeared at the
! Mantl court house for a license, Clerk
Eliason was in Moroni attending city
| election. Mr.. Romney arranged with
! President Anderson TO hold the temple
/ open later than usual for his marriage.
| stating he had TO leave the city next
morning on the S:l5 train. To pass the
| time away ne hung around the court
! house. and walked into the trap that
proved his undoing by stroling into the
! treasurer's office. there meeting the only
/ person lnru
Jensen a brother OF County Treasurer
! Jensen. Mr.. Jensen accosted him by say
ncy" lie replied his name was Archi-
| bald Romney. brother OF Miles 4.
He then went 10 the station, met Clerk
! Eliason. who went 10 the court house and
| Issued n license after hours. and after
Jensen had left the building. He at once
! proceeded 10 the temple, and was mar
rIcd and left town on the Sis train next
morning.
! When Niels Jensen came TO work at Q
o'clock that morning he learned Romney
! had come for license. He examined the
Miles \, all right and told Clerk Eliason
| that he had n legal wife In Mexico. the
| FIRST time this fact had becn mentioned
! in Manti. The clerk notified President
Anderson at once. and he in turn called
| Mr.. Romncy. who had now reached Ne
phi, and who said his first wife was dead :;
| that the woman he married here was one
he had taken by n plural marriage that
| he was now making legal, AS 10 who de-
serves the credit for the expulsion con-
Germs MS not, the object of this article
! being to show that President Anderson
had no hint OF Romney's having a wife
| when he performed the ceremony here.
| We think that we are able to add a
few facts concerning the Romney
criminaIity that may help the Mes
senger in any further investigation of
the case that IL may desire to make.
Miles 4. Romney married as his first
wife Miss Frances Turley; as his sec
ond he took Miss Lille Burl; as his
third he married Miss Lizzie Burl.
Now. the woman he married at the
Manti temple, in which proceeding
President Anderson oficiated, was
Emily Burl Thomas, and she became his
fourth wife-his third polygamous
once married to Andrew Thomas. While
she was still the wife Of Thomas,
Miles A Romney induced her to
abandon her husband and come 70 his
own bed. He lived with and CO.
habited with the woman for over a
year before he took her to the Manti
temple to place upon his adultery the
seal of the Mormon priesthood. That
adulterous living with this woman was
what Romney told the Manti people
was his previous polygamous marriage
that he had just made legal. The
fact is that he did not make it legal,
and that he is still living in adultery
with the woman. for the reason that his
legal wife, Frances Turley Romney, is
now living at Colonia Juarez. Mexico
All of Romney's IS polygamous crimes
have been committed since the issuance
of the Woodruff manifesto of 1890.
AS previously stated by The Tribune
in this article. we are glad to absolve
President Anderson from the impress
xl,,,4 L. l,I l. 1. 4.
fact of Romney's criminal marriage
provided the Manti Messenger has
got the matter straight. But we have
seen so much of Mormon polygamous
crookedness, and hoard so much of the
downright lying of that lawless cult,
that we may be pardoned for still
entertaining a fair suspicion that the
ceived. Romney's lying statements in
this case, and as the Manti paper has
exposed them, furnishes justification for
never believing word the devilish
homo destroyers say. Besides, it looks
to us to be a bit strange that the county
clerk should have issued q marriage
license to Romney after hours, Romney
stranger and no questions asked, and
that the temple should have been
kept open by President Anderson after
hours for the performance of the cere-
mony, and that Romney should have
skipped the town of Manti iu such
hurry the next morning, and that no
public information on the matter WAS
given by either the Manti Messenger,
| the county clerk, or President Anderson
of the Manti temple, until after The
Tribune had repeatedly exposed the now
notorious Miles A. Romney. The fellow
should be in Jail, and would be if the
Manti and the Salt Lake authorities of
the Mormon church performed their
duty.