Republican farmer., 1919-08-29
HORIZONS LURE ENGLISH GIRL TO THEIR SECT Wan From Utah Europ- tined Miss Pap
 worth. FATHER HAD TO
 CALL DETECTIVES Interesting Story of Spread of Propaganda For
 Pologamy.

turn of Edith Florence Papworth to her home in Newark, near Peterbor- ough, the flight of a father against the Mormons for his daughter has ended in his victory.
 The story of this fight. in which triumph came with the intervention of Scotland Yard detectives, throws curious light on the subterranean methods of the Mormon in this coun- try. and suggests that their persiS- tence is due to strong financial back ing. It Is told exclusively in this is- sue of the Times.
 Miss Papworth. who had just re- turned to her native village to re- main in the care of her father, a farm foreman. had the reputation of being the village beauty when she left for London about three years ago. She was noted for her brown. curly hair. her large brown eyeH and perfect com plevion.
 CT have had to put up a big fight Co keep my girl out of the Mormons." said her father.
 It has been all the harder because have had to fight my girl as we'll as the Mormons. I have had to watch for secret correspondence, and when open arguments and persuasion failed with FlorTie, I had to write to Scot land Yard to help me in the matter.
 "Bcwitchcd."
 "Florrie seemed absolutely be- witched by the Mormon doctrine, and my efforts to wean her from it only ended in open defiance.
 Her association with William Lin ford, a Mormon with a wife and three children in Utah, had It's root in an incident We all thought was buried long ago.
 My girls grandmother took pity on a small boy who was left destitute and homeless. The grandmother took the boy in and fed, clothed, and edu- cated him. Wien he became a young man he went out to America and many years passed without a word from him.
 Then five years ago we heard from somebody of tho name of Linford, who wrote from Utah. He said he was a brother of the boy who had been befriended and had become a Mormon, as was the writer of the letter.
 Another letter came from tho same writer saying that his son. Will liam Iinford. was on his way to Eng land on a Mormon mission and asking us to receive him. When this man ar rived he said he was William Lin ford and we gave him every hospi- tality, although I did not like him or his queer religion. He said he had a wife and three children in Utah.
 He made inquiries about my daughter. She was tho1 in domestic service in London. and we wsre fool fish enough to give him her address
 The Conversion"
 ''Llnford went back London, called on my daughter, and took her about to theatres and other places of amusement.
 When I learnt of the intimacy be- tween the two I began to get anxious. Later I heard that when my daugh- ter's mistress found out that the man was a Mormon she forbade him to visit the House.
 Afterwards the man persuaded my daughter to throw up her situation and he took her to lodge wit. some Mormon friends of his in Brixton. She then learned ty-pCwritinE and shorthand and obtained work as a typ ist with a city firm.
 By that time she had joined the Mormon Temple in High-road, South Tottenham, and began to take part ire Mormon propaganda. Her mother and I did everything we could to per- suade her against this. but she said she intended to go out to Utah and nothing [ could do would stop her!
 When she came home for her holi- day about a year ago she got permis- sion to tell I4inford she was at home She wrote at night and Llnford had the letter the next morning. He was down here at 12:3O.
 This made me suspect that there was something shady going on, and we were glad when the mar went back Co America.
 We thought that epded the mat ter. but I discovered q secret cores pondcnce was being carrie d on. I found letters from Einford. persuad- ing my daughter to go out to Utah and join him there, and promising to find her the necessary passage money.
 ''In one letter he wrote l will ob- tain the money, as I have cone on other occasions. and forward it to you for your passage I told her that would never consent to her going but she said she would go in spite of me.
 Another Mormon.
 Then another Mormon appeared on the scene. He saw my girl only once and afterwards went out to France. He Corresponded with my daughter and proposed marriage. Flor
 
 ed to England he called on me and laid a pile of money on the table to defray the wedding expenses
 My daughter said she would be married fin London from her lodgings. and as this American, called Estelle Wright, said he was single ana take Florrie to California and Tot . Utah, consented.
 '"The wedding was arranged to take place on one Monday iA May last. But on the evening before the we'd ding Florrie told the man she had changed her mind and would not mar IF htyu after all
 c~- everything was prepared for a wedding party at Florrie's lodgings for the next day, and my daughter had purchased her wedding dr- ss. the party and feasting were carried out but there was no wedding, ana Wright later left England for Cali fornia.
 Then I heard that Florrie was still trying to get out to Utah and was corresponding secretly with the man in Utah. I felt powerless and asked Scotland Yard to help me.
 'Detectives wero employed. with