The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-25
HORIZONS LURE ENGLISH GIRL. TO THEIR SECT Man From Utah Europ- lined Miss Pap
 worth. FATHER HAD TO
 CALL DETECTIVES Interesting Story of Spread of Propaganda For
 Pologamy.


 her home in Newark, near Peterbor- ough, the fight of father against the AIormons 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 q curious light on the subterranean methods of the Mormons 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 10 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 eyes, and perfect com plexion.
 ''I have had to put up big fight to keep my girl out of the Mormons," said her father.
 It has been all the harder because have had to fight my girl as well as the MormOns. I have had to watch l for secret correspondence, and when open arguments and persuasion failed with Florrie, I had to write to Scot | land Yard to help me in the matter. ''Bewitchcd.' "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 small boy who was left destitute and homeless. The grandmother took 1 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 the name of L.inford, who wrote from Utah. He said he was a brother of the boy who had been l befriended and had become a Mormon, 1 as was the writer of the letter. Another letter came from the 1 same writer saying that his son, Will | liam LinfOrd, was on his way to Eng l land on a. Mormon mission and asking i us to receive him. When this man ar l rived he said he was William Lin l ford and we gave him every hospi- l taity, although did not like him or l his queer religion. He said he had a wife and three children in Utah. ''IIe made inquiries about my | daughter. She was then in domestic service in London, and We w,re fool | fsh enough to give him her address. The "Conversion." 'Linford went back O London, 1 jailed on my daughter, and took her about to theatres and other places of i amusement.
 l When I learnt of the intimacy be- i tween the two ] 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 i daughter to throw up her situation and he took her to lodge wita some | Mormon friends of his in Brixton l She then learned typewriting 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 par1 in Mormon propa ganda. Her mother and I did everything we could to per. 1 suade her against this, but she said she intended to go out to Utah and nothing I could do would stop her i When she came home for her holi-
 day about year ago she got permis. sion to tell LinfOrd she was at home
 She wrote at night and Linford had the letter the next morning. He wa. down here at 12:30.
 This made me suspect that thert
 was something shady going on, and we were glad when the mar went back to America.
 We thought that ended the mat. ter, but I discovered a secret cores pondence was. being carried on. found letters from Linford, 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 I will ob. tain the money, as I have cone or other occasions, and forward it tc you for your passage I told her that I would never consent to her going but she said she would go in spite ot me.
 Another Mormon.
 ''Then another Mormon appeared l on the scene. He saw my girl onIy once and afterwards went out tc
 
 daughter and proposed marriage. Flor. rie accepted him and when he return. ed to England he called on me an5
 laid a pile of money on the tabI, ! to defray the wedding expenses My daughter said she would bt i married in London from her lodgings
 and as this American, called E.steIlt
 Wright, said he was single anc take F1orrie to California and not to Utah | I consented.
 ''Ths wedding was arranged to takt | place on one Monday in May last
 But on the evening before the wed 1 ding Elorrie told the man s,le haC i changed her mind and would not mar l " him after all
 'As everything was prepared for ; | wedding party at Florries lodging
 for the next day, and my daughte had purchased her wedding dress, tn party and feasting were carried ou, | but there was no wedding, am Wright later left England for Cali l fornia. Then I heard that Florrie was stil