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

London. August 25.-With the re- turn of Edith Florence Papworth to her home in Newark, near Peterbor- ough. the fight 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 q curious light on the subterranean methods of the AIormons 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, q 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 mp a big fight to keep my girl out of the Mormons," said her father
 It has been all the harder because I have had to fight my girl as well as the Mormons. I have had to watch 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.
 ''Bcwitched.' ''FIOrrie seemed absolutely be- witched by the Mormon doctrine, and my efforts to wean her from it only ended in oIen 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 the boy in and fed. clothed, and edu- cated him. Wien he became a young man he went out 10 America and many years passed without a word from him.
 Then five years ago we heard from somebody of the name of Linford, who wrote from Utah. He said he was brother of the boy who had been befriended and had become a Mormon, as was the writer of the letter. Another letter came from the same writer saying that his son, Will liam Linford, 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 then in domestic | service in London, and We w,re fool ish enough to give him her address. The "ConVcrsion.' 'Linford went back O London, i jailed on my daughter, and took her ! about to theatres and other places of 1 amusement.
 When I learnt of the intimacy be- i tween the two I began to get anxious. Later I heard that when my daugh- l ter's mistress found out that the man ] was Q 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 typewriting and | shorthand and obtained work as a typ- | ist with a city firm.
 l By that time she had joined the | Mormon Temple in High-road, South | TOttenham, and began to take part ! in Mormon propaganda. Her mother
 and did everything we could to per | suade her against this, but she said | she intended to go out to Utah and ! nothing I could do, would stop her! When she came home for her hoIi- | day about a year ago she got pernis- | sion to tell Linford she was at home. 1 She wrote at night and Linford had | the letter the next morning. He was | down here at 12:30.
 1 This made me suspect that there ! was something shady going on, and we were glad when the mar went back l to America.
 We thought that ended the mat
 ter, but I discovered a secret corres- | pondencc was being carried on. I i found letters from Linford, persuad- ing my daughter to go out to Utah i and join him there, and promising to find her the necessary passage
 money.
 1 ''In one letter he wrote I will ob-
 tain the money, as I have cone on l other occasions. and forward it to you for your passage I told her that
 I would never consent to her going, | but she said she would go in spite of me.
 Another Mormon.
 Then another Mormon appeared 1 on the scene. He saw my girl only 1 once and afterwards went out to ! France. He corresponded with my l daughter and proposed marriage. Flor rie accepted him and when he return 1 ed to England he called on me and
 laid pile of money on the table | 10 defray the wedding expenses My daughter said she would be | married in London from her lodgings
 and as this American. called EstelIl
 Wright, said he was single anc take
 F1orrie to California and not D Utah | I consented.
 The wedding was arranged to take
 place on one Monday in May last
 But on the evening before the we'd
 ding Florrie told the man s,le had i changed her mind and would not mar
 " him after all.
 | 'As everything was prepared for g 1 wedding party at F1orrie's lodging.
 for the next day. and my daughter l had purchased her wedding dress, tn, party and feasting were carried out
 but there was no wedding, anC Wright later left England for Cali | fornia.
 Then I heard that Fiorr:o was stil
 trying to get out to Utah and wa
 corresponding secretly with the mar