AN ENGLISH WOMAN'S TALE OF OUTRAGE IN UTAH.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1974, 19 October 1888, Page 2

AN ENGLISH WOMAN'S TALE OF OUTRAGE IN UTAH.

A pale-faoed little woman, giving hei name as Elizabeth Tarnbull Ratter, formerly of North Shields, England, mi picked np la the streets of Chicago, Indiana, U.S., recently, apparently faint* • tog from hanger. She olalmed to have had nothing to eat on her four daya' trip from Ogden (U.), en rcut* to her old home In England. She told a terrible atory of experiences among the Mormons (says a despatch m the Boston " Sunday Herald.") Her young son, ste stated , had been luduoid, against ths wishes of his parents, to join a party* of emigrants organised by -Mormon missionaries In England. Not hearing from him, It was learned that he had been prevented by elders from writing. The father. frantle with anxiety, followed to Utah. He found employment with a Mormon father named Joseph Holbert, bat was unable to save enough to help to continue the setroh until he pretended to join the ohnroh. Then Batter got money, and sent some to his wife, bat all his letters telling of the oonditton of affairs In Utah were Intercepted, and others sabstitated arglng her to oom.e to Utah with the mlc aionary. She obeyed, and asserts that the wumea m the party were subjected to i fearful indignities en route by tha elder*. Rutter was murdered shortly after she joined him. He had Inadvertently given a yoang Mormon an Inkling of his' plans to find bis boy and esoape. The Mormons averted that Ratter's death was accidental.