CRIME IN RUSSIA.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3723, 24 November 1906, Page 4

CRIME IN RUSSIA.

Another Outrage by Terrorists

St. Petersburg, Nov. 21

Terrorists killed a policeman at Odessa and then robbed ;he Odessa Navigation Company’s office of four thousand roubles. The assassin who killed the Commissioner of Police at Kurgur, in the Perm district, has been arrested. Arresting Refugees. The Finnish Senate has yielded to the demand of the Premier (M. Stolypin) that it should co-operate with the Russian police in arresting refugees,, whose trial will be conducted before legally-consti-tuted courts. TOO MANY WIVES FOR ONE HUSBAND. President of Mormon Church Arrested James Smith of Salt Lake City the president of the Mormon Church, has been arrested because he has live wives. The United States authorities have long watched Smith’s frequent plunges into matrimony, but the birth of another child, bringing the total of his offspring to forty-three, was too much even for his monogamist brethren, and they decided to attempt to check his wayward career. He was arrested at the instance of the monogamists, and he will be tried by a Mormon court', some members of which are said to have made experiments in polygamy. Smith has really been married six times, but one wile divorced him. His five wives live in the same street in separate houses, which are connected by a passage at the back, so thaJ-Sraith on his round of visits may not have to go by the street. Certain days are set apart for each wife. He pays all the bills of each household and makes allowance in proportion to the number of children. Hach family has an average of about a year. Smith’s salary* as president is ,£IO,OOO a year, and he makes another ,£SOOO in commercial enterprises. I