A MORMON OUTRAGE.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3879, 4 June 1881, Page 2

A MORMON OUTRAGE.

The correspondent of an English'paper,■-■» writing from Utah, says:—"One day I saw a woman running across the fields to a neighbour's house, pale and trembling. When she came in, she looked round her, as if she ware frightened, and shft "eifctitT if anyone beside the family w«fee r present On being assured that there was not one" present whom she might fear she saieV: * Two men came to our house tat* last night, and asked to see my haiband, who had already retired. ' He was 1 in bed, bat they insisted that he must get up, as--they had a message from " the .authori* ties for him." When they saw him they requested him to go with then to attend some churoh business. ' I b». / * came very muoh alarmed, for my poor rm husband had been known to speak *«rv, freely of late of lome of the measures; ■' of the church, bat he tried to reassure " me, and finally left the house with tae r two men. In about an hoar «ftff» r they came bsok, bearing between them his lifeless body. They laid him tipoft the bed, and then one of them pulled aside the curtain which constituted— our only cupboard, and took therefrom * a bake kettle, and stood,it bosi(fe. the bed, in order to catch the Wood'tha\ was flowing fr jm a fearful wound in ni« throat. They then left the, ho& - telling me to make as! little noise about it as possible, or they might serve ma the same way. The men were masked,-and~l cannot toll who they were, but I spent a fearful night with mjpoor dead husband,*^ The event has caused .considerable excite;'' mentinUtah. , , - '