A MORMON OUTRAGE.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, 9 August 1880, Page 3

A MORMON OUTRAGE.

11 One day I Baw a woman running across the 'fields townrds our bouse Jpale and tremblinjr. When she cam© in she looked round her na if fhe were frightened, md she aslced if.any one beside our family were present. On being aflsnred that there was no one present whom she might fear, she said — * Two men came to our house last niglit, and asked to see my, husband, who bad already retired^lfo was in JM, but they insisted mAi Be must get up, as bad a memfle from * tbe authorities ' for him. they paw him they requested him to go with them to attend* they said, some church business. I became very much alarmed for my poor husband had been known to speak rather freely of late of some the measures of the Church, but he tried to reassures me, find finally-lett the house with the two men. In about an hour after they came bacjri bearing between them bis lifeless Body. They laid him upon the bed, and then one one of them pulled a«He the curtain which constituted our only cupboard, took therefrom abake-kettal and stood Mt beside tbe bed. in order to catch the blood that was flo wing from a fearful wound in li 4 throat. They theti Uf. the house, telling me to make as little noise about it as possible, or they might serve me in tbe same way. The men were masted, and I cannot tell who thpy are; but I spent a fearful night with my poor dead hnsband " !■"* — " AaKnsjliabwoman in Utah."