15 POLYGAMISTS

Grey River Argus, 22 May 1944, Page 4

15 POLYGAMISTS

WITH 55 WIVES AT SALT LAKE CITY.

(Rec. 1.40.), NEW YORK, May 21. A message from Salt Lake City says: In one of the strangest cases in legal history, one based on written stipulations, and involving no witnesses, a District Judge has convicted fifteen polygamists “of unlawful cohabitation with fifty-five plural wives.” Sentence will be passed on May 25. Those convicted face a maximum of five years’ imprisonment.

The United Press of America says: They commented: “We have prayed 'for conviction, because we want the. issue settled in the Supreme Court once and for all.” The plural wives told an interviewer that most people were so afraid of the problems of plural marriages that they never advance f‘Jr enough to learn its advantages.