Cruelty of the Mormons.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 187, 25 August 1888, Page 3

Cruelty of the Mormons.

[PBB MAIL STBAMBB.] An English woman named Mrs Elizabeth Turnbull Ratter, arrived in Chicago on July 14th, from Ogden, Utah, and asked the way to the British Consulate. Before he could answer, she fell fainting at his feet, being almost starved. Taken to the police station, she told a startling tale of experience among the Mormons. Five years ago, she lived in North Shields, England, with her husband, son and daughter. Her son was induced by Mormon missionaries to join them and come over to the United Sta'es. Not long afterwards he wrote, telling of bad treatment and imprisonment by the Mormons, and the father started to release him. He reached Utah, and got work, hoping to earn enough to take his son home. Finally, he wrote to his wife that he would be able to leave shortly. This letter was intercepted, and another sent in place of it, inclosing money and telling the wife to come to Utah. She did so, to fird herself thevictim'of a plot, and the Mormons bent on preventing the departure of the family. The husband and wife schemed to get away, but were forced into the church. Mrs Ratter says she absolutely refused to be endowed, as the ceremonies are frightfully indecent. Finally, when the Ratters were about ready to take flight, the Mormons discovered their design’, and the next day the husband was brought home dead, said to have been drowned, but there W's a large, ghastly wound in the back of his head. That night Mrs Ratter ran awav to Ogden, working her way by stages to Chicago. She had not eaten for four days'when she fell fainting on the street. She was taken to the Hospital to recuperate.