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Y. - -.-.... =f&i . ~- =-= " > 4 + > jfoiice Gazette" Amateur Gloves - - S3. 50 " Boxing Police Gazette Exhibition Boxing Gloves - 5.00 Police Gazette" Champion Boxing Gloves - - 6.50 MYSTERIES A FULL EXPOSURE ITS SECRET PRACTICES AND HIDDEN CRIMES. BY AN APOSTLE'S WIFE. FULLY ILLUSTRATED. PUBLISHED BY RICHARD K. FOX, PROPRIETOR POLICE GAZETTE, FRANKLIN SOUAPt NEW YORK 54 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1881, by EICHAED K. FOX, Publisher o c the POLICE GAZETTE, NEW YORK, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. CONTENTS. I.-THE "DESTROYING ANGELS" FOILED. ... 7 II. THE ORIGIN OF MOBMONISM, 10 HI. THE MORMON GOSPEL, - .... 13 IV. MORMON POLYGAMY AND GOVERNMENT. - - -16 - V. MORMON MIRACLES, . 20 VI. JOE SMITH MOVES WEST, - . 25 VII.-BBIGHAM YOUNG STEPS IN, - , 28 Vm. THE CRIMES OF MORMONISM, - .33 IX THE DANITES, 36 X. SECRETS OF THE ENDOWMENT HOUSE, - . .42 XI. MORMON WIVES, ... 52 XII. MEN WITH MANY WIVES, . 59 Xni. A MORMON WIFE'S STORY, - 3g XIV. THE DOOM OF MORMONISM, . , , 3? IN THE HOLY BATH. THE MYSTERIES OF MORMONISM. CHAPTER I. Mormonism has well been called the twin relic of barbarism. It is more. It is an infamy even modern barbarism scarcely tol- erates. The Turk preserves a certain decency in the public man- agement of his seraglio nowadays, and the Orientally atnlacious flaunt- ing of his sensual indulgence which makes the old romances of the East so unique in their naughty piquancy has vanished. He has his scores of wives still but he keeps them in private, and when he goes among men who are not of his faith he does not attempt to proselytize them or to extend his branded creed. How different it is with the devotee of that bestial belief who covers, or essays to cover, the rottenness of his creed with the claim to Divine endorsement, thanks to which he dubs himself a Latter Day Saint ! No modest obscurity for him ! No humble enjoyment of his licen- tious worships in the secrecy of his own house ! The world must know it; and not only that, the world must contribute to its support and expansion. The Mormon missionary goes abroad in the highways and byways of the earth, preaching his creed of the bagnio to the ignorant and depraved and gathering them into the fold. If Mormonism had its root in the remote wilds of Siberia this condition of affairs would be bad enough. What can be said of it, then, when it nestles in the bosom of the greatest and freest nation of tin* earth and blots the boasted civilization of a republic which has done more in a century than any other governments in all their exist- ences to enlighten and improve the world? The polygamy of the Mormon community is the foulest ulcer on the body of our nation. The trial of the assassin of President Gar- 7 EVEBY WIPE IS QIVEN SO MUCH OF THE HUSBAND'S MONEY. THE MYSTERIES OF MORMONISM. 9 foes whose years she was a wanderer, pursued by phantom implaca- their Twice in bility was on a par with persistency. France, once in England and thrice in the United States, was she compelled to call upon the strong arm of the law to shield her, and each time the same mysterious threat of ultimate destruction was conveyed to her from an enemy who might be baffled but not defeated. At last accident came to her rescue. Last year a passenger steamer on its way from Europe to America was wrecked and many lives were lost. The passenger list was pub- lished. Among the names upon it was the writer's and it belonged to one of the drowned. That name was entered in the "red book," the sinister record kept of the foes whom Mormonism has denounced. Against it was set a black cross and the remark, "The Lord hath conquered! Glory to his " name ! Thus, dead but alive, I give this work to the world. It was written during years of wandering, and chapters of it first saw the light in many foreign lands. But it is complete and honest. What it may lack in style it makes up in fact. It is no fault of mine that the stories it fclls read like romances and are a shame upon the land in which their incidents were enacted. I trust and desire that the reader will remember this. I write from actual experience. I tell nothing I am not aware of the truth of there is not one of t'h j romantic ; events, the shocking crimes and the infamous observances I tell of which has not every foundation of its occurrence for existence here. I make these revelations in the interest of society and of the world. I hope my pages will be a warning to some who are rashly about to enter on the and debased I have followed to sorrow gloomy path my ; I trust they will encourage by my example some who have entered into th shadow of shame to withdraw while there is yet time. So much for now for work. myself ; my 10 THE MYSTERIES OF MO&MONISM. CHAPTER II. THE ORIGIN OF MOBMONISM. Mormonism was a swindle from the very start. It is to-day a monstrous crime grown from the successful fraud of a shrewd confi- dence operator. The founder of Mormonism was Joseph Smith. Born at Sharon, Windsor County, Vermont, on Dec. 23, 1805, he came of the worst of a bad breed. His parents were "hard cases," and renowned as such throughout the neighborhood.