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...While it is true that I am interested in maintaining that the founder was an inspired prophet, yet I can and do say that if he was a polygamist, if he was responsible for the alleged document on polygamy. . . which we do not believe and which we emphatically deny, then he broke both the law of God and the laws of the land, and to that extent was a "fallen" prophet...
...roommate caused the stir of the evening when he showed up with five (not two or three like any sane polygamist--but five) young ladies. He danced with each one in her rightful turn. We later interviewed the young ladies and asked what's the story...
Last week's polygamy crackdown was prompted by an appeal by Mormon leaders themselves. The polygamists' prosecutor is a tall young Mormon, U.S. Assistant District Attorney John S. Boyden. Since there is no U.S. law against polygamy (except in territories), Boyden invoked the Mann Act, the Lindbergh kidnapping law (against a group who took a 14-year-old girl polygamist to a "lambing ground"), the prohibition against mailing obscene literature, etc. Basis for the raids was a recent test case in which the Government sent Polygamists John and Lola Zenz to prison for terms of five...
...Cried Polygamist Rhea Allred Kunz, mother of eight (see cut; back row, third from left): "Plural marriage cannot be stamped out. Regardless of wars and pestilence, there has always been a surplus of worthy women." Cried Polygamist Rulon C. Allred, husband of six: "Polygamy is a hard thing to live and anyone who thinks it is fun just ought...
Arriving in England, he immediately became both a prosperous vicar by joining with the winners in the Restoration struggle and a polygamist by acquiring yet another wife. (The second Mrs. Eaton was still in Virginia as security for his unpaid bills.) But, though past 60, Eaton was not content with his income and ran deeply into debt. After attempting to bribe his creditor's agent and being proved quilty of perjury, the dapper little popinjay was dragged off to King's Bench Prison at Southwark. There his incessant demands for scholastic and clerical privileges fell on deaf ears; and, within...