The Evening Statesman

ELDER IN REORGANIZED CHURCH
SAYS UTAH CHURCH HOLDS
AWFUL SECRETS.
Throats of Victims Have Been Cut,
Hearts Torn Out and Bodies
Disembowelled.

NEW YORK, Dec. 27.--"For forty
years the so-called Mormon church of
Utah has carried on the awful secrets
of the endowment house. Throats of
victims have been cut, hearts torn out
and bodies disembowelled in pursuance
of the tenet of the church, which says
that the only way the wrath of God
may be appeased is by the shedding of
human blood. I have knowledge in
hand that they have offered up human
beings in the endowment house."

This statement was made to a re-
porter last night by Albert N. Hoxie,
of Boston, who is an elder in the re-
organized church of Latter Day Saints,
the headquarters of which are at La-
moni, Iowa.

"I have written a letter to the sen-
ate committee on privileges and elec-
tions at Washington," he continued,
"advising them to call as a witness
Joseph Smith, leader of the reorga-
nized church, a son of Joseph Smith,
the "prophet." He knows of persons
who escaped from the endowment
house and the terrible fate that await-
ed them and who fled from the state,
barely escaping with their lives. These
people could tell the committee some
interesting facts.

"The practice of sacrificing human
beings, I have reason to believe, is
going on now, only in greater secrecy
than ever. If the proper authorities
would go to Salt Lake City armed with
government search
warrants,
and
search every
building,
there is
no
question in my mind but they would
run
across
some
startling evidence."