1856-07-01-New York Herald-The Mormon Case
From New York City LDS History
The Mormon Case
- New York Herald, 1 July 1856, p. 8; col D
The Mormon Case
Supposed Flight of the Wife with the Three Children
- Samuel Jervis, the Englishman who came to this country in pursuit of his wife and three children, who were en route for Utah to join the Mormons, called at our office last evening, about 8 o'clock, in a most distressing state of mind. It appears that although the wife acknowledged before the Court that she was content to live with her husband and three children, and promised that they should not be taken hence for the purpose of joining the Mormons, she gave him, it is supposed, the slip, about half past 5 o'clock, and it is supposed left by the Erie train, with her unfortunate little girls and boy, for a worse bondage, morally, mentally and physically, than is to be found even in the fictions of Southern slavery.
