1902-10-06-Brooklyn Eagle-Mormons Denounce Young

Brooklyn Eagle, 6 October 1902, page 18

Mormons Denounce Young

Salt Lake City, Utah, October 6--The seventy-second semi-annual conference of the Church of Latter Day Saints is in session here and the officials are refuting in the most emphatic language the published statements that the murder of Mrs. Pulitzer of New York, by Hooper Young, was due to the Mormon doctrine of blood atonement.

President Ben E. Rich of the Central States Mission of the Mormon Church, who has just returned from the East, read a statement made by the presidency of the church in 1889, in which they denied that any apostates had been killed or that the church advocated or permitted any such teachings, and in which they denounced murder as the most heinous of all crimes.