intelligence that a Stockport girl who
was being taken to Salt Lake against
her will had ben rescued from
the clutches of the horrible Mormons
and placed under the protecting care
of kind friends. Of course this report
and & will go the round of the press and
be gobbled up as a dainty morsel by those
who love a lie, and will be the means
of deceiving many an honest souls.
It was quite a lengthy article and would
be easily palmed of a credulous
bublic [public] as the truth. They will be more
apt to believe it from the fact that
a girl of the same name (Coop) did actu
aly go from Stockport with the last
company but one. I was acquainted with
"her myself. I am still traveling alone
but am going into Manchester to morrow
to our council meeting, on Thursday
and may have a change next month
but it makes no difference to me which
way it is. I went the other evening to
intelligence that a Stockport girl who
was being taken to Salt Lake against
her will had ben rescued from
the clutches of the horrible Mormons
and placed under the protecting care
of kind friends. Of course this report
and & will go the round of the press and
be gobbled up as a dainty morsel by those
who love a lie, and will be the means
of deceiving many an honest souls.
It was quite a lengthy article and would
be easily palmed of a credulous
public as the truth. They will be more
apt to believe it from the fact that
a girl of the same name (Coop) did actu
aly go from Stockport with the last
company but one. I was acquainted with
"her myself. I am still traveling alone
but am going into Manchester to morrow
to our council meeting, on Thursday
and may have a change next month
but it makes no difference to me which
way it is. I went the other evening to
"Letter from Asahel Hart Woodruff, 2 December 1884," p. 3, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed January 2, 2025, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/yM6g