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They Could Be Bought (1889)

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
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Charles Henry Wilcken, a friend and bodyguard to such churchleaders as George Q. Cannon and Wilford Woodruff during the polygamy raids in the later 1880s, once confirmed to Abraham Cannon who had just escaped arrest, that he, Wilcken, had “bought Doyle (U. S. Marshal) off, and got his promise that… [Cannon] should not be molested [...]