[Indexed as: (Polydore Case), No title, The New York Times (N. Y.), Dec. 7, 1858]

JUDGE ECKLES, of Utah, has placed in charge of LORD NAPIER MISS POLYDORE, the young English girl on behalf of whose rescue from the Mormons the good offices of our Government were asked by the Government of Great Britain. The father of the rescued young lady is a lawyer of wealth and high standing, and has been for a long time been engaged in efforts for the restoration of his daughter, who was inveigled away from her home in England several years ago.

It will be remembered that the Mormons resisted the effort to take her from their hands, and opposed the legal proceedings through means of which the desired result was attained. When the Judge arrived at Fort Laramie, on his way to the States, with Miss POLYDORE in charge, he learned that a party of Danites, — several of whom were known to be in Salt Lake City when he left, — had been inquiring for him, having unquestionably pursued him with a view of forcibly abducting the child. Gen. JOHNSTON, anticipating some such attempt, had sent a guard with the Judge’s party sufficiently strong to prevent it.

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NOTE

The Danites were Mormon “enforcers.” The performed the function of what today we might call “secret police” and “death squad.” They were charged by the church with punishing apostates – by death.