By: Ardis E. Parshall - March 24, 2016 A cablegram sent to the U.S. from Paris on 17 November 1917 was widely published in American newspapers on the following day, under such headlines as “French Hold Brigham Young’s Kin as Spy.” Paris, Nov. 17.—William Young, who claims to be a grandson of Brigham Young, late head of the Mormon church, has been arrested on an espionage charge at Bossehe village, near the Swiss border. He has no...
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