Mary B. Crandall's Witness of the Divine Justice toward the Evil Woman
Published October 15, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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During a walk in Dublin, Mary B. Crandall recounted to her friend Bessie the story of a young lady who was lured into a house that appeared respectable but was a site of wickedness. The lady in the house gave the girl drugged wine, intending to hold her for nefarious purposes. The girl's brother discovered the situation, rescued her, and subsequently helped arrest the woman, who was then transported as punishment for her crimes. The brother, seeing the danger his sister was in, repented of his own past associations with such places and vowed to use his money for good thereafter.
In Their Own Words
“She was transported, I believe; but she told in the courtroom that he had promiséd her quite a sum of money if she would find him just such a girl, little thinking it would be his own sister. He never thought for a moment others had sisters. God willed it so, for he had been in the habit of going to such places, and he made up his mind there and then if God would forgive him he would never enter one of them again, but would spend his money trying to do some good with it. — The Young Woman's Journal 7:1”
Sources & References
The Young Woman's Journal, vol. 7 no. 1 (October 1895). L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University digital collections. https://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/digital/collection/YWJ/id/12025 (account extracted verbatim from the collection's page-level OCR; research confidence: high)
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