The Brigham Young Center

President's Office
Great Salt Lake City.
June 7, 1867

Bro. Edward Cox:

The following charges have been preferred against you by Bro. Thomas Ellerbeck. You can examine them, and prepare yourself with the evidence which you may wish to present. Seven O'clock on Saturday evening (the 8th inst) will be a convenient time for me to hear the case.

Your Brother
Brigham Young

Charges.

First, in recommending his son E. Cox, Jr. to me, to work for me; and not till after I had contracted with his son for a month's work, did he tell me that his son was a regular cheat and a swindle, that he would cheat and swindle any body; and having told me this, he asked me to retain his boy's wages for him. I asked him, if he was such a bad boy to let me try him awhile; he replied you shant have him another minute; and on my telling him that I knew nothing against the young man, that I thought he was a decent man or as decent a man as he was, he called me a Liar right in my own door yard.

Second: for promising his son if he would go back and work for him, and not work for me who was only an old apostate, he would come to me and make it all right and take it all back what he said to me about him; thus teaching his son to lie.

Third: after his boy refused to go he exposed a knife, and in the public street said to him "for two pins he would stick this dagger to his heart"

Fourth: after I had paid his boy off, and a Store order for $11. on Jennings, which was duly charged up to myself on the Ledger, and was never allowed to be charged to him at all in the Ledger, but which from the careless and improper manner in which I left the duplicate might possibly have been charged up to E. Cox sen, had I not discovered it in time to post it correctly which I did when I came to it, and altho he was duly informed that it had been properly charged to me, he has told around that it was charged to him, and five hundred dollars besides.

Fifth: for telling around that when he made my sash and doors which he did at home evenings to the amount of about One hundred dollars, I charged the pay to him, which is absolutely false, for the preliminary and subsequent entries were all made against me without the slightest mistake that I have been able to discover.

(Signed) Thomas W Ellerbeck