| 95 failed to pay within the specified time and was by Judge McKean sentenced to twenty-four hours imprisonment for contempt of court. This sentence was carried into effect, and Mr. Young spent the time from one o'clock in the afternoon of March 11 to the same time on March 12 in the penitentiary.
On March 14, 1875, Elder Charles W. Wandell, missionary to Australia, died at Sydney, Australia. Of him Richard Ellis wrote under date of April 9, as follows:
Once more I pen you a few lines. One sad news is the death of Bro. O. W. Wandell. I have no doubt but that Bro. Rodger informed you of it in his letter to you by this mail. Dear brother, I can bear my testimony that Elder Wandell has been a faithful Latter Day Saint and a servant of God while in this far-off land, and has left a name that will never be forgotten by the Saints here. I believe he died of heart-disease. He stopped at my house until he could not get up-stairs to his room, then he desired me to get him to St. Vincent Hospital; he thought that by going there he might be thoroughly cured of bronchitis, which he thought he had; but soon after he was admitted to the above institution, he was told that it was the heart-disease he had; yet he thought he would rally and be able to attend to his mission. The Saints visited him twice every week, but we could see that he was going fast. He was happy, and had no fear of death; he also bore his testimony to the truth of the work, and that you were the legal successor of your father. He also stated that the angels visited him and sang for him. He was under medical treatment just one month. He had everything he wanted, and was buried respectably. We bought a grave lot for him where two can be buried.
While we were standing round the grave, Elder Rodger gave us a short discourse on death and the resurrection, and a short history of Bro. Wandell's life; then we selected a few verses of the hymn Elder Wandell composed, "Weep, weep not for me, Zion," and sang it over the grave before we separated, and it had great effect upon all present.-The Saints' Herald, vol. 22, p. 344.
And the editor wrote of him as follows:
It is with regret and pain that we announce, the sad news of the death of the life of the flesh of Bro. Charles W. Wandell, missionary, in company with Bro. Glaud Rodger, to Australia. The letter of Bro. Rodger, received by us on the 19th of May, and published in this issue, contains the tidings of his demise on the 14th of March last, in the fifty-seventh year of his age.
We never saw Bro. Wandell, but we feel that he was a true and faithful man; one of whom it may be fitly said, "He hath lived faithfully, and now rests, awaiting his resurrection to the better life beyond the veil."
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