Show Biography of Brigham J Y Young b I and History Hi sto ory of the Mormon Church N 1 M. M R R. W Werner ernei in Luc Lac L c ies Ho Home e Journal Journ I. I I i I I I I i j 1 j J j I After the forcible suppression ot of their theil newspaper William Law Lav ana anahis anahis anahis I his associates left Nauvoo for lOA tae tac neighboring city of Carthage which was composed largely of If anti Moi mon mOll people They swore swore ou out our a u war warrant nr- nr rant for the arrest of Jos Joseph ph Smith and his Nauvoo Common Coo and Joseph Smiths Smith's tl I our o-ir with powers under the inay Nauvoo charter prom promptly re reee scathe seu the prophet and his associates by y a a writ of habeas corpus corpus This use C of the charter whipped the people of or C Carthage into a fury First the they asked a asked ked Governor Ford Forc for the militia Ford visited Cartha Carthage e and when h arrived there on all June 21 lie foura fourr c I an armed force of citizens ready to toI I arrest Smith and his common councilors coun coun- connI I Governor Ford addressed a l meeting meeting meeting meet meet- ing of at mob moh and anu militia at Carthage and assured them that JO lh Smith would be le made to answer charges for the suppression of the Nauvoo oo Expositor or but bul Ue Ito also In Inte te than thau no personal harm mus must como coma to Lo him until the law had authorIze it and amI he lie sent Smith notice to appear rA rAl l a at to answer the charges q made marl against him Meanwhile hile the tho prophet had declared Nauvoo to l jC c under martial law and no one was allowed I Ito to enter or to IG love leave ve the without strict search On Monday J Juno uno 24 t. t Joseph JosephI Smith his brother Hyrum and all theme the tho me members of the Municipal Common Council of Nauvoo went Iry Carthage Ca to surrender themselves on of ot riot All except Joseph Smith and amI his bis brother Hyrum Byrum were discharged discharged dis llis- charged on hail bail but hut the tho two Ie leaders leaders lead lead- ers were held in n jail jail on a charge 01 of treason because Smith SI had declared Nauvoo under martial law which lt heI lies he I the charge chargo said anto amounted to a declaration declaration dec dec- J ration o of war Avar against the state to OJ Of Illinois At the governors governor's su suggestion es I the Smith br brothers allowed e a i. i t s i 1 r large room room m in the the he Carthage Jat where I they could see some of ot their their I i 1 friends On Thursday Thursday June Jiu June e a 27 sultry summer day dar Go Governor Gornor Ford went wept to Nauvoo with With a a n. n force 0 or voluntary soldiers to address th the Mormons and ass assure them that their prophet l Mayo have fair play The prisoners mea mea- while spent the tho afternoon with Jo John n Ta Taylor lor who was visiting th then them nl A At about five o'clock c ock In the evens evenn- th there re was a noise in m the compound out outside the ja jail I followed b IJ- IJ a few rifle shots Then men lush rushed l up tine the stairs of the ja jail to th the loom room in the second story wh where e tho the 4 s s sy y were re sitting Thedoor Thedoor door of the room was pushed open and anel shots were fired fir fir- ed at the prisoners and their theil n j ors Hyrum Smith was lit iu in le e facer and the head and fell crying I ant am n n. dead man As ho he was falling three more bullets struck him ant anc killed him The Tho Cs Untimely I En nl Joseph Smith had a revolver which a 11 friend hn had smuggled into the Jail mel and with this he wounded three e of the mob When he could no longer keep them from entering tin till room he rushed for the window to jump out when a ball bail struck him and he fell out of the window God It Is shouting shouting- O 0 Lord my said that when the prophets prophet's body bolly hit the ground he lie was sun still alive One Ono of oC the assailing mob propped it up against the wall of ot ra IJ well toil four men advanced eight paces and fires their rifle balls into It and Josepa died According to Mormon lormon accounts s. s the mob that killed th their ir prophet and their patri patriarch arch was made mud up ox qt about one hundred and fifty me mca with their faces disguised by black blacic paint I Elder Stevenson estimated th that t a athe ir as the tine time of his death lentil the prophet was vas thirty-eight thirty years ears nion-is nion Mud and six days lays i old and that it it was wag just lust fourteen years years years' two months anc am ne days dars after the foundation of or f tub tl Mormon church when wIlen Its Us prophet was killed oJ The bodies bodlos of ot Joseph and amI Hyrum v were vere removed the Jail to linn linn- 11 tons ton's in Carthage A row c days lays later later the bodies of th the a proper prop ae rAnd and the patriarch were taken t to toOn On Last P Page ge Proprietor From Page One 1 11 1 YOUNG with wailing ant anc 11 Nauvoo greeted d I and am and buried near Joseph Smiths Smith's fornier home He had hac e r. r pressed a wish to be hurled burled in ill t c to tomb near the temple but Emma Emmr Smith objected and refused to allow I the church to carry carry carryout out that wish thousand Mormons gathered around the tho bodi bodies of of their dead l lea leaders ers The memory of the prophet was perpetuated a few days das later The rough bo boards which had been used as temporary coffins were sawed in and distributed among Joseph's Josephs Josephs Joseph's Josephs Joseph's Jos Jos- ephs eph's and Hyrum's friends who had hag canes made of or them each with a n alock lock of the prophets prophet's hair set in the top lop T These ese canes are considered sacred relics today Proprietor By their reckless shots on oil that June Junet dy t the men lion of Carthage set seta I tt a W on a firm basis anu of aiding to Mormonism which was as their a avowed avow vo avow avowed ed object they created in tho the minds of at many thousands the idea ot or a latter-day latter Jesus Christ Mormonism Mormon Mormon- ism lam had developed all the paraphernalia paraphernalia nalia naHa with ancient Christianity It only lacked a martyr and the moo mOl supplied the they final touch with unintentional unintentional generosity Joseph was assassinated at exactly the rig right time for his religion however cruel crucI and l. l unfortunate his death was for tor himself as he did during the few Tew last years of or his life in all r his church would nave have Dee Deet broken into splinters oy ny me the impact of ot his own ambitious pretensions or smashed into kindling b by the rage lago of hostile mobs Governor Ford ord ord made an enort enon to Proprietor discover the murderers or josepn I and Hyrum and to bring them meIn to trial HUt the Ule moo mOD was determined determined deter uner- mined that they should not oe De pun pua- pu ana and more ra a I men under arms aims guarded the courtroom court courtroom room Toom to keep away Mormons who might sit it on the jury or 01 bear mony The accused were all acquitted ac ac- quitted Claimants for the Key When Joseph Smiths Smith's body fell from the window ledge to the ground outside Carthage jail on that sultry in June 1114 Brigham Brig Brig- I ham Young was in the railway s station sta- sta tion at Boston Hoston waiting to take the thc rain to alem It u was almost two weeks after that he lie first first heard the news and he hurried to Nauvoo with the others of the apostles whom Proprietor he could gather on the he way He met Orson Pratt Orson H Hyde de and WIlford Wilford Wilford Wil- Wil ford Woodruff at of Albany and traveled travel travel- ed Jd the rest of the wa way with them Brigham Young wrote that the thc first thing he thought of upon hearing hearing hear hear- ing lug of the death of the prophet was wa who now had the l keys eys of or the kingdom kingdom kingdom king king- dom The Tho first thing that i thought of was whether JO Joseph ph had taken talen the keys of the kingdom with wUn him from the earth Brother Drother Orson Pratt sat on my left we were both leaning back on our chairs BrInging Bringing Bring BrIng- ing lug my hand down on my knee I IsaId Isaid Isaid said The Tho keys of the kingdom are aro right here with the church Perhaps Brigham Young meant to imply by that gesture that the keys of the kingdom were right light in his pocket but be that as tt t t may map he soon decided that if the they worn not ant there he was going to pick lie ho hf lockAs lock As soon as Sidney Rigdon Hearn heam of Joseph Smiths Smith's death he l back to Nauvoo He arrived there thereon on August 3 almost a weeK before Brigham Young und ind he set ct about trying tring to rapture capture the tIle control of the headless church lie Ho urged l that a conference of or tio tali D people ople b be called caned at once and he ho told Uio Ule people that he had been appoint l uy cy heaven to be their and he lIe visions received several appropriate to corroborate the appointment He finally succeeded in arranging a conference conference conference con con- ference of or the people for August a. a The conference was first set rot Tor Aug ng August G 6 but it was postponed and anet It Vas this dela delay which was r fatal tal to Sidney Rigdon's plans for Young and the apostles reached Nauvoo Nauvoo Nau Nau- at eight o'clock in the tho evening eiling of August C. 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