Show THE MARTYRDOM another account odthe assassination of the Prop liet joseppi smith ami and tile patriarch ruin the following narrative of the murder iii in cold blood of ortho the prophet joseph smith sinith and his brot brother ler hyrum and tile severe wounding of president john taylor while they were ivere under the pledged pro lection tec tion of the state of III illinois anois aro through governor ford is eo so far aa a it foes goes pretty nearly correct boing being 11 g in the roain main in unison with the accounts accounts already published hed being the narrative of an eyewitness eye witness to tho incidents detailed it will be read with interest int erett A business man now a rea resident dent of tucson who was wits raised in nau I 1 11 tod today to d day a y gave me the details of the am a of joseph and hyrum smith at the carthage jail he having been au all eyl ditnes to the murder it ny nay be an all inter inte eating scrap ot of history to your coin mul lity he states that after of the emitha governor stated that he lie was bolln going to show the cormons lor mons at nau nauvoo V 00 that he lie was not afraid of them he lie ordered out the me companies of militia stationed there and went with them to nauvoo during his absence my informant who wa a mere boy at it the time and employed to carry dispatches arrived arrive 1 with one for the tile governor not finding him there he 10 tied his horse down at the jail which was a two story one ho ile then sauntered around the town returning to the jail about 5 as near as lie can remember when within a few feet of the jail lie ie ae heard ard shooting and yelling the tile first thing he lie saw wag was a man who played a fife in ono one of the companes jest with his face painted black standing in the lower door with a guu un the rhe next instant joseph smith hung flung his leg out of tho the up per window grasping tile casing ind and swung his bady body out tory ory to jumping byh when en a bullet from he the inside struck him in ill the leg and ho he let go and fell to the ground a distance of twelve feet st striking on his head licad and shoulders he lad had raised himself liim self on ono arm naif ia if dazed when three men rusaw rushed put t of the jail and nutting putting their gaiso his hid body fired so close yere were they to him that the smoke from their muskets was b blown own cle clear ar through his body hey then turned to my ray informant and asked him if that flint was joe smith he answered yes they lien then asked him bim if ho lie knew it was and he lie again answered yes and th aliat liat at ho lie had seen smith a hundred times in an all instant the assassins 3 disappeared in ih every direction my bly informant states that ho be then went up stairs and found smith dead soaked in blood lying upon tho the floor with a bullet hole through n s body and another man who ho lie hinks thinks was john taylor tallor either shot through the leg or side ho lie docs does not remember which president lor received three bullets in his body ady and another struck liis his watch and was thus prevented from pene ene rating him E D A JN he lie states tile murderers murder cra were disguised is mcd by having their faces paint 1 ed black after viewing hyrum smiths body ho lie went down stairs and on the street and found everybody in a perfect panic they were running for the tile cornfields cornfield and sand hiding in in every conceivable place i I 1 Ir ve claring laring that the I 1 cormons mormons would murder the whole town as soon as they li heardie hear ardef dif the killing of smith inside of ten in 1 aies frum from the time 0 of f the murder lif he 6 males the whole to town wv 11 win ai de populated bitting gitting scared ared him himell he jumped 40 anil aird built sought r saffy fy in letca that two bf the a ams sit iiii lit lie recognized as men stationed there to t a collica ny but he lie never ascertained their hame A q i s |