HISTORY OF HANCOCK COUNTY, ILLINOIS, 1880

Chapter VI, The Mormon Period, by Thomas Gregg

"Mayor [Joseph Smith] said the first thing that occurred when he stepped into the hall with Foster, was that he wanted to assassinate him; he saw something shining below his vest; Mayor put his finger on it and said, 'What is that?' Foster replied, 'It is my pistol,' and immediately took out the pistol and showed it openly, and wanted the Mayor to go with him alone (testimony concerning a publisher of the anti-Joseph Smith newspaper given during the Nauvoo City Council meeting called to decide the newspaper's future, page 309)."

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© 2002, Ken Bowles -- July 07, 2002, Edition

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