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To: MHGinTN

Strangely enough, there was a trial in Carthage. The following were indicted and tried for the murders of Joseph and Hyrum Smith:

Thomas C. Sharp - Methodist, lawyer and yellow journalist
Mark Aldrich - Land speculator and Major in command of local militia that attacked the Carthage Jail.
William N. Grover - Captain of the Warsaw Cadets militia who ordered the attack on the jail
Jacob C. Davis - Lawyer, Captain of the Warsaw Rifle Company private militia that attacked the jail.
Levi Williams - Baptist preacher, Colonel in Illinois Militia.

There were two juries selected. The first jury had some LDS members empaneled and was dismissed.

All were acquitted when all Mormons were excluded from the second jury.

Above information from Wikipedia.


246 posted on 07/11/2008 6:55:30 PM PDT by Old Mountain man (Official FR PITA)
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To: Old Mountain man

So, are you trying to assert the ‘mob’ had only seven people in it? ... The five you listed and the two who died from Smith’s gun shots? Is there some other means by which we can know there were no MOmrons in the ‘mob’? Are you aware of whom it was who brought charges against Smith that got him incarcerated?


247 posted on 07/11/2008 7:07:26 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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