[Wrigley]

Actually he was in jail because he smashed a printing press of someone who was publishing things that made Joe look bad.

[frgoff]

Let's get specific. The press was destroyed because the publishers were calling for the death of Joseph Smith and other church leaders.

[Spiff]

Actually he was in jail because he smashed a printing press of someone who was publishing things that made Joe look bad.

Nauvoo Mayor Joseph Smith smashed nothing. The commanding general of the Nauvoo Legion, the largest state militia in Illinois - smashed nothing. He was acquitted of the charge two times, once before an tribunal with many church members and again before a second court without church members. He was illegally demanded to stand before a third court in Carthage where he and his brother were murdered by a black-faced lynch mob who shot and killed them while they were waiting in the jail.

Do you black your face too before you starting posting this garbage about Joseph Smith?

[Redwood71]

Local court records show Smith was charged with, and convicted of, disorderly conduct for so-called money-digging activities: using supposedly supernatural stones to dig for treasure. Some argue associated court documents were forged or alterered to cast Smith in a unfair light; others have argued that such "treasure digging" was a common form of folk magic and that Smith was not unique in its practice.

This happened in the same town that he was chased out of for destroying the press you mentioned. When he came back, the same people, already torked at him, shot him as he jumped from a second story jail cell window. At that point, there was question as to whether he was dead. They put him up in front of a tree, and shot him a few more times to make sure.

He destroyed the press because it didn't say good things about him. He just chose the wrong town to do that.

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