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After closer examination, Smith also declared,

... with W. W. Phelps and Oliver Cowdery as scribes, I commenced the translation of some of the characters or hieroglyphics, and much to our joy found that one of the rolls contained the writings of Abraham, another the writings of Joseph of Egypt, etc. -- a more full account of which will appear in its place, as I proceed to examine or unfold them.[2]

Here's how they'll get out of it: "It was only one of the rolls that was the writings of Abraham. The stuff found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art was missing that particular roll."

Smith's usual MO was to go behind a curtain with the purported documents and "translate" them while others, on the other side of the curtain, would take dictation. He could have had his eyes sealed with putty and his head in a bag and the results would have been the same.