Raynor HCA 2013-07
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/18/2013
An authentic issue of the Daily National Intelligencer, Washington, July 13, 1844, 4pp., disbound, VG. From the interior, a 1/2 column report THE MORMON DIFFICULTIES, from the Governor of Illinois, Thomas Ford, providing the official statement of the killing of Mormon prophet Joseph Smith. In small part, “When the accounts first reached us of the death of the Mormon Prophet, they conveyed the impresssion that he had been killed in a general melee. ...But later intelligence renders it evident that he and his brother have fallen victims to that lawless spirit which has brought so much disgrace upon our country. They have been murdered, after they had given themselves up to the constituted authorities. ... The Smiths, Joseph and Hyram, have been assassinated in jail, by whom it is not known, but will be ascertained. ... I obtained a pledge of honor by a unanimous vote from the officers and men under my command to sustain the in performing it. If the assassination of the Smiths was committed by any portion of these, they have added treachery to murder, and have done all they could do to disgrace the State, and sully the public honor. ...”
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