In reference to the gold rush and those
saints that were attracted to the California gold fields, Apostle Amasa M.
Lyman said that gold was what?
A)
California canker
B)
Filthy lucre
C)
Poison
D)
The devils pay
Yesterday’s answer:
(C) Mr. Tompkins
The
first suspect to the murder attempt, even before Joseph Smith and Porter
Rockwell were thought of was a man by the name of Tompkins (approximately 38 to
40 years of age), however, the anti-Mormon militia leader Samuel D. Lucas
cleared the suspect.
Jeffersonian
Republican, May
21, 1842.
Additional
interesting information:
It
might surprise you that no one in Missouri pointed the finger at Joseph Smith
or Porter Rockwell for the deed. If Missouri didn’t, then who did?
The post master at the nearby town of Montrose, Iowa, a man by the name
of David W. Kilbourne and an anti-Mormon agitator wrote a letter to the then
Governor of Missouri, Governor Reynolds. Mr. Kilbourne stated in his letter,
“should to entertain a doubt that it was done by some of Joe’s minions at his
instigation.”
D. W. Kilbourne to Thomas Reynolds, May 14,
1842, “Thomas Reynolds Letters.” Quoted in Warren A. Jennings, “Two Iowa
Postmasters View Nauvoo; Anti-Mormon Letters to the Governor of Missouri,” BYU Studies 11, no. 3 (1971): 275-76.
Anti-Mormon and excommunicated first mayor of Nauvoo, John C. Bennett
wrote to the Warsaw Signal that
Joseph Smith predicted to him in 1841 that Lilburn Boggs would die by violent
means and that when Porter Rockwell left Nauvoo shortly before the assault that
Joseph Smith had said Porter had “gone to fulfill prophecy.”
“Nauvoo,” Warsaw Signal, July 9, 1842.
How many times was ex-Governor Boggs shot
on the May 6, 1842 assassination attempt?
There have been arguments for three to four
shots fired. All accounts agree on twice to the neck and at least once to twice
to the head.
“A Foul Deed,” St. Louis Daily Missouri Republican, May 12, 1842; “Governor
Boggs,” Jefferson City (Mo.) Jeffersonian
Republican, May 14, 1842.
Wilford
Woodruff recorded the following in his journal when he learned of the
assassination attempt of Boggs. Woodruff later corrects the fact that Boggs did
not die:
He
says that Boggs had “just Been assassinated in his own house & fallen in
his own Blood. . . . Thus this ungodly wretch has fallen in the midst of his
iniquity & the vengeance of God has overtaken at last & he has met his
Just deserts though by an unknown hand.”
Susan Staker, ed., Waiting for World’s End: The Diaries of Wilford Woodruff (Salt Lake
City: Signature Books, 1993), 55-56 (May 15, 1842).
The
Nauvoo Wasp, a Nauvoo newspaper edited by William Smith, brother to the prophet,
received a letter from an individual who wrote under the pseudonym “Vortex,”
was equally joyous as the paper states:
“Boggs is undoubtedly killed, according to
report; but Who did the Noble Deed remains to be found out.”
Nauvoo
(Ill.) Wasp, May 28, 1842, 2.
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