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Stephen R. Gibson, "Why Was Joseph Smith Jailed?," One-Minute Answers to Anti-Mormon Questions (Bountiful, Utah: Horizon Publishers) How can Latter-day Saints belong to a church whose founder spent time in prison?

Klaus Hansen, "The Political Kingdom of God as a Cause for Mormon-Gentile Conflict," BYU Studies (1960), 1-16 The afternoon of October 30, 1838, saw one of the most brutal butcheries of men and children ever to occur in the annals of the state of Missouri. At about four o�clock, relates Joseph Young, one of the eyewitnesses, �a large company of armed men, on horses� advanced towards a mill on Shoal Creek, where about thirty Mormon families had gathered for refuge. Defenseless, the Saints scattered, some into the woods, others into a blacksmith shop. Overtaken by the mob, nineteen men and boys were killed, a dozen wounded. One nine-year-old boy had found refuge under the bellows. Discovered by a mobster, the child was killed by a gun-blast in the head. Boasted the butcher afterwards: �Nits will make lice, and if he had lived he would have become a Mormon.�

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