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==Imprisonment and Death==

==Imprisonment and Death==

Smith had been imprisoned in [[Carthage]], [[Illinois]] for destroying the printing press of the Nauvoo Expositor.  The Expositor had denounced (in its only printed edition) "false doctrines" (for instance the "doctrines of many gods") and Smith had had the printing press burned in the street.  In retaliation, an angry mob broke into the prison on June 27, 1844.  In an attempt to defend himself (with a pistol which had been smuggled in to him), Smith shot and wounded three men.  He was preparing to jump from the unbarred second floor window where he had been incarcerated, but was shot, causing him to fall injured to the ground below.  Four men shot him to death on the ground.  None was convicted.  His brother [[Hyrum]] (who was also armed with a pistol) was shot in the face and killed during the same gun-battle.  <ref>[http://www.josephsmith.net/portal/site/JosephSmith/menuitem.da0e1d4eb6d2d87f9c0a33b5f1e543a0/?vgnextoid=ad10001cfb340010VgnVCM1000001f5e340aRCRD&locale=0 Martyr for God] JosephSmith.net</ref>

Smith had been imprisoned in [[Carthage]], [[Illinois]] for destroying the printing press of the Nauvoo Expositor.  The Expositor had denounced (in its only printed edition) "false doctrines" (for instance the "doctrines of many gods") and Smith had had the printing press burned in the street.  In retaliation, an angry mob broke into the prison on June 27, 1844.  In an attempt to defend himself (with a pistol which had been smuggled in to him), Smith shot and wounded three men.  He was preparing to jump from the unbarred second floor window where he had been incarcerated, but was shot, causing him to fall injured to the ground below.  Four men shot him to death on the ground.  None were convicted.  His brother [[Hyrum]] (who was also armed with a pistol) was shot in the face and killed during the same gun-battle.  <ref>[http://www.josephsmith.net/portal/site/JosephSmith/menuitem.da0e1d4eb6d2d87f9c0a33b5f1e543a0/?vgnextoid=ad10001cfb340010VgnVCM1000001f5e340aRCRD&locale=0 Martyr for God] JosephSmith.net</ref>

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