Did LDS founder Joseph Smith Kill Two People as he tried to escape a jail?
well what do you know, Jules posed the same question, here is his info on the subject: Did Joseph Smith die “like a lamb to the slaughter”? Despite popular Mormon folklore, Joseph Smith did not give his life innocently “like a lamb to the slaughter” in martyrom. He died after shooting three men with a pistol and desperately trying to prevent his death even with his last utterance. (One of Joseph Smith’s polygamous wives, Zina D. Huntington, declared: “I am the widow of a master mason, who, when leaping from the window of Carthage Jail pierced with bullets, made the masonic sign of distress.” Joeseph Smith made this sign hoping to appeal to Masons to save his life.) – Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia, Andrew Jenson, Volume 1, page 698 Regarding Joseph Smith’s death at Carthage Jail, Doctrine and Covenants 135:4 says: “When Joseph went to Carthage to deliver himself up to the pretended requirements of the law, two or three days previous to his assassination, he said: “I am goin
