Originally posted by Bill the Cat
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Trying to go out the window to deflect attention from the two survivors inside, Joseph Smith was hit in the chest and collarbone with two shots from the open doorway and two more from outside the window. His final words as he fell to the ground outside the jail were, "O Lord, my God!*" (HC 6:618). As rumors spread that the Mormons were coming, the mob dispersed.
In a drastic attempt to make Smith a martyr, he wasn't "running for his life", he was "trying to save the two survivors inside".
And the part about rumors that the Mormons were coming -- they were already THERE - to dispense justice (albeit totally improper) to the man who had swindled them out of money, property, wives, honor....
*this was supposedly the "distress signal" in hopes that his fellow Masons would save him.
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