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Day in the Life

Oct 28, 1871

Journal Entry

October 28, 1871 ~ Saturday

28 Oct 1871 [FIGURES] I met with the school of the prophets D H
Wells was present & spoke & left the school Before it was closed &
went into the street & soon after the school was closed President
Daniel H. Wells Hosea Stout, & Wm Kimball were all three
arested for Murder on the Testimony of Wm Hickman
all three of the Men were as innocent as children But Wm
Hickman is trying to clear himself By laying all of his damna-
ble Murders upon Innocent Men & the wicked Judges and
U. S. Officers in this City are trying to Murder the Innocent
& to clear the guilty. The above 3 Brethren were confined in
Camp Douglass & it is reported that President Grant is backing
up these wicked Judges to persecute the leaders of this People
so as to create an open war upon the L. D. Saints we held
a council at President Youngs office in the Evening

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Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 26 Aug 1877
3301 mentions
Apostle, Family
Wells, Daniel Hanmer
27 Oct 1814 - 24 Mar 1891
773 mentions
Apostle
Stout, Hosea
18 Sep 1810 - 2 Mar 1889
48 mentions
Hickman, William A.
16 Apr 1815 - 21 Aug 1883
25 mentions
43 mentions

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Oct 28, 1871