Man who helped kill Mormon head in 1844 confessed in Mt. Airy, ca. 1927.

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Man who helped kill Mormon head in 1844 confessed in Mt. Airy, ca. 1927.

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Typewritten account probably copied from a newspaper from the year 1927. The article states that Dr. H. K. Doyer "tells of getting confession from Corporal Bolton." Bolton "disclosed details of Crime on his Death Bed." The item states that Bolton was one of the men who shot the first president of the Mormon Church, Joseph Smith (1805-1844). The confession was suposedly given in 1898.

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Harold B. Lee Library

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Smith, Joseph, jr., 1805-1844

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