William Smith asserts he left Nauvoo in 1845 in fear of blood atonement.
Date
Apr 1892
Type
Speech / Court Transcript
Source
William Smith
Excommunicated
Hearsay
Scribed Verbatim
Late
Reference
William B. Smith, cross-examination in Abstract of Evidence: Temple Lot Case (Lamoni, IA: Herald Publishing House and Bindery, 1893), 98
Scribe/Publisher
Herald Publishing House
People
William Smith
Audience
Circuit Court of the United States, Western District of Missouri, Western Division, at Kansas City
Transcription
I left Nauvoo in 1845 because my life was in danger if I remained there, because of my objections and protests against the doctrine of blood atonement and other new doctrines that were brought into the church.