Biography and Family Record of Lorenzo Snow: One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — John Shaqi
Biography and Family Record of Lorenzo Snow: One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsSnow, Eliza R. (Eliza Roxey)
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Biography and Family Record of Lorenzo Snow: One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Snow, Eliza R. (Eliza Roxey)
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Snow family; Snow, Lorenzo, 1814-1901
A room adjoining the one in which the court was in session, was lighted
by one window. Before Father Smith was brought for trial, Mr. Johnson
had examined the premises, and under the aforesaid window, on the
outside, he had cautiously made preparation so that the old gentleman
could reach the ground without injury. Before the court proceeded
to business, Mr. Johnson said he would like a few minutes private
conversation with his client. Permission was granted for him to take
the prisoner into the room aforementioned. When in, he drew the nail
which was the only fastening to the window--raised the window, and said
to Father Smith, "Go right up to Esquire Snow's--he is a quiet man, and
no one will think of going there for you." The old gentleman did his
bidding, and came directly to our father's, who had purchased a home in
Kirtland, and was living a mile and a quarter distant from the court
scene; when he arrived, it was nearly midnight.
Mr. Johnson replaced the nail in the window, and, after giving Father
Smith time to clear the premises, proceeded to the court room, where
he soon discovered that his client had not followed him; whereupon he
hurried back to the room to see what was detaining him. After hunting
about there a short time, he came back to the court room, apparently
very much disconcerted, and reported the unaccountable fact that the
prisoner was not to be found. After close search by those present,
who found the nail fastening in the window all right, the question
was, "How did he make his escape?" The constable, who manifested the
greatest astonishment of all present, finally settled the question by
saying, "It is another Mormon miracle."
Father Smith remained between two and three weeks at our father's
house, "hid up" from his enemies; but during the time, with the
legal assistance of the justice of the peace (an honorable Gentile),
he arranged his business matters preparatory to leaving for the
west. Before he left, he was joined by six others, whose lives were
threatened by apostates.
Before closing this subject, I think a further notice is due the
unantagonistic apostate, Luke Johnson. I happened to meet him the day
after the scene in the court room--he enquired after his released
prisoner, and after hearing that he reached his destination all right,
he, in a jocose manner, related the foregoing circumstances, and closed
with, "Father Smith will bless me for it, all the days of his life." To
which, when I repeated it to Father Smith on my return home, he replied
in the affirmative; and Luke Johnson is the only one of those five
Apostles that returned to the Church. He was re-baptized, and lived a
faithful member--was much respected, and died an honorable death in the
midst of his friends, in Salt Lake City.
Chapter V.
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