The room was discovered by an anti-Mormon mob who broke through the floor of the vestibule above.
In the most violent of the altercations at this time, the Haun's mill Massacre, 17 were murdered by an anti-Mormon mob and 13 were wounded.
In 1844 Smith was lynched by an anti-Mormon mob in Nauvoo, Ill.
Smith died at the hands of an anti-Mormon mob in Illinois in 1844, a decade and a half after he organized the Mormon Church.
It was later learned that an anti-Mormon mob had been waiting to intercept him on the correct road to Quincy.
In October 1833, anti-Mormon mobs drove the Mormons from Jackson County, Missouri.
Shortly after his baptism, Joseph Smith, Jr., founding prophet of the church, was murdered by an anti-Mormon mob.
Shortly after Strang's departure, Joseph Smith was murdered by an anti-Mormon mob in Carthage, Illinois.
Its uncut sheets had to be rescued from an anti-Mormon mob by Strang's disciples.
Smith was killed by an anti-Mormon mob in 1844.