Joe Smith Pardoned
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Joe Smith Pardoned
A Salt Lake City dispatch of the 22nd says:
Joseph F. Smith returned to Salt Lake City
today, after nine years exile. His story is one
of the most romantic in the history of Mormon -
ism. Always one of the fiercest defenders of
Polygamy, he was in February, 1885, indicted
for unlawful cohabitation, his three plural wives
being made co-respondents. He had already
been three years under ground, but had just
been elected to the Territorial Legislature and
had been chosen president of the upper house.
From that until today he was never publicly
seen in Utah. A nephew of the Prophet Joseph
Smith, and son Hiram Smith, he is the nearest
relative of the prophet who holds by the tentes
of Mormonism, and he is the last of the promi-
nent officials of that church to sign the Ed-
munds-Tucker act, which act resulted in presi-
dential pardon just two weeks ago.