DESERET NEWS favorably reports lynching of horse-thief A.B. Baker by possee deputized to arrest him. He is "buried by those who thus meted out to him summary justice not exactly according to law, but upon a more speedy, economical and salutary principle. . ." In territorial Utah, there are eleven judicial executions, and same number of lynchings by mobs (primarily Mormons). (1)
-- 150 years ago - Jul 11, 1860
Nauvoo, Illinois. Joseph Smith gave instructions to the high council about how to conduct disciplinary councils. (2)
-- 170 years ago - Jul 11, 1840
John Whitmer dies. (3)
-- 132 years ago - Jul 11, 1878
1 - On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com
2 - BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith
3 - Tidd, N. R., "Mormon Chronology"
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