...5:30 A.M. Dan Jones also records that he demanded that Ford protect Joseph because Joseph was a Master Mason, and promised that if Joseph was killed, he would testify to the world that Ford knew about it beforehand....
[Source: Conkling, Christopher J., Joseph Smith Chronology]
Because this is so lengthy, I'm including it as a comment here. This entry provides a more detailed look at this day - Conkling, Christopher J., Joseph Smith Chronology:
ReplyDelete5:00 A.M. John P. Greene and W. W. Phelps visit the jail on their way to Nauvoo.
5:30 A.M. The prisoners arise. Joseph asks Dan Jones to find out about the gunshot last night. Jones talks with Frank Worrel, one of the Carthage Greys. Worrel says, "We have had too much trouble to bring Old Joe here to let him ever escape alive, and unless you want to die with him you had better leave before sundown. . . . You'll see that I can prophesy better than Old Joe, for neither he nor his brother, nor anyone who will remain with them will see the sun set today." Joseph sends Dan Jones to report what he has heard to Gov. Ford. On the way, Jones hears others plotting to kill Joseph. Ford tells him he is "unnecessarily alarmed" and claims that "the people are not that cruel." Jones also records that he demanded that Ford protect Joseph because Joseph was a Master Mason, and promised that if Joseph was killed, he would testify to the world that Ford knew about it beforehand. Gov. Ford also refuses to give passes to Jones and others, so they cannot pass in and out of theprison. (History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (7 volumes) 6:602-4.)