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[MORMONS]. [MURDER OF JOSEPH AND HYRUM SMITH]. Illinois State Register. Vol. 9, No. 31. Springfield, IL, September 20, 1844. Four folio pages on one large folding sheet. Each page approximately 608 x 474 mm. Toned, edgeworn, soiled, foxed, some tears, left margin chipped and torn, a faint horizontal crease to the center of pages. On p. 2 are two articles on Mormons. One, about the aftermath of the murder of Joseph and Hyrum Smith on June 27 of the same year as this newspaper was published, is titled: “Mormon Affairs. The inquiry has been made, why some steps have not been taken to bring the authors of the late outbreak at Carthage, to justice? For the information of such of our readers, as take an interest in this matter we are enabled to state from the Governor himself that this delay was necessary, in the first instance to await the result of an application to the government of the United States for a portion of the regular Army to be stationed in Hancock county, to suppress any further disturbances growing out of these prosecutions or any other causes.” Another small article is also about the Smiths’ murder: “Communicated. I have heard that the Anti-Mormon party of Hancock county have procured letters to be written to Governor Ford, threatening him that if he attempt to sustain the prosecutions against them for the murder of the Smiths, they will endeavor to implicate him by an effort to prove he connived at the act.”