UTAH: A Dream of Fair Women

In a dream the Angel Moroni appeared to young Joseph Smith and told him where to find the gold plates on which was written, in cryptic characters, the Book of Mormon. The boy went and found the plates, and translated them. Thus, in the year 1830, in Fayette, N.Y., he founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, long hated and reviled by Gentiles because it hallowed the custom of taking several wives. . . .

On a street corner in Salt Lake City, police picked up 37-year-old Mark Larmon Stewart, a post-office employe, as he stood earnestly...

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