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When the police forces drove into town at dawn, sirens moaning, red lights revolving and pistols at the ready, the colonists, including whiskery Elder Joseph Jessop and his two 21-year-old sons, George and Tom, were drawn up in the school yard in their Sunday best, singing America and politely waiting to be arrested. Said one Short Creek leader: "This raid will give us $10 million worth of publicity." The governor hoped that most of the men would not only get prison terms but fines, which might enable the state to attach their property and raze the town. But polygamists are difficult to convict. Perhaps the Short Creek colony was finished, or perhaps it had just been given a big shot in the arm.