June 17, 1844
Nauvoo, Illinois
Joseph Smith was arrested again (see June 12) along with sixteen others for the destruction of the Nauvoo Expositor and taken before Daniel H. Wells, justice of the peace, who discharged the prisoners. The Warsaw Signal called for the extermination of the Latter-day Saints from Illinois.
Sources:
History of the Church, Joseph Smith, 6:487–91
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