August 13, 1842

Nauvoo, Illinois
Joseph Smith's wife Emma eluded detection by the sheriff while taking a carriage to visit her husband, who was in hiding.
Sources: 
History of the Church, Joseph Smith, 5:91-92
Sustaining the Law: Joseph Smith's Legal Encounters Gordon A. Madsen, Jeffrey N. Walker, and John W. Welch, 
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