On June 27, 1844, Mormon founder Joseph Smith and his brother were fatally shot by a mob. LDS apostle John Taylor was shot, too, but survived when the bullet his pocket watch. And for years, there have been questions about that story and the watch.
, a collection care specialist at the Church History Library, led the watch investigation, which was divided into three teams — one focusing on history and two looking at forensic evidence. In the latter category was a group led by Paul Rimmasch and Mitchell Pilkington, criminologists at Weber State.
Two of the three teams concluded that “some research supports a fragmented or ricocheted bullet,” Warburton says, “not a direct hit.”“The face did, indeed, lack substantial damage,” they write in the paper they presented in New York. “Furthermore, when the so-called ‘bullet mark’ was examined with oblique light, it was noted that this defect had been caused by the outward bulging of the underlying base metal and not by a projectile hitting the surface.
The damage was “more consistent with being shot,” Pilkington says in an interview “than being crushed.”
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