In July 1844, just 10 days after the murder of Joseph and Hyrum Smith, Dr. Robert D. Foster came back to Nauvoo, ready to start up in business again.  Foster had been a leading critic of Joseph Smith, and had been instrumental in getting the Smiths locked up in the Carthage Jail (and, it was suspected, of conspiring in the murder).  While many people in Nauvoo were outraged at his brazen return, he defied any man in the city to make him leave.  

But Foster forgot an important aspect of life in Nauvoo -- You don't mess with the sisters.  

To learn more about the stories in this episode, please check out:

Andrew H. Hedges,  Joseph Smith, Robert Foster, and Chauncey and Francis Higbee, 18 Rel. Edu. 89 (2017), available at https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/3753/.  

The Journals of William Clayton (ed. George D. Smith) (1995).

James B. Allen, No Toil Nor Labor Fear: The Story of William Clayton (2002).

Dallin H. Oaks & Marvin S. Hill, Carthage Conspiracy: The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith (1979).

Deseret News (24 June 1857), re-printing John Taylor's 1844 editorial in the Nauvoo Neighbor railing against mob violence and the attack on Chisolm, a Black resident of the City.