Benjamin Winchester recalls seeing Smith drunk (1900).

Date
Nov 27, 1900
Type
Book
Source
Benjamin Winchester
Excommunicated
Critic
Hearsay
Reprint
Late
Reference

Benjamin Winchester, Testimony to Joseph Smith III, Council Bluffs, Iowa, November 27, 1900, p13 f671 Crowe, WL, Community of Christ Archives

Scribe/Publisher
The Digital Voice
People
Benjamin Winchester, Joseph Smith, Jr., Joseph Smith III
Audience
Reading Public
PDF
Transcription

As the church increased in numbers Smith got more saucy and more abusive and he got to drinking badly."

"[Q.] Did you ever see him drinking or drunk?

"I can not say that I ever saw him drinking, but I have seen him drunk."

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