George W. Schweich relates to I. Woodbridge Riley that he attempted to get David Whitmer to confess to fraud, who refused.

Date
Apr 6, 1899
Type
Letter
Source
George W. Schweich
Non-LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Reprint
Reference

George W. Schweich, Letter to I. Woodbridge Riley, April 6, 1899, rep. The Founder of Mormonism: A Psychological Study of Joseph Smith, Jr. (New York, NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1902), 219–220

Scribe/Publisher
Dodd, Mead & Company
People
Isaac Woodbridge Riley, George W. Schweich, David Whitmer
Audience
Isaac Woodbridge Riley, Reading Public
Transcription

I have begged him to unfold the fraud in the case and he had all to gain and nothing to lose to but speak the word if he thought so—but he has described the scene to me many times, of his vision about noon time in an open pasture—there is only one explanation barring an actual miracle and that is this—If that vision was not real it was HYPNOTISM, it was real to grandfather IN FACT.

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