Isaac Betts provides statement to Arthur Deming on Joseph using a peep-stone for money-digging.

Date
Jan 1888
Type
Periodical
Source
Isaac Butts
Critic
Non-LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Late
Reference

Statement by Isaac Butts in Arthur Deming, Naked Truths About Mormonism 1, no. 1 (January 1888): 2

Scribe/Publisher
Deming & Co.
People
Isaac Butts, Joseph Smith, Jr.
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

Young Jo had a forked witch-hazel rod with which he claimed he could locate buried money or hidden things. Later he had a peep-stone which he put into his hat and looked into it. I have seen both.

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