Armed dissenters seized the Kirtland Temple and forced Apostle Brigham Young to flee for his life. Young had been acting as self-appointed bodyguard for Joseph Smith.
[Source: Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Appendix 7: Selected Chronology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-47, http://amzn.to/origins-power]
[HC 2: 529], resulting from JS's Kirtland Safety Society (Anti-Bank) Fraud. They couldn't get their money back, so they were either going to tar and feather JS (the 2nd time), or worse.
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