145 years ago today - 23 September 1871

BOOK OF BLOOD.—It is believed that the Mormon church has a record of all the murders committed by ecclesiastical order in Utah during the past twenty-four years. The crimes of all the rest of the world in that time mould make a brief memorandum in competition to this.

[Source: "Book of Blood," Corinne Daily Reporter, 23 September 1871, 2/2–4 (provided by Will Bagley)]

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