It is not new the fact that joseph smith, the founder of the mormon cult was arrested for "glass looking".
This was taking money from people and pretending to "see" by occult means treasure buried on that persons' land.
But, what mormons WON'T tell you is that joe was not only arrested but CONVICTED of this crime.
They will say he was arrested and not convicted, or they will play the "persecution" or "people had a grudge against him" cards.
Now, these mormons are either ignorant of the incident or are flat out lying to you.
Here i present PROOF by witnesses and OFFICIAL COURT DOCUMENTS which has been discovered that prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that joe was a con-man.
Hiel and Joseph Lewis: "Some time previous to 1825, a man by the name of Wm. Hale, a distant relative of Uncle Isaac Hale, came to Isaac Hale and said that he had been informed by a woman by the name of Odle, who claimed to possess the power of seeing under ground (such persons were then commonly called peepers), that there were great treasures concealed in the hill northeast from Isaac Hale's house, and by her directions Wm. Hale commenced digging. But, being too lazy to work and too poor to hire, he obtained a partner by the name of Oliver Harper, of New York State, who had the means to hire help. But after a short time operations were suspended, for a time, during which Wm. Hale heard of PEEPER Joseph Smith, jr., and wrote to him and soon visited him, and found Smith's representations were so flattering that Smith was either hired or became a partner with Wm. Hale, Oliver Harper and a man by the name of Stowell, who had some property. They hired men and dug in several places.”
"But while he was engaged in looking in his peep-stone and old white hat, directing the digging for money, and boarding at Uncle Isaac Hale's, he formed an intimacy with Mr. Hale's daughter, and after the abandonment of the money-digging speculation, he consummated the elopement and marriage to the said Emma Hale, and she became his accomplice in his humbug Golden Bible and Mormon religion.". Ibid. p. 78, 79. Close relatives of Emma Hale Smith.
