Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brady had allegedly hacked a victim to death, Attorney General Sir Elwyn Jones opened the prosecution's case by recounting how the police had unraveled what the press has called "the Moor Murders." The break came, he said, when the two defendants staged a murder to impress David Smith, 19, Myra's brother-in-law, who had doubted Brady's boasts about his thrill killings. After witnessing the murder, Smith rushed home to his wife, then called the police. They searched the house that Ian and Myra shared in a Manchester suburb, found "a bundle wrapped...
Readings from De Sade. Sir Elwyn proceeded to call the first witness. She was Mrs. Maureen Smith, 19, Myra's sister. She testified that one night last December Myra had asked her husband David to walk her home. David Smith came to the stand and told what had happened when he got there. "I heard a scream and ran into the living room." There he saw Ian standing over a young man, striking him on the head with an ax. Said Smith: "I have seen butchers show as much emotion as he did when they were cutting...
...After Smith testified that Brady had introduced him to the works of the Marquis de Sade, the prosecutor read aloud a selection from the marquis: "In a word, murder is a horror, but a horror often necessary, never criminal, and one that must be tolerated in a republican state." He then asked Smith when Brady had read that passage to him. Replied Smith: "About three weeks before Evans was killed...
After Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith Jr. was killed by an Illinois lynch mob in 1844, Brigham Young led 10,000 of his followers on the great westward trek to the land of Zion that became Utah. Not all of the new religionists went with him. Denouncing Young as a usurper, a little band of Smith's disciples stayed in the Midwest to form the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, which last week opened its biennial world conference at its dome-topped headquarters in Independence...
...Saints appear to be a fossilized, forgotten sect: their membership is only 191,400, mostly in California and the Midwest, and the church's growth rate is a modest 5,000 a year. Nonetheless, the Reorganized Saints steadfastly maintain that they are the true spiritual heirs of Joseph Smith, and they have plenty of his progeny to bolster the claim. Although the Utah Mormons claim only one direct descendant of Smith, at least 190 are Reorganized Saints, and their President, W. Wallace Smith, 65, is the prophet's grandson. The Reorganized Saints hold to the belief that Joseph...