Item Detail
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18802
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2
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17
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English
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The Spencer-Pike Affair
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Utah Historical Quarterly
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Winter 2008
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76
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no.1
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79-93
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This article is an account of the Spencer-Pike affair. Howard O. Spencer was attacked and beaten by a soldier named Ralph Pike in 1859. Pike was shot to death in Salt Lake City a few months later. Howard O. Spencer was tried for this act thirty years later in 1889, and was found not guilty. The author feels that the violence was indicative of the atmosphere in this part of the country during the Utah War period (1857-1858), and that the verdict of not guilty at the trial was a result of abivalence about law and order in this and other areas of the country at that time. The author concludes that the fine lawyers and high amount of bail provided to Howard Spencer indicate that the Church did not want him found guilty.
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