“To the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints <​and to all the Honorable part of the community. It becomes my duty to lay before the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Saints,​> and the public generally, some important facts relative to the conduct and character of Dr. who has lately been expelled from the aforesaid Church; that the honorable part of community may be aware of his proceedings and be ready to treat him and regard him as he ought to be regarded, viz: as an imposter and base adulterer. It is a matter of notoriety that <​the​> said Dr. , became favorable to the doctrines taught by the Elders of the Church of Latter Day Saints, and located himself in the City of , about the month of August 1840, and soon after joined the Church. [HC 5:35] Soon after it was known that he had become a member of said Church, a communication was received at , from a person of respectable character, and residing in the vicinity where had lived. This letter cautioned us against him, setting forth that he was a very mean man, and had another wife, and two or three children in , Morgan County, Ohio; but knowing that it is no uncommon thing for good men to be evil spoken against, [p. 1342]