He wasn't escaping anything until he was at risk of being shot.
Joseph Smith was awaiting a legal trial in Carthage, Illinois, staying in the upper bedroom (not the jail cell - he was not a flight risk) of the Carthage jail with a small group of supporters when an armed mob burst in and tried to push into the room. Joseph's supporters struggled to keep the door closed as Joseph ran to the open window to escape the mob, but more men were outside. Joseph was shot and was dead upon falling to the ground below.
The founder and leader of the Mormons, Joseph Smith, was escaping from a jail facility in Carthage, Illinois, when he was shot and killed on June 27, 1844. He was imprisoned on charges related to the destruction of a printing press and inciting a riot. Smith and his brother Hyrum were attacked by a mob while they were incarcerated, leading to their deaths.
You are thinking of Joseph Smith, Jr. He and his brother Hyrum were shot and killed by a mob in Carthage, Illinois on June 27, 1844.
you could possibly get killed
Of course. Many did.
Joseph Smith started the Mormon religion and thus the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints. But, when he was killed in 1844, Brigham Young moved the Mormons to the Great Salt Lake Valley.Joseph Smith
Extremely rarely and only when no answer to summons.
The Mormons used it as a code meaning "Killed"
I don't know who "he" is, but I don't think there has ever been a killer or a deadly event in which only Mormons were spared from death - so I guess the answer is yes.
he died when him and alex mason were escaping the prison
The legendary founder of Rome was Romulus, who killed his twin brother Remus in a quarrel over the building of the city.
Natural Death.
Tom was escaping prison, and they shot him. If he didn't have his messed up arm, he would have escaped.