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Show -aA of The First Born. Ervil, who had been deposed from his seat a3 Patriarch of the First Born Church and eventually was excommunicato from it for teaching 'false doctrine' - basicaLl--u-«<,+-•-,- that Joel ought to be murdered* - still had -not ^iy^ ,m UA~ patralineal claim to the mantle of Joseph. In killing Brother Rulon, who was a friend to all who earnestly lived the Principle although he disapproved of those who invented churches and set themselves us in impositions, Irvil would accomplish two goals in one. He would throw my father's group into pandemonium and perhaps be able to take control of some members. Secondly, he would bring his brother out of hiding and would have his 'militia' gun Verlan down at the funeral. He had arranged for three men to arrive at the funeral with n.;:-automatic weapons, each equipped with apair of thirty-round clips of cartridges taped together so that each gun could discharge sixty rounds in seconds. -Hey would fire on the crowd, killing whoever 3aw them hill Yerlan. But they had counted on the funeral being held at the school' - not at the high school auditorium procured to accomodate the largest funeral gathering ever held in the state of Utah. They had not planned on the enormous turn-out of media and police. They had expected law - enforcement officials to treat my father's murder in the same disinterested, ineffectual way to which they had responded to the threats against his life. But Hurray police seemed to have crossed a line into vendetta, their determination to protect their peculiar pclygemist segment was so strong. And gathering evidence, cooperative witnesses and a sense of mission seemed to compel them forward. They were at the funeral in full force. The 'militia' - a trio of subliterate JL.~,irv Pnd driven to the ward-house across O |