authority- * See the testimony of Hyrum Smith,Wasp extra, July 27, 1842, republished inHistory of the Church,Vol. V, pp. 71-2; and the statement of Zeruiah N. Goddard, with whom Sarah Pratt boarded for several months, published inAffidavits and Certificates Disproving the Statements and Affidavits Contained in John C. Bennett's Letters(Nauvoo, August 31, 1842). There can be no doubt that Bennett was an abortionist. Sarah Pratt told W. Wyl many years later that Bennett had showed her one of his instruments and indicated that he had performed illegal operations in the city.Mormon Portraits, p.
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