Elder Alburtus Willardson and associates' preservation during mob violence in Ipswich

On December 8, 1912, a mob of approximately two hundred people invaded a rented hall in Ipswich where a Latter-day Saint meeting was being held. The mob demanded to know about polygamy, called the speaker a liar, cut the lights, destroyed furniture, and threatened the elders with bodily harm. The elders managed to escape through the confusion and reached their lodging under police protection, though they were followed by a crowd numbering in the thousands. Despite further threats to their lodging, they remained physically unharmed.

Fuller account of this event (as retold in The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 74, No. 51 (December 19, 1912), p. 812):

On Sunday evening, December 8, 1912, Elders Alburtus Willardson and Amos R. Cook held a meeting in a rented hall in Ipswich. A mob of about two hundred people gathered, and for some time they kept up a continuous noise, shouting, singing, and interrupting the speakers. They demanded to know about polygamy, called the speakers liars, and otherwise conducted themselves in a most ungentlemanly manner. The noise and confusion continued until finally some one put out the lights, whereupon pandemonium reigned supreme. Chairs were thrown about, tables were overturned, and the doors broken down. The elders were sought after in the darkness with small search lights, many threats to do them bodily harm being indulged in by the mob. However, the elders slipped through the crowd in the general confusion, and with police protection reached their home safely. The mob, numbering about two thousand, followed them to their lodgings, and for some time kept up a demonstration, threatening to break into the house and do the elders bodily harm. The police, however, were on hand, and kept the crowd back, and the elders remained in their rooms until the mob dispersed.