Minutes and Testimonies, 12–29 November 1838 [State of Missouri v. Gates et al. for Treason]
Source Note
Minutes and Testimonies, , Ray Co., MO, 12–29 Nov. 1838, State of MO v. Gates et al. for Treason (Fifth Judicial Circuit of MO 1838); unidentified handwriting; 126 pages; Eugene Morrow Violette Collection, State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia.
the night before to see about a mob, he was apprized of their going at the time of their going, but I knew nothing of it until that morning when a messenger came to my s & informed him that there had been a fight— my then started to meet the company &c to see those who were wounded. And further this saith not
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Caroline Clark a witness on the part of the Defendents, produced sworn and examined deposeth and saith:
I was at Joseph Smith's Jr house the morning after the battle with — a messenger <named, I think, > came from the battleground <early in the morning> after Smith from saying that was wounded and wished to see Smith— I caught Joseph Smith’s and ’s horses, who started off together— (On cross examination) I did the feeding, wartering horses, cutting wood &c about the place of Joseph Smith Jr— and on that evening I was absent on from the house on that business long enough, perhaps half an hour, and finished about dark— I was in the house from that time through the night, and was not, out, that I remember of, at least not longer than to go a few paces for a pail of water— Joseph Smith Jr & were both in the house all the time, and was not absent <before bed time> that night that I know of— and had they [p. [118]]