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.
Henry Wood a witness on the part of the state, produced sworn and examined— deposeth and saith:
-[At this stage of the trial examination, <the following named defendants,> , & Sylvester Hewlett were brought to the bar of the court and put <upon> their trial for the offences alledged against the other defendants, and time being allowed them forto procure counsel, they informed the court that they were ready to appear by themselves & their counsel Esqr the examination then progressed]-
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Andrew. J. Job, a witness for the state, produced sworn & examined, deposeth and saith:
While the mormon troops were in in the last expedition, I was taken prisoner—by thema as he was called who I have since learned was a , while they were getting me into , about midnight I passed on between Mill Port &c that place & counted ten houses on fire. , Ebenr. Page, , , & , were of the company that took me prisoner. When the houses were burning, I heard Ebenezer Page say that the mob were burning their own houses, & would lay it on the mormons. I observed it was very curious they should burn their own houses. He replied it was, but they were doing so— I arrived at that night about mid a prisoner, and was detained there until next morning about day break, when I was [p. [70]]