Account of Trial, [, Hancock Co., IL], 24–28 May 1845, State of IL v. Williams et al. (Hancock Co., IL, Circuit Court 1845); handwriting of ; 101 pages; Wilford Wood Museum, Bountiful, UT; images in Joseph Smith Murder Trial Papers, 1844–1845, CHL.
wounded him— I did not ask him <who wounded him.>— I did not See or Grover there at dinner that day <at the usual dinner time.>— I have no recollection to have seen either of <them> that day or night—
Reexamined by — The table on <which they eat Supper> was in the dining room, o◊◊◊nd <as well as> the side table wasalso on which the coffee was sitting and poured out for <Supper.> I have no recollection to have seen or Grover breakfast there that morning— they were encamped on the hill up by Squire [Abraham I.] Chittenden’s— dont know where they breakfasted— I think Capt Grover lodged at his office— knows that he had a bed at his office, and presumes that he slept there— dont know of his lodging at the tavern— I lodged at the Tavern <myself—>— there was an alarm in the latter part of the night by the firing of a gun, which produced a considerable consternation— heard of no alarm the next night— the fear had subsided by that time— and it was <then> understood that they were as much alarmed at as at any other place—
She Says She recollects The <day> Smiths were said to have been killed in — I was then living in — my husband was then keeping tavern in — I was at home all that evening and night— I was in my room when I first received the news of the death of the Smiths— I am acquanted with — did not See him and a Mr. James Gregg ride to our house about dark or a little before dark that evening— had no conversation with that evening about the murder of the Smiths— none at all— [p. 99]