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.
his waggon— and that he stated they got into his waggon, while testifying before the grand jury— did not hear what he said on yesterday about the Carthage Grey— I think he said before the Grand jury, that he <the Carthage Grey> was riding on an iron gray poney— Dont know that has Seen that memorandum— ( here Said that he had seen it, and send <that he> had sent for it, and expects to receive it this evening in the mail)— I dont distinctly recollect that he Said to the grand jury what the Carthage Grey Said— Miss Eliza Graham, was not called and examined before the Grand Jury— Closed at 10 o’clock a. m.
I was on the grand jury, when the indictment was found against the Defendants now on trial— There was a witness examined before the Jury named — he Said he saw at the Jail riding a bay or Sorrel horse— he thought a sorrel horse— that he Saw him at the Jail during the whole time of the transaction— setting on a horse— he said that a person represented to him to be a Carthage Grey— met them— that the first he saw, of him, he was in a conversation one side with and Mr Stevens [Henry Stephens]— that he heard the Grey Say now is the time if any thing was <is> to be done— or words to that import—<*> <* on being interrogated by , he said—> that he <(the Witness)> was testifying from a memorandum he made himself of the evidence of before the jury, to refresh his memory—
(here by common consent of the Counsel a written Statement of the evidence of <William M. Daniels and> <which was referred to by> in the possessionof the Witness was allowed to <be> read in Evidence to the jury, as a Statement, [p. 76]