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 ; fifty-seven pages; Collection of Manuscripts about Mormons, 1832–1954, Chicago History Museum.
I did not stop when people came up to me— after I was going off they called to me showed some money looked like silver. had it in his right hand I said nothing but, went off— They met me down near the corner of Jersey & York streets in — They had been to the house & enquired for me— I mentioned this the same day I told it to Pierce & Haywood before I came up to Court I did not ask the men where they came from nor what their names wer[e] did not look after them as they went off do not know where they went I joined the morman church not a great while before last Court— I know Jno D Millen [Mellen] he looks like one of the men who offered me the money he is about the size of one of them but I do not say that he is one I do not know whether or as I have told Inglish that I had written a book and would mak[e] a great speculation out of this affair— the light which appeard was like a flash of lightning I had not been doing anything [p. [20]]