Affidavit from William Daniels, 4 July 1844, William W. Phelps Copy
Source Note
William Daniels, Affidavit, before , , IL, 4 July 1844; handwriting of ; docket in handwriting of ; four pages; JS Office Papers, CHL.
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that they then turnd to the left between the and road and were not seen again by your affiant till they arrived at the Jail in : that among the names of those who committed the murder at the Jail in Hancock County aforesaid on the 27th day of Jine, 1844 at about 5 o’clock and 20 minutes, was Col of Green Plains precint, Captain [Alexander] Wires, Chttenden Esq of ,— Lockwood of , Houck the Tailor, Captain Grovener three Brothers by the name of “Stephens’, Coopers, Allen a cooper <all> of and a man by the name of Wells was wounded in the right arm.
That your affiant would further state that this company before mentioned were painted black; that the guns were of the guard at the Jail were loaded with blank cartridges, that this was an arrangement entered into by the Carthage Greys as said the messenger who came to meet said Company in the morning: [p. [3]]