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JS, Journal, 13 Dec. 1841 and 21 Dec. 1842; Orson Spencer, “Death of Our Beloved Brother Willard Richards,” Deseret News (Salt Lake City), 16 Mar. 1854, [2].
Deseret News. Salt Lake City. 1850–.
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“Orrin Porter Rockwell,” Daily Missouri Republican (St. Louis), 6 Mar. 1843, [3]; see also Historical Introduction to Letter from Isaac Galland, 11 Mar. 1843.
Daily Missouri Republican. St. Louis. 1822–1869.
Butterfield was likely referring to Hamilton Gamble, a prominent St. Louis attorney who later served as chief justice of the Missouri Supreme Court and as Missouri governor during the Civil War. It is also possible he was referring to Archibald Gamble, Hamilton’s older brother, who was also an attorney as well as clerk of the St. Louis circuit court. (Scharf, History of Saint Louis, 2:1467–1469.)
Scharf, J. Thomas. History of Saint Louis City and County, from the Earliest Periods to the Present Day: Including Biographical Sketches of Representative Men. 2 vols. Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1883.
Allen was Hamilton Gamble’s law partner and a prosecuting attorney for St. Louis County. (Scharf, History of Saint Louis, 2:1476.)
Scharf, J. Thomas. History of Saint Louis City and County, from the Earliest Periods to the Present Day: Including Biographical Sketches of Representative Men. 2 vols. Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1883.
Rockwell was committed to the Jackson County jail on 18 March 1843, two days before the next session of the Jackson County Circuit Court was scheduled, but his case was apparently not presented to the grand jury during the March term. The next session was scheduled to begin on 18 September 1843. Missouri law required prisoners to wait until a grand jury was held in the county where the offense allegedly occurred and the accused was indicted before the defendant could seek a change of venue. (Indictment, Independence, MO, Aug. 1843, State of Missouri v. Rockwell [Jackson Co. Cir. Ct. 1843], in Transcript of Proceedings, 18 Nov. 1843, [2]–[3], State of Missouri v. Rockwell [Clay Co. Cir. Ct. 1843], Historical Department, Nineteenth-Century Legal Documents Collection, CHL; An Act to Fix the Time of Holding Circuit Courts [24 Feb. 1843], Laws of the State of Missouri [1842–1843], p. 52, sec. 6; An Act to Regulate Proceedings in Criminal Cases [21 Mar. 1835], Revised Statutes of the State of Missouri [1834–1835], p. 486, art. 5, sec. 15.)
Historical Department. Nineteenth-Century Legal Documents Collection, ca. 1825–1890. CHL. CR 100 339.
Laws of the State of Missouri, Passed at the Session of the Fifteenth General Assembly, Begun and Held at the City of Jefferson on Monday, the Twenty-fifth Day of December, Eighteen Hundred and Forty-eight, and Ended on Monday the Twelfth Day of March, Eighteen Hundred and Forty-nine. Jefferson: Hampton L. Boon, 1849.
The Revised Statutes of the State of Missouri, Revised and Digested by the Eighth General Assembly during the Years One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-Four, and One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-Five. . . . St. Louis: Argus Office, 1835.
Missouri law permitted either party to petition the court for a continuance. (An Act to Regulate Proceedings in Criminal Cases [21 Mar. 1835], Revised Statutes of the State of Missouri [1834–1835], p. 491, art. 6, sec. 16.)
The Revised Statutes of the State of Missouri, Revised and Digested by the Eighth General Assembly, During the Years One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-Four, and One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-Five. Together with the Constitutions of Missouri and of the United States. 3rd ed. St. Louis: Chambers and Knapp, 1841.