Minutes and Testimonies, 12–29 November 1838 [State of Missouri v. Gates et al. for Treason]
Source Note
Minutes and Testimonies, , Ray Co., MO, 12–29 Nov. 1838, State of MO v. Gates et al. for Treason (Fifth Judicial Circuit of MO 1838); unidentified handwriting; 126 pages; Eugene Morrow Violette Collection, State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia.
country to see what was going on. they <said they> only hoped he would, that they intended to scalp him the first man as soon as he did come, for he was nothing but an infernal mob himself— There was a great deal more said in the way of threats, they enquired of me if I knew if there were any mobs comeing against them. I answered that I knew of none, they said that the whole was a mob.— I asked them what they called themselves, they answered they were militia— After carrying us on towards (where they said they intended to take us— ) afterbut after carrying us about 4 miles, they released us— This company bore a white flag with them— And further this deponent saith not
Addison Price
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Samuel Kimble, a witness on behalf of the State, produced sworn & examined— deposeth and saith:
That he went to That I reside near , and was repeatedly warned & my life threatened if I did not go to & take up arms, about a week before the surrender of one the mormons to the militia, I went to , my name was enroled & I was forbid to leave The — and <was> paraded twice a day and the roll called. While there, I heard Joseph Smith Jr in a speech to the company of perhaps 200 hundred under arms.in which he said <say>, [p. [83]]