Lyman Wight, Testimony, 1 July 1843 [Extradition of JS for Treason]
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, Testimony, , Hancock Co., IL, 1 July 1843, Extradition of JS for Treason (Nauvoo, IL, Municipal Court 1843). Copied [between 3 and 6 July 1843]; handwriting of unidentified scribe; signature of ; docket by , [, Hancock Co., IL], ca. [6] July 1843; notation by , ca. [6] July 1843; thirty-two pages; Nauvoo, IL, Records, CHL.
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with the keeper of the Penitentiary of the who brought with him 3 common Trace chains noosed Together by putting the small end through the ring then commenced chaining us up one by one and fastening with padlocks about 2 feet apart In this unhallowed situation the prisoners remained 15 days and in this situation delivered us To the professed civil authorities of the without any legal process being served on us at all during the whole time we were kept in chains with nothing but evidence and that either by the vilest apostates, or by the Mob who had committed murder in the state of . notwithstanding all this expartee evidence did inform our Lawyer 10 days previous to the termination of the Trial who he should commit and who he should not, & I heard say on his bench in the presence of hundreds of witnesses that there was no law for the mormons and they need not expect any— said he if the s exter [p. 29]
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