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.
untill about the first <month> of April when we were remanded To for Trial before the Grand Jury. There we were kept under the most Loathesome and despotic guard they could produce in this <that> country of Lawless mobs.— after 6 or 8 days the grand Jury (<most of> who<m> by the by were so drunk that they had to be carried out and in To their room as though they were lifeless,) formed a fictitious indictment which was sanctioned by (who by the by was the s attorney under at our Trial,) and who at that time stated that the mormons ought to be hung without Judge or Jury) he the sd made out a without day or date ordering the sheriff to take us to columbia the sheriff selected 4 men to guard 6 <5> of us we then took a circuitous route crossing prairies 16 miles without houses and after Travelling 3 days and <the> sheriff <& I> were together by themselves <ourselves> for 5 miles from any of the rest of the company, for 16 miles at a stretch, the sheriff here observed to <me> that he wished to God he was at home and & <my> [p. 31]