Account of Trial, [, Hancock Co., IL], 24–28 May 1845, State of IL v. Williams et al. (Hancock Co., IL, Circuit Court 1845); handwriting of ; 101 pages; Wilford Wood Museum, Bountiful, UT; images in Joseph Smith Murder Trial Papers, 1844–1845, CHL.
and right at the body of Joseph Smith. The whole composition of that book is s— I think I related the circumstances <to him> substantially as I have related them here— I was considerably alarmed— I was not a Mormon then but am now— I am a Cooper by trade, and have lived at <but now live in .>— <While at I drove a team part of the time for Deacon Kimball> <I> was from the State of is <am> 24 years of age— has <and have> lived in 7 or 8 years— <I> formerly lived at Geneva in Kane County— my father and mother are <both> dead— ’ position <at the Jail> was between the Carthage Grays and the Jail— dont know how far the others had got away before the Carthage Grays came up— I left town immediately after this occurrence.
Cross-Examined— I live abou at the time of this transaction I lived about three miles from Augusta— I now reside in — I had been at two or three days prior to the killing of the Smiths— I went there to go to — There were Boats leaving for after I went there— but I declined going— [p. 22]