he chained my right leg and then passed the chain under the horse’s belly and So up to my left hand: In this way I travelled 9 miles, when we stopped and he changed the chain from my hand to the horse’s neck: we arrived at Monticello and I was chained all night. The next day I was conveyed to Waterloo and delivered into the Custody of the Sheriff of Clark County. I was kept under a strong guard by day and at night, chained to one of the guard or the bed post. I was informed that Middleston and McCoy procured an indicted <​indictment​> against me by giving bonds to the amount of some two or three hundred dollars, thus they would hunt up testimony to the point for next court, theire b[e]ing nothing against me but the affidavit of my before alluded to, and so the grand Jury formed a bill. Ellison, my lawyer, deceived me, and put over my case for six months, because, as I suppose, I being Kidnaped [p. [7]]