Closing Argument of Onias Skinner, 29 May 1845 [State of Illinois v. Williams et al.]
Source Note
, Closing Argument, [, Hancock Co., IL], 29 May [1845], State of IL v. Williams et al. (Hancock Co., IL, Circuit Court 1845); unidentified handwriting, possibly ; docket by , [, Hancock Co., IL, ca. 29 May 1845]; eight pages; Mormon Trial Notes, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, Springfield, IL. Includes docket.
the jail to the devil— another that he would go to and see what they were disbanded for— another cursed the — and another the mormons Walker said he did not recollect of s making a speech— Now if made a speech to excite the passions of the men at the Shantees and urge them on to blood— would and the murder of the Smiths, would not Walker have heard it and recollect it— Walkers want of recollection is accounted for by supposing that the misunderstanding and speech said to have been made by was a mere conversation to those around him in which he was detailing the new [said?] conversation between him & the — Some of the men were shooting at a mark, & if the object of that speech was to raise volunteers to go to would not the men have been called up to hear it — Walker said he heard nothing about the object of going to — I saw volunteers were unquestionably called for. The call for volunteers was a matter almost of no moment— the wit[ness] does not know who made it or for what object it was made— and [illegible] [now?] the call is not brought home to any of the defts [p. [7]]