28 April at public meeting

in the course of conversation said Gen[eral] Smith kept a gang of robbers & plunderers about his house for the purpose of robbing & plunderng & dividng the spoils, I am not certain which expression was first. I also heard him say that Gen. Smith tried to get him to kill

anything that had a tendency to draw forth Mo

none that I know of.

Should you think the meeting was got up for this purpose.— I should think it was

would you think that the from the whole tenor if the meeting the reading of affidavits &.c that it was his design. I should think it was to injure him & other

By court

Did time commence soon after he came here that he tried to implicate his charter, yes dont know the exact time but certainly soon after

B Court did he speak of him as Gen. Smith

Yes

Did he call him by the name of Gen Smith

Yes.

Mr Miller. I heard say that Gen Smith received a gang of <​plunderers​> Robbers counterfeiters & he received half of that [p. [1]]