“I left my home in to go to , where I had lived the summer before, for the purpose of meeting some debts, I fell in company with a , who stated to me that he was in search of some horses that had strayed from him, we had not proceeded far to[HC 4:180]gether, before we were hailed by twelve armed men, who demanded of us where we were going. I stated to them where I was going, and likewise stated his business, they then asked if we were Mormons, we said we were, they then said that we could go no further, they said they were sworn to kill all the damd mormons that they could find, and took us Prisoners, tied us with ropes, and took us to a boat, and four of the Company (one by the name of Martin, the others not known) took us to , to a little Town called Tully, where we were put under guard, and kept till eleven o’clock in the evening, when three men came to us with a long rope, and tied it round each of our necks, I asked them what they were going to do with us, one said they were going to take us to the , kill us, and make Cat fish bait of us, his name was Uno they then led us to the Woods, I should think about three quarters of a mile distant, they then parted us, took and stripped me naked and tied me fast to a tree, one of the Company cocked a pistol, and [p. 1090]