“Mayor’s Office, Great Salt Lake City)

Utah Territory, January 13 A. D. 1855)

“Personally appeared before me , Mayor of said City, Jonathan Calkins Wright, who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that the foregoing statements contained in his report of the conversation between himself and Enoch C. March, in presence of George T. M. Davis Esq., on the 26th. day of June 1844, in the City of , is true to the best of his knowledge and belief, and further this deponent saith not.

“Sworn to and subscribed before me this 13th day of January 1855, in Great Salt Lake City, Utah Territory

“Personally appeared before me , County Recorder in and for Great Salt Lake County, in the Territory of Utah, , who being first duly sworn, deposeth and saith that about the hour of three o’clock in the afternoon of the twenty seventh day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty four, a short time only before addressed the citizens of , he <​()​> and his suite occupied an upper room in the of Joseph Smith in the City of , when he, the said had of necessity to enter said upper room for his hat, and as he entered the door, all were sitting silent except one man, who was standing behind a chair making a speech, and while in the act of dropping his right hand from an uplifted position, said ‘the [HC 6:588] deed is done before this time,’ which were the only words I heard while in the room, for on seeing me they all hushed in silence. At that time I could not comprehend the meaning of the words, but in a few hours after I understood them as referring to the murder of Joseph and in Carthage Jail.

“Subscribed and sworn to before me, the fourteenth day of April 1856

“State of Deseret)

Great Salt Lake County)

“Personally appeared before me recorder in and for Great Salt Lake County, this third day of October one thousand eight [p. 166]