Indictment, circa 10 April 1839 [State of Missouri v. Gates et al. for Treason]
Source Note
Indictment, [Honey Creek Township], Daviess Co., MO, ca. 10 Apr. 1839, State of MO v. Gates et al. for Treason (Daviess Co., MO, Circuit Court 1839); handwriting of ; docket and notations by with probable signature of Robert P. Peniston Sr., [Honey Creek Township, Daviess Co., MO], [ca. 10 Apr. 1839]; eleven pages; partial manuscript in Historical Department, Nineteenth-Century Legal Documents Collection, CHL. Complete photocopy in Max H. Parkin, Collected Missouri Court Documents, CHL.
maliciously and traitorously cause and procure to be published and dispersed divers other books pamphlets, letters, declarations instructions, resolutions, orders addresses and writings so respectively prepared, composed published dispersed as last aforesaid purporting and containing there in amongst other things, incitements, encouragements, and exortations, to move induce and pursuade the Citizens, of our said State of to aid and assist in Carrying into effect such traitorous subversion, & alteration, and [illegible], as last aforesaid, and also containing therein amongst other things. information instructions, and directions, to the Citizens of our said , how, when, and upon what occasion the traitorous purposes last aforesaid, should and might be carried into effect.— And further to bring fulfil perfect, and bring to effect their most wicked, treason and treasonable compassings and imaginations aforesaid the said defendants as such false traitors as aforesaid together with divers other false traitors, whose names are to the said Jurors unknown, on the [blank] day of [blank] in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty eight and on divers other days and times as well before as after, at the County of aforesaid with force and arms, maliciously, and traitorously did procure and provide and did then and there maliciously and traitorously did cause and procure to be provided and did then and there. Maliciously and traitorously consent and agree to [p. 7]