untill about the first <​month​> of April when we were remanded To for Trial before the Grand Jury. There we were kept under the most Loathesome and despotic guard they could produce in this <​that​> country of Lawless mobs.— after 6 or 8 days the grand Jury (<​most of​> who<​m​> by the by were so drunk that they had to be carried out and in To their room as though they were lifeless,) formed a fictitious indictment which was sanctioned by (who by the by was the s attorney under at our Trial,) and who at that time stated that the mormons ought to be hung without Judge or Jury) he the sd made out a without day or date ordering the sheriff to take us to columbia the sheriff selected 4 men to guard 6 <​5​> of us we then took a circuitous route crossing prairies 16 miles without houses and after Travelling 3 days and <​the​> sheriff <​& I​> were together by themselves <​ourselves​> for 5 miles from any of the rest of the company, for 16 miles at a stretch, the sheriff here observed to <​me​> that he wished to God he was at home and & <​my​> [p. 31]