After had been taken by a States warrant for stealing, and the stolen property found concealed in the house of , in which nefarious transaction had also participated, stole the property, conveyed it to , and to and there the officers of the law found it.

While in the hands of the officer, and under an arrest for this vile transaction, and if possible to hide your shame from the world, like criminals, which, indeed you were, you appealed to our beloved bretheren Presidents Joseph Jr Smith Jr and , men whose characters you had endeavoured to destroy by every artifice you could invent, not even the basest lying excepted: and did you find them revengeful? no, but notwithstanding all your scandalous attacks, still such was the nobleness of their characters that even vile enemies could not appeal to them in vain. They enlisted, as you well know, their influence to save you from your just fate, and they, by their influence delivered you out of the hand [p. [15]]