Minutes and Testimonies, 12–29 November 1838 [State of Missouri v. Gates et al. for Treason]
Source Note
Minutes and Testimonies, , Ray Co., MO, 12–29 Nov. 1838, State of MO v. Gates et al. for Treason (Fifth Judicial Circuit of MO 1838); unidentified handwriting; 126 pages; Eugene Morrow Violette Collection, State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia.
James. C. Owens a witness produced sworn a who was produced on a former day, and testified, being called back to the bar again, further deposeth and saith— He does not think that William Whitman was in the last expedition to ,
I think he was left at as captain of the town guard— though he may have been in for aught I know. And further this deponent saith not
James C. Owens
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William Splawn a witness produced, sworn and examined in behalf of the State deposeth and saith:
I was at Eli Bagley’s in , when an armed company of men came to his house. about 10 or 12 men in number of [illegible] and too two of the Defts were of the company <that came to Bagley’s>. they enquired who I was, & if I was a mob character, & learning that I was not, and let me alone they inquired for , and said they heard he was a mob character & had gone for a mob <men> to fight them— & that if they got their eyes on him they would take his life & that he had better keep out of the way— to be possitive that was of the company. I will not, but I have little or no doubt of the subject <it from his appearance>— and further this deponent saith not [p. [64]]