The then asked Mr Price, if he knew whether the would be up or not— Price answered he did not know— the then remarked that he wished he would come up, that his scalp he intended to have <​would rather have than any other mans​>— There were 30 or 40 armed men in this company, and after carrying us about 4 miles on towards , they released us. telling us we must leave the immediately, and if we did not want to fight them we must leave the immediately, for the they intended to have—— They said it was the mob who had plundered and burnt the <​their own​> houses in and then layed it on on the Mormons— A number of the company had something to say, tending pretty much to the same import with what was said by the — And further this deponent saith not:

of ourI am a citizen of , that about 4 days after Mill-port was burnt, I was taken prisoner, together with Mr Kelly, by a company of armed Mormons, near 40 in number [p. [81]]