commenced It was, so plainly manifested by the that he wanted the witnesses to prove us guilty of treason that no person could avoid seeing it. The same feelings were also visible in the ’s . made an observation something to this effect as he was giving direction<​s​> to the scribe who was employed to write down the testimony, that he wanted all the testimony directed to certain points; being taken sick at an early stage of the trial, I had not the oppertunity of hearing <​but​> a small part of the testimony, when it was deliverd before the court. During the progress of the trial after the adjournment of the court in the evening our lawyers would come into the prison and there the matter would be talked over. The prop[r]iety of our sending for witnesses was also discused Our attorney’s said, that they would recommend to us not to introduce any evidence at that trial. said it would avail us nothing, for the would put us into prison, if a cohort of angels were to come and swear that we were inocent, and beside that he said that if we were to give to the court the names of our witnesses there was a band there ready to go, and they would go and drive them out of the country or arrest them and have them cast into prison, to prevent them from swearing or else kill them. It was finally concluded to let the matter be so for the present. During the progress of the trial and while I was laying sick in prison I had an oppertunity of hearing a great deal said by those of them who would come in. The subject was the all absorbing one. I heard them say that we must be put to death— that the character of the required <​it​> The must justify herself in the course she had taken and nothing but punishing us with death could save the credit of the and it must therefore be done. I heard a party of them one night telling about some female whose person they had violated, and this language was used by one of them “The damned bitch how <​she​> yelled.” Who this person was I did not know, but before I got out of prison I heard that a widow whose husband had died some few months [p. [21]]