[ Full-text transcription of: Witness Thomas M. Odle - Resident of the house of John Raglin ]
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was present and
followed Mr Rigdon after he also made the
above declaration
and said he did not wish to do any thing un
=lawful. he then
spoke of the fate of Judas & said that Peter had
hung him (Judas)
& said that he approved of Mr Rigdons
Sermon & called
it a good sermon and further this de
=ponent saith
not Reed
Peck
James C Owens a witness who was produced on a
former day and [ ]
been called back to the bar again
further deposeth
and Saith. He does not think Wil
=liam Whitman was
in the Danit expedition to Daviess, I think
he was left at far
west as Captain of the town guard though
he may have been in
Daviess for aught I Know and further
this deponent saith
not James C Owens
William
Splaun a witness produced
sworn and
examined on behalf
the State deposeth and saith I was
at Eli Bagleys in
Daviess county when an armed company
of men about 1000/2
in numbers James H Raulins and
Jesse D Hunter two
of the defendants were of the company
they came to
Bagleys they enquired who I was and if I was a
mob character and
learning I was not they let me alone
they inquired for
John Raglin and Said they heard he was a mob
character and had
gone for men to fight them and if they got
their eyes on him
they would take his life & that he had better
keep out of the way
to be positive that Hunter was of the
company I will not
but I have little or no doubt of it from his ap
-perance this was on
Saturday after I learned that
was burned the
Thursday before and during the time the mormon
troops were in
Daviess county and further this deponent saith not
William Splaion
Thomas M Odell a witness produced sworn and
examined
on behalf the State
deposeth and Saith, that on the Saturday after
Raglins house in
=red for John
Raglin I told them where he had gone, they said
their object was to
drive the mob from the county and said that
I must go. I
replied I could not. that I had no way to get off
and that my family
in is bare footed they replied that made
no difference I
must go, and said if I was not gone by next
morning by sunrise
they would take my life, they told
Mrs Raglin she must
[ ] that there she could not stay
and that Raglin had
better never show himself there that they
would take his life
if ever they set their eyes on him next
morning
by the assistance of friends we did start leaving most of our
property
there, Since then I have returned and found the
houses
burnt & the property gone consisting
of hous hold
plunder
and 2 q bee gums they enquired for Gums
and got
down
one and took it away from the house belonging to
one
Josiah Littlefield they further said that they had been driven
as
long as they were a going to. that they had got Strong enough
now
to defend themselves that they intended to do it by the Sword
that
they were at the defiance of any Set of men who could come a
=gainst
them & that they now intended to make it a war of extermi
=nation,
the following of the defendants were in the above Company
Voit. James H. Rattens Jesse D Hunter Darwin Chase & I
think
from his appearance Maurice Phelps was there but may
be
mistaken, Hunter appeared to be Captain or Commander of
the
Company as he did the most of the talking. but most all of
them
had something to Say and further this deponent saith not
his
Thos M x Odle
mark
John
Raglin a
witness produced sworn and examined on behalf
the
State deposeth and saith I was in
an
attack on it which took place on one thursday in October. All the
persons
that were there left the town. Another
Mormons, as I believe them
to
be to the number of about 150 or 200 all armed took posses-
=sion
of the town and the Store and other houses were burnt as I
learned
that evening and further this deponent saith not
his
John X Raglin
mark
Allen
Rathburn a witness produced sworn and examined
on
behalf of the State deposeth and Saith, On the day before
the
battle with Bogard I was I was in far West and early in the morn
=ing
Daniel Carn One of the defendants here asked me to
help
him to grease his waggon I did so and asked him where
he
was going he said he was going out to Mr Raglins in
were
going for directly afterwards I was down at Morrisons
Store
in far west there was a Company of 10 or 12 men with 2
or
3 waggons I heard Mr Huntingdon ask for brimstone some
of
the Company said they had 2 pounds Huntingdon answered that would
do,
Mr Hunter one of the defendants here, gave the word of com
mand
and they marched off Mr Daniel Carn with his Waggon
with
them late that evening I saw Danl Carn [“with” crossed out] his waggon
at
his grocery door in far west I saw Carn and Huntingdon unload
=ing
& the waggon was loaded with one bee gum and houshold
plunder
consisting of beds or bed cloaths Kindes tied up Also
there
were onions in the waggon Mr Carn’s that evening
remarked
that there would be in that night