the next day I was in their hands a prisioner
with Wilson who said as he drove up
ha, ha ha By God we have got the prophet, he
gloried much in it, But he is now our prisioner
When Reynolds of Missouri & Wilson of Carthage
came to take me the first salutation was (instead
of taping me on the sho^u^lder & saying you are my prision
er) with two cocked pistols to my head God damn
you I will shoot you I will shoot you God damn you
I will shoot you nearly 50 times first & last I asked
them what they wanted to shoot me for, if you
make any resistance. O vary well says I I
have no resistance to make they then dragged
me away & while on the road I asked them by
what authority they did these things they said
by a writ from the Govornors of Missouri & Illinois
I then told them I wanted a writ o[f] Habeas
Corpus, the reply was God damn you you shant
have it; I told a man to Go to Dixon & get me a
writ of Habeas Corpus the reply was by
Willson God dam you you shant have it I will
shoot you. I sent for a lawyier to come one
came & Reynolds shut the door in his face & would
not let me speak to him & said again God damn
you I will shoot you I turned to him opened my
bosom & told him to shoot away & I did it freeq-
uently, I told Mr Reynolds that I would have
council to speak to & the Lawyers came to me
& I got a writ of Habeas Corpus for mysel[f] & got
a writ for Reynolds & Wilson for unlawful
procedings towards me & cruel treatment they
could not get out of town that night, I pleged my
honor to my counci[l] that the Nauvoo charter had
power to investigate the subject & we came to
Nauvoo by common consent & I am now

the next day I was in their hands a prisioner with Wilson who said as he drove up ha, ha ha By God we have got the prophet, he gloried much in it, But he is now our prisioner When Reynolds of Missouri & Wilson of Carthage came to take me the first salutation was (instead of taping me on the shoulder & saying you are my prision er) with two cocked pistols to my head God damn you I will shoot you I will shoot you God damn you I will shoot you nearly 50 times first & last I asked them what they wanted to shoot me for, if you make any resistance. O vary well says I I have no resistance to make they then dragged me away & while on the road I asked them by what authority they did these things they said by a writ from the Govornors of Missouri & Illinois I then told them I wanted a writ of Habeas Corpus, the reply was God damn you you shant have it; I told a man to Go to Dixon & get me a writ of Habeas Corpus the reply was by Willson God dam you you shant have it I will shoot you, I sent for a lawyier to come one came & Reynolds shut the door in his face & would not let me speak to him & said again God damn you I will shoot you I turned to him opened my bosom & told him to shoot away & I did it freequently, I told Mr Reynolds that I would have Council to speak to & the Lawyers came to me & I got a writ of Habeas Corpus for myself & got a writ for Reynolds & Wilson for unlawful procedings towards me & cruel treatment they could not get out of town that night, I pleged my honor to my council that the Nauvoo Charter had power to investigate the subject & we came to Nauvoo by common consent & I am now