[FIGURES] Feb 8th 1886 [FIGURES]
to convers upon some Legislative Business and
Brother Franklin D Richards came in and
Anounced that Our Office was all surrounded by a bodyofMarshals I imediately locked up my
Papers in a draw[er] Put on my overshues hung up
my overcoat and took a survey of our position
I saw we had some 20 Marshals surrounded the Gardo House & Our office, and there was No Escape
Brother Erastus Snow & myself were the ownly two
Persons that they would be liable to arest we went up
into a small Bed Room & locked ourselves in &
we were there an hour watching the Marshals
guarding outside while others were searching the
Gardo House they searched that Building from top
to Bottom also the Lion & Behive House & President
Offices and were searching the Tithing Office and
after we had Been shut up an hour in our little
bed Room like two Rats in a trap we thought it
was not wisdom for us to be go caught in that
Brother Milando Pratt thought they were about
to search the office Brother Snow & myself then
went down into the Lower Room occupied By F D
Richards we saw the front of the Office occupied
By the Marshals I saw we had got to take some desperate
chance and But Little time to do it in the Marshals
wer all around & many were gath[er]ing in the streets
At first the Brethren seemed to think that one of
the Brethren had better drvive a Buggy up to the door
FIGURES Feb 8th 1886 FIGURES
to convers upon some Legislative Business and
Brother Franklin D Richards came in and
Anounced that Our Office was all surrounded
by a bodyofMarshals I imediately locked up my
Papers in a drawer Put on my overshues hung up
my overcoat and took a survey of our position
I saw we had some 20 Marshals surrounded the
Gardo House & Our office, and there was No Escape
Brother Erastus Snow & myself were the ownly two
Persons that they would be liable to arest we went up
into a small Bed Room & locked ourselves in &
we were there an hour watching the Marshals
guarding outside while others were searching the
Gardo House they searched that Building from top
to Bottom also the Lion & Behive House & President
Offices and were searching the Tithing Office and
after we had Been shut up an hour in our little
bed Room like two Rats in a trap we thought it
was not wisdom for us to be caught in that
Brother Milando Pratt thought they were about
to search the office Brother Snow & myself then
went down into the Lower Room occupied By F D
Richards we saw the front of the Office occupied
By the Marshals I saw we had got to take some desperate
chance and But Little time to do it in the Marshals
wer all around & many were gathering in the streets
At first the Brethren seemed to think that one of
the Brethren had better drive a Buggy up to the door
"Journal (January 1886 – December 1892)," February 8, 1886, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed April 24, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/46A0