Wilson to Forney: Orphans should be detained until they can testify in the (first) trial.
- Type
- Letter
- Source
- Alexander Wilson Non-LDS
- Hearsay
- DirectReprint
- Reference
Alexander Wilson, Letter to Jacob Forney, June 27, 1859 in Senate Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Public Documents and Executive Documents: 14th Congress, 1st Session-48th Congress, 2nd Session and Special Session, Volume 11 (United States Congress, 1860), 64-65
- Scribe/Publisher
- Alexander Wilson
- Transcription
Sir: I deem it important to the cause of justice, that John Calvin Soriel [Miller] and Ambrose Miram Taggit [Emberson Milum Tackitt], being orphans, rescued from the Mountain Meadow massacre, should be detained, and by you held subject to my order, to testify in such legal proceedings as may be instituted against parties charged with molesting and killing certain individuals who constituted an emigration party from Salt Lake City to California, at the Mountain Meadows, in this Territory, between the months of August & October, A.D. 1857.
- BHR Staff Commentary
Alexander Wilson (U.S. Attorney for Utah Territory) to Jacob Forney: Orphans should be detained until they can testify in the (first) trial
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