003

John D. Lee John M. Higby, George
Adair, Junior, Elliott Wilden,
Samuel Jukes, Phillip K. Smith,
and William C. Stewart late of
Utah Territory aforesaid on the
sixteenth day of September one
thousand eight hundred and
fifty seven with force and arms
as Mountain Meadow Valley
in "now" Washington County Utah
Territory aforesaid in and upon
the bodies of John Smith and
fifty other men women and children
whose names are to the jurors
aforesaid wholly unknown
in the peace of said territory died
and other being, feloniously, willfully
premeditated designedly and of
malice aforethought did jointly make
an assault upon the said John
Smith and such of this aforesaid
unknown persons. And that the said
William H. Dame, Isaac C. Haight
John D. Lee John M. Higby George
Adair, Junior Elliott Wilden
Samuel Jukes Phillip K. Smith
and William C. Stewart with certain
guns then and there charged with
gun powder and leaden bullets