this affiant M Shealey states that he is well aquanted with the petitioner & the Prisnor Gorge Knarr & the circumstances of the killing of M Hidesman he also knows that knarr left his wife with the Famaly of of Hidesman while he whent to the states of Mo & that the Riff said Hidesman started a Report about the wife of knarr to the offect that men had visited her at his house & that she had been gilty of Lude Licivis behavor as Indicate an mechart woman that he had a co[...]nversation with Hidesman about said Report & Remonstrated with him obout circulating said Report & told him what the concequences would be if Knarr Returned & found out that he had started said Report he Replyed that he did not Care a Dam that he Intended to Ruing her caracture that she had made him mad & he did not care for the concequences

after Knarr Returned home I at knarr Request told Hidesman that he must not Come to the House of knarr he said he would go when he felt like it & would aske Knarr no boat he knows that Hidesman was kiled at the House of knarrs some few days after I had delivered the message Requesting him to stay away & further this affiant states that he was sepened as a witness to prove said facts at the trial but he was at the time of the trial & is yet living in Pendleton Cty & on the day before the trial he was taken sick so that he could not attend

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sworn to before me by M Sheley this 13th day of July 1861 & I verify that the affiant M Shely is a credeble witness

G C Lightfoot J P P C

John Knarr
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