Q. How long before the meeting did Whim tell you this? A. It was about eight or ten days.
Q. What did Whim say to you? A. He said not to come back any more; to tell the peace commissioners not to meet the Indians any more in council; that they were going to kill them.
Q. Did you tell General Canby not to go? A. I did not tell General Canby; I told Meacham and Thomas.
Q. Did Mr. Meacham believe you? A. Yes, sir.
Q. Did he say he believed you? A. Yes.
Q. What was done with the bodies of Dr. Thomas and General Canby? A. They stripped their clothes off of them.
Q. Did you see them do that? A. I seen them strip Dr. Thomas. I saw Steamboat Frank taking Dr. Thomas’s coat. Steamboat Frank was one of the three that came up.
The above questions and answers were duly interpreted to the prisoners by the sworn interpreter, Riddle.
The judge-advocate then asked the prisoners severally if they desired to cross-examine the witness, to which they replied in the negative.