Q. How did you know they were going to kill them? A. I heard Jack and Schonchin talking about it.
Q. Any one else? A. That is all that I heard say anything about it.
Q. How long was this before the killing? A. I don’t know exactly, but it was eight or ten days.
Q. Did you speak to anybody about it? A. Yes, I told about it.
Q. Whom? A. I told this woman here (Tobey, Riddle’s wife).
Q. What did you tell her? A. I told her to tell the peace commissioners not to come; that I did not want to see them killed.
The judge-advocate then asked each prisoner, successively, if he desired to cross-examine this witness; each answered in the negative. The commission desired to put no questions.
While this man is under examination as a witness, A. B. Meacham enters the court-room. The prisoners