Territory of Washington
County of Spokane} ss
In the District Court of the Fourth Judicial District holding terms at Spokane Falls.
Territory of Washington
vs.
Ray Raymond
W.A. Gibbons being duly sworn on my oath depose and say that I am now and have been for the past twenty years a resident of Hangman Creek Precinct Spokane County Washington Territory. That I have heard that there was such a case as that above named. That I am well acquainted with the people residing in said Hangman Creek precinct and have personal acquintance with the greater part of them. That I have had opportunity to hear the opinion and sentiment of the people of said precinct expressed and in a general way know the same. That I have never heard any expressions of hostility to or prejudice against the said defendant Ray Raymond in said precinct. That if there were any such expressions of prejudice or ill will by the people of said precinct against said defendant I should certainly have heard them. That from my first information the alleged facts relating to the homicide out of which said action great[?] are not sufficiently known to the people of said precinct to have enabled them to give an opinion for the guilt or innocence of said defendant. And affiant further saith that there are about four hundred people living in said Hangman Creek precinct and that he verily believes that a large number of legally qualified jurors can be secured in said precinct to serve as jurors said action and further affiant saith not.
W.A. Gibbon
Subscribed and sworn to before me this tenth say of December A.D. 1886.
S.C. Hyde
Notary Public
Clerk
