Ray Raymond v. Territory of Washington. Exhibit A

 

A

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W.J. Wood
Plunder Store
Fourth Street
OGDEN, UTAH

J. Kennedy Stout
Atty. Law Spokane Falls
Wash. Terr

B

W.J. Wood
Plunder Store,
Fourth Street
OGDEN, UTAH

Ogden Utah July 16, 1886

J. Kennedy Stout
Atty. Law
Spokane Falls
W. Terr

Dear Sir

I am informed that a lady by name of Mrs. Josie Wood Alias Ray Raymond has trial for murder in your city, & that you defendant her I have known her for 15 years & known her parents she is crazy & a woman of unsound mind I was married to her in Arwood[?] Isle, some 14 years ago & I lived with her for 5 or 6 years & have two boys by her although she is now divorce from me & has been for some 8 or 9   years. She would not shoot any one in her right mind she Shurley[?] crazy. I am no friend of hers and do care ito shield[?] murders but I do and I really believe her to be out of her mind.

I am not foreman of the grand jury of the 1st district court of Utah Terr in Session in Ogden and I will sware she is and can be proven as a woman of no sound reason.

Please excuse this I am in a great hurry

yours truly
W.J. Wood

Foreman Grand
Jury Ogden Utah

 

Filed Dec. 15, 1886
D.A. Clement
Clerk