Before leaving the mouth of the Kansas River, navigational observations are completed, and Collins and Hall are tried and convicted for sneaking whiskey. In the evening, the expedition continues up the Missouri, has another close call with the barge, and encamps near present Riverside, Kansas.
Another Court Martial
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Court Martial Charges
The Court Convened agreeable to order and proceeded to the trial of the Prisoners Viz John Collins Charged “with getting drunk on his post this morning out of whiskey put under his Charge as a Sentinal and for Suffering Hugh Hall to draw whiskey out of the Said Barrel intended for the party”
—William Clark
Plea and Punishment
To this Charge the prisoner plead not guilty.
The Court after mature deliveration on the evidence abduced &c. are of oppinion that the prisoner is Guilty of the Charge exhibited against him, and do therefore Sentence him to recive one hundred Lashes on his bear Back.
—William Clark
Hall’s Plea and Punishment
To this Charge the prisoner [Hugh Hall] “Pleades Guilty.”
The Court find the prisoner guilty and Sentence him to receive fifty Lashes on his bear Back.
—William Clark
Another Close Call
Passed a verry bad place of water, the Sturn of the Boat Struck a moveing Sand & turned within 6 Inches of a large Sawyer, if the Boat had Struck the Sawyer, her Bow must have been Knocked off & in Course She must hav Sunk in the Deep water
—William Clark
Notes
| ↑1 | Originally aired weekdays by Yellowstone Public Radio during the Bicentennial observance of 2003-2006. Narrated by Hal Hansen. Scripts by Whit Hansen and Ed Jacobson. Produced by Leni Holliman. © 2003 by Yellowstone Public Radio. |
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