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1 Trial of David F. Mayberry for the Murder of Andrew Alger: Before the Rock Co. Circuit Court, Judge Doolittle Presiding, July 10th & 11th, 1855: Containing the Arguments of the Attorneys, and a Full and Correct Account of His Death by a Mob 1855

handle is hein.trials/aagp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DAVID F. MAYBERRY. WHEN a community is thrown into commotion by the commis- sion of a horrid crime, various and conflicting reports are inva- riably put in circulation in relation to the transaction. Such has been the case in relation to the life, crimes, trial and death of DAVID F. MAYBERRY, the perpetrator of the awful murder of ANDREW ALGER. To trace his history at this time is impossible, from the fact that we have so few data except his own statements to the sheriff and his fellow prisoners. His stories about the place of his birth were contradictory, but from all the informa- tion we can obtain, he was a native of Tennessee. At the time of the murder he was thirty years of age. About the time he became of age he joined the Mormons to- gether with his father and mother, and he had a wife and was living at Nauvoo at the time Joseph Smith was killed in prison. After this he left Nauvoo and joined a gang of horse-thieves, was arrested in Illinois and sent to the state prison at Alton seven years for horse stealing. This crime he told the other prisoners he was not guilty of, and it appeared in evidence on the trial that he assigned as a reason for robbing and murdering ALGER, that he was determined to have his pay for the time he had spent

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