"""...There I found Captain J.K. Limerick in command of a company of volunteers. It seems he had been sent there by General Lane after the fight of Battle Creek on account of the murder of some Indians there. Bates and some others had induced a small party of peaceable Indians who belonged in that vincinity to enter to an engagement to remain at peace woth the whites during the war, which was going on at some distance from them. By way of ratification they invited them to partake of a feast in an unoccupied log house just across the road from the Bates House. While the unarmed Indians were partaking of the proffered hospitality, the door was suddenly fastened and they were shot down by their treacherous white hosts. Nearby I was shown a large hole which the bodies of these murdered Indians had been unceremoniously tumbled..."""

-- Judge Matthew P Deady