Pillow, Trial of the Shakers: For an Attempt to Restrain the Wife and Three Children of William H. Pillow: An Exposure of their Deceptions, and her Final Release, by a Writ of Habeas Corpus (Lowell, MA: extracted from The True Wesleyan, October 1847)

The trial of which our readers have been already informed, pending between our friend P. ¹ and the Shakers, was resumed on Thursday of last week, in the Court House at Hudson, ² before Judge Hogeboom. Killean Miller and Theodore Miller, Esqs., were engaged as counsel by P. and Henry Hogeboom and C. L. Monell, Esqs., were engaged as counsel for the Shakers. As the trial was of a novel and even extraordinary character, and is calculated to reflect much light upon the institution of Shakerism, and the conduct of Shakers, we deem it a duty we owe to the public to make a full report of the proceedings. It is probable that many of our readers may not be interested in the documents, but for the sake of many others who will be glad to read the whole proceeding, and for the purpose of presenting a connected chain, we give the writ and pleadings in the case. It should be remarked that two writs of habeas corpus were sued out, one to bring up the body of Ann, the wife of P., and the other to bring up his three children. ³