of the children. Marcus Whitman and his wife treated both the white settlers and the Cayuse who came to them for medical attention, but the Cayuse had become increasingly wary of trusting the Whitmans for medical attention at this point. Henry Spalding, another missionary who worked closely with Whitman, and was with him the day before he died, claimed that Catholic priests were spreading rumors among the Cayuse people that Whitman was deliberately spreading diseases to them. He also testified on behalf of the five Cayuse men who were eventually hanged for Whitman's death at their trial, saying that the Cayuse had warned Whitman that the consequences for being a fake healer were death, and that they would have to kill him if he remained there, but he had chosen to disregard their warning. Catherine Sager also recorded a fight between a man she said was named Tam-a-Has and Marcus Whitman in which Tam-a-Has struck Whitman with a wooden club and Whitman struck Tam-a-Has with a metal rod. In November of 1847, a Cayuse man named Stickas warned Marcus Whitman that Joe Lewis was convincing many of the Cayuse people that Whitman was actively poisoning them. Catherine Sager also believed that a French man named Joseph Stanfield who was an assistant to Doctor Whitman participated in spreading these stories, and that Joe Lewis and Joseph Stanfield motive for doing this was that they were conspiring to plunder the mission of the considerable resources that had been donated to it by then. On November 29, 1847, Joe Lewis along with a group of Cayuse men attacked the settlement at Waiilatpu. While the men who had been working outside were being attacked, Narcissa Whitman took frequent quick looks out the door, and according to Catherine Sager, "At such times she would exclaim: 'Oh, that Jo Lewis is doing it all!'". Catherine Sager also recorded witnessing Joe Lewis dragging the children at the mission out of hiding to be lined up and shot, and the Cayuse chief deciding to spare them instead, with that chief giving a speech again that night in favor of sparing the lives of the women and children. She described most of the deaths she witnessed as having been done by bullets without identifying who shot those bullets, she said she saw a teacher named Luke Saunders taken captive at knife point by two Cayuse men, and said she