Hosea Stout records the raid made on the office of Stiles that led to the Utah War.
Hosea Stout, diary entry for December 30, 1856. MS 8332, Church History Library
Last night the Law library of Judge Stiles & T.S. Williams was broken open and the books and papers thereof taken away. A privy near by was filled with books a few thousand shingles and laths added and the concern set on fire and consumed. Six transit Lex non Scripti.