Hosea Stout records the raid made on the office of Stiles that led to the Utah War.

Date
Dec 30, 1856
Type
Personal Journal / Diary
Source
Hosea Stout
LDS
Hearsay
Holograph
Direct
Reference

Hosea Stout, diary entry for December 30, 1856. MS 8332, Church History Library

Scribe/Publisher
Hosea Stout
People
Hosea Stout, T. S. Williams, George P. Stiles
Audience
Hosea Stout
Transcription

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.

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