Warsaw Wignal reports that the date of June 19, 1844 was set for citizens to assemble and enact the planned vigilante justice.
The Warsaw Signal, June 14, 1844
Fryday 8 o’clock. p.m. We are informed by gentlemen direct from Carthage that the citizens are ordered to assemble at their various places of rendezvous on Wednesday next [June 19].
A genteman from Nauvoo, who arrived in Carthage to-day, reports that about 200 persons, including nearly all Joe's enemies in Nauvoo, have left the city, with all their movables—being in fear of their lives.
Preparations are making throughout the county, for the comming contest.