[Hosea Stout Diary] Tuesday Jany 20th 1846. This was a very disagreeable morning and the wind & snow drove furiously from the North East.I met the guard & paraded them in the Temple cellar on foot and regulated the guard for the day & dismissed them & remained at the temple till one and came homeHunter came with me & took dinner and returned to the guard at three.Paraded in the cellar again and regulated it for the night and was presented with a letter by C. Rogers from Br Franklin R. Tower who had been sent as a Spy to Warsawit Stated in Substance that They were forming Secret Societys to make arraingements to make a Simultanius attact on Nauvoo and the Temple both by land and water and at the Same time to have the officers to attempt the arrest of Some of the 12 & others.That they had Spies here who gave them news daily and that he had reason to believe that one of the guard was a Spy.That my life was to be taken by them if it could be & also the Twelve.that he was a member of their lodges and yet
unsuspected.
I took the letter & read it to Brigham Young and informed him of the circumstances relative thereto from there I came home a little after dark the driving snow still falling fast from the North East.and staid awhile & went to the Temple and staid all night
[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]
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