[Hosea Stout Diary] Friday January 9th 1846. Met the guard as usualWe rode below Hibbard on the river as before and wattered our Horses and regulated the guard for the day as was our customI then went to the Lodge and then came home.John Scott was with me.After dinner we returned to the Temple at three to meet the guard as usual
Scott was raising about twenty or thirty men to go to Carthage tomorrow to attend a meeting of the (citizens) of Hancock County to appoint delegates to meet a convention at Springfield to nominate a (Democratic) candidate for governer at the next election next August.
When we came to the Temple some what a considerable number of the guard were assembled and among them was William Hibbard son of the old man Hibbard.He was evidently come as a spy.When I saw him I told Scott that we must "bounce a stone off of his head."to which he agreedwe prepared accordingly & I got an opportunity & hit him on the back of his head which came very near taking his lifeBut few knew any thing about what was the matter he left the ground out of his senses when he came to himself he could not tell what had happened to him &c
Just as the guard was formed a man came to me who said he had lost two horses last night and supposed they had been stolen & was yet in the North part of town and agreed to pay three dollars to the guard if they would search this evening for them which they did by going in companies but did not find the horses.After the companies were then dispersed to search for the horses I met the police & then sent my horse home and went home with Allen J. Stout & he and I went to Thomas Richs and we all three patrolled on the flat untill about Eight and I went home with Allen & Staid all night. â€"
[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]
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