two o'clock before
Standing over the body John Brown spoke to one of his men . `` The horses , saddles and bridles from the stable -- quick ! '' The huntsman hurried to the stable and took Wilkinson 's horse . It was two o'clock before they reached the home of James Harris on the other side of the Pottawattomie . Harris lived on the highway and kept a rude frontier boarding place where travelers stopped for the night . With him lived Dutch Henry Sherman and his brother , William . Brown had no difficulty in entering this humble one-room house .