After the armory was raided, Brown was unconscious (Stuart believed he was pretending to be dead), Stuart was the first to expose his identity. Later in the day, Lee asked Stuart to led some into Maryland to confiscate 1500 pikes that Brown had stashed.
The next day, Brown was questioned by Henry A. Wise and others. Stuart was there and asked Brown that after all the killings, burnings, and theft he had committed in Kansas if he did not believe the teachings of the Bible.