TILGHMAN, William (1854-1924), Western lawman, friend of Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson. Document signed as a Deputy U.S. Marshal, Guthrie, Oklahoma, 12 March 1897, countersigned by other officials. 1 page, folio. Tilghman certifies that he transported one John Dossett, stating that he is to be imprisoned in the Federal penitentiary at Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory, on an indictment for murder. Tilghman met his death many years later transporting another prisoner to jail. After retiring as police chief of Oklahoma City in 1914, he agreed to come out of retirement to take the sheriff's job in Cromwell, Oklahoma in 1924. A drunken prohibition officer whom Tilghman was escorting overpowered the 70-year old lawman and shot him dead. Autographs of Tilghman, and those of all the legendary western lawmen, are rare, especially signatures related to their official duties.