PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF JEROME SHOCHET
EARP, Wyatt S. (1848-1929). Manuscript document signed ("W.S. Earp"), Missouri, 26 July 1870. 4 pages, folio.
细节
EARP, Wyatt S. (1848-1929). Manuscript document signed ("W.S. Earp"), Missouri, 26 July 1870. 4 pages, folio.
[With:] DALTON, Gratton (1861-1892). Document signed, ("Grat Dalton"), 4 January 1890. Oath of Office as Deputy U.S. Marshal for the Western District of Arkansas. 1 page, 4to, official seal in lower left corner.
EARP'S DEPOSITION IN HIS FIRST HOMICIDE CASE AS U.S. MARSHAL AND GRAT DALTON'S OATH AS DEPUTY MARSHAL
In the case of the State of Missouri versus Thomas Row, the defendant was also the deceased. The man who did the killing, a Mr. Brown, claimed Row was an intruder, breaking into Brown's smoke house at 6 o'clock in the morning. Testifying two days after the killing, Earp's deposition describes how he was summoned to the scene immediately after the shooting, and saw Row's body "lying in front of the door dead (Mr. Brown's door)." Brown told Earp that he had hollered at Row "told him to halt and then shot. He said the man fell back after he shot. Mr. Brown told that he was trying to break into his smoke house, the door was lifted off its hinges." Documents signed or written by Earp are very rare.
BEFORE BEING SHOT DEAD ALONG WITH HIS BROTHERS AND FELLOW DALTON GANG MEMBERS IN 1892, Gratton Dalton was also a Deputy U.S. Marshall, in Arkansas. Here is his Oath of Office, promising to "well and truly, without malice or partiality," perform his duties as a lawman. Several of the later members of the "Dalton gang" started out as lawmen, and one brother, Frank, was killed in the line of duty in 1887. The line between lawman and criminal seemed very porous on the American frontier, and soon the Dalton brothers and several friends were robbing trains throughout Kansas, the Oklahoma Territory, and even as far away as California. Their fatal mistake was trying to pull off the simultaneous robbery of two banks in their own hometown of Coffeyville Kansas, in 1892. They were instantly recognized when they rode into town, and then ambushed by vigilantes. Dick Broadwell, Bill Powers, Bob and Gratton Dalton were killed in the shootout, as were four bystanders.
[With:] DALTON, Gratton (1861-1892). Document signed, ("Grat Dalton"), 4 January 1890. Oath of Office as Deputy U.S. Marshal for the Western District of Arkansas. 1 page, 4to, official seal in lower left corner.
EARP'S DEPOSITION IN HIS FIRST HOMICIDE CASE AS U.S. MARSHAL AND GRAT DALTON'S OATH AS DEPUTY MARSHAL
In the case of the State of Missouri versus Thomas Row, the defendant was also the deceased. The man who did the killing, a Mr. Brown, claimed Row was an intruder, breaking into Brown's smoke house at 6 o'clock in the morning. Testifying two days after the killing, Earp's deposition describes how he was summoned to the scene immediately after the shooting, and saw Row's body "lying in front of the door dead (Mr. Brown's door)." Brown told Earp that he had hollered at Row "told him to halt and then shot. He said the man fell back after he shot. Mr. Brown told that he was trying to break into his smoke house, the door was lifted off its hinges." Documents signed or written by Earp are very rare.
BEFORE BEING SHOT DEAD ALONG WITH HIS BROTHERS AND FELLOW DALTON GANG MEMBERS IN 1892, Gratton Dalton was also a Deputy U.S. Marshall, in Arkansas. Here is his Oath of Office, promising to "well and truly, without malice or partiality," perform his duties as a lawman. Several of the later members of the "Dalton gang" started out as lawmen, and one brother, Frank, was killed in the line of duty in 1887. The line between lawman and criminal seemed very porous on the American frontier, and soon the Dalton brothers and several friends were robbing trains throughout Kansas, the Oklahoma Territory, and even as far away as California. Their fatal mistake was trying to pull off the simultaneous robbery of two banks in their own hometown of Coffeyville Kansas, in 1892. They were instantly recognized when they rode into town, and then ambushed by vigilantes. Dick Broadwell, Bill Powers, Bob and Gratton Dalton were killed in the shootout, as were four bystanders.