WILLIAM M. "BILL" TILGHMAN - DOCUMENT SIGNED 06/19/1890 CO-SIGNED BY: NEAL BROWN - HFSID 257991

WILLIAM "BILL" TILGHMAN, JR. Typed DS: "Wm Tilghman Jr", 1p, 8x13. Territory of Oklahoma, 1890 June 19. In full: "In the District Court of the First Judicial District of the Territory of Oklahoma. George Anderson, Plaintiff vs William Tilghman and Neal Brown Defendants. We William Tilghman and Neal Brown as principals and Morris Collar + D L Malone as sureties, acknowledge ourselves held and firmly bound unto George Anderson his heirs personal representatives and assigns in the sum of Five Hundred and Twenty Dollars for the payment of which well and truly to be made we bind ourselves our heirs personal representatives and assigns jointly and severally firmly by these presents. The condition of the foregoing obligation is such that whereas on the 18th day of June 1890 the plaintiff in the above entitled action in a certain action brought by him against the said William Tilghman and Neal Brown procured an order of an attachment therein against the property of the said William Tilghman and Neal Brown directed to the sheriff of said First County and whereas the said sheriff in pursuance of said order of attachment has levied upon certain property of said defendants which has been duly appraised at the sum of Two Hundred and Sixty Dollars, a description of which property will be duly attached to the inventory upon the return made by the sheriff in the above entitled action. Now therefore if the said property or its appraised value in money shall be forth coming to answer the judgment of the court in the said action then this obligation to be void: otherwise to remain in full force and effect." Also signed: "Neal Brown", "Morris Collar" and "D. L. Malone". Malone and Collar have also signed a statement at the bottom, which has been witnessed by a Justice of the Peace. Docketed (unknown hand) on verso. Bill Tilghman (1854-1924) was appointed Marshall of Dodge City, Kansas, in 1884 and wore a badge made of two $20 gold pieces. He left Kansas and joined in on the Oklahoma land rush of 1889, staking a claim in Guthrie, Oklahoma, where he lived for the rest of his life. Tilghman was appointed Deputy U.S. Marshall in 1892. He spent the next 20 years cleaning up the area with two other lawmen, Chris Madsen and Heck Thomas. They captured dozens of outlaws and tracked down the infamous Bill Doolin and his gang, the "Oklahombres". Tilghman served in the Oklahoma State Senate (1910-1911) and became the head of the Oklahoma Police Force in 1911, retiring in 1922. Two years later, he was persuaded by the citizens of Cromwell, Oklahoma to become their City Marshal. On November 1, 1924, as Tilghman led Wiley Lynn, an unruly drunken probation officer to jail, Lynn pulled out a small automatic pistol and killed the 70-year-old former Marshal of Dodge City. Lightly creased. Separations at mid-horizontal folds inexpertly repaired with tape on verso, affecting 9 words of typed text. Light show through from ink on verso. 2 file holes at upper blank margin, ¾-inch hole over 2 crossed out words due to chemical reaction of ink. Nicked at upper and lower and upper left blank edges.