LOT #43021 |
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John Selman Document Signed, El Paso County, Texas, 1893....
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Description
John Selman Document Signed, El Paso County, Texas, 1893. One page, 8.5" x 14", November 20, 1893, El Paso, a one page partly-printed document with docketing on verso, completed in manuscript and signed in black ink being an affidavit for information regarding a criminal complaint against a Dr. Merchand for disturbing the peace. Merchand is accused of "...go[ing] into and near a private house... and did there and then use loud and vociferous and obscene, vulgar and indecent language and did there swear and curse and yell..." Selman has signed at the close; his autograph is crisp and clean.Selman lived on both sides of the law. He not only rustled cattle, robbed, and murdered, but also arrested cattle rustlers, robbers, and murderers. An article was published in the April 5, 1896 El Paso Herald upon the occasion of Selman's final (and fatal) gun battle with U.S. Deputy Marshal George Scarborough. It gives some of his history, in part: "John Selman, the victor of not less than twenty shooting affrays in Texas, the exterminator of "bad men" and the slayer of John Wesley Hardin, is dying tonight with a bullet hole through his body... Selman was raised on the Colorado River in Texas. He was about 58 years old and has lived a stormy life. When not drinking he was as gentle as a child, but he did not know what fear was, and has killed not less than twenty outlaws. He was a dead shot and quick with his gun. He was an old officer in the service. Some years ago he fought a band of cattle thieves in Donna Anna County, New Mexico, killing two and capturing the others, four in all. He killed Bass Outlaw, a deputy United States Marshal, in El Paso a few years ago."
Condition: Fine, lightly toned page with minor stains, reinforced on verso with archival tape, along horizontal folds. Small paper loss at top.
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2009 January Western Americana Signature Auction #6017 (go to Auction Home page)
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January, 2009
23rd-25th
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