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These legal documents relate to the case of the United States vs. Walter B. Brocket for assault with intent to kill. Brocket was accused of attacking and stabbing Calvin Bailey in the shoulder with a Bowie knife on the night of September 2, 1857 in front of a saloon in Lecompton, Kansas Territory. Samuel Ford was also implicated in the attack. Brocket was indicted for the crime during the spring court term of 1858 by the U. S. District Court of the Kansas Territory, Second District. Brocket was a proslavery supporter and Bailey supported the free state cause.
Date: September 3, 1857 - February 28, 1859
Item Number: 444814
Call Number: Kansas Territory Criminal Case Files, Box 5, Folder 34
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 444814
Collections - State Archives - U. S. District Court of Kansas (Kansas Territory) - Criminal Case Files
Date - 1854-1860 - 1857
Date - 1854-1860 - 1858
Date - 1854-1860 - 1859
Government and Politics - Crime and Punishment - Crime - Assault and battery
Government and Politics - Crime and Punishment - Crime - Intention (Kill)
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Courts - United States District Courts
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Antislavery - Abolition
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Pro-Slavery
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Courts - Second Judicial District
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Political parties
Military - Wars - Bleeding Kansas
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Case file
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Record, Judicial
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Summons
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Warrant
Places - Cities and towns - Lecompton
Places - Counties - Douglas
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Government records - Case files
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Legal documents
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/444814