Broadside, Cowardly assassination: Lecompton Union Extra! Webb, Thomas H. (Hopkins) , 1801-1866 (Creator) This broadside, a special report of the Weekly Lecompton Union newspaper, recounted the assassination of William T. Sherrard, which had occurred earlier that same day. Sherrard had been appointed Sheriff of Douglas County by the County Board of Commissoners after the resignation of Samuel J. Jones. Sherrard's appointment was not supported by Governor Geary, who allegedly made slanderous remarks on Sherrard's character. The broadside report supposed, since Sherrard was decidely a proslavery man, that free state Legislators, among other freestateman, had plotted against him on behalf of Geary, which lead to Sherrard's death at the hand of J.A.W. Jones. This item was part of Territorial Kansas Online (TKO# 102887). TKO topic guide: Border Disputes and Warfare>Border Ruffians and Jayhawkers>Pro-slavery perspective 1857 StillImage electronic image/tiff ku-kansascollection:2816 https://digital.lib.ku.edu/ku-kansascollection/2816 RH VLT H6 This work is free of known copyright restrictions.