Part 8, Note 30

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Colorado Citizen, December 7, 1871. February 27, 1873; Robert P. Tendick to Edmund J. Davis, December 11, 1871, Edmund J. Davis Records (RG 301), Archives Division, Texas State Library, Austin; Colorado County District Court Records, Criminal Cause File No. 920: State of Texas v. Richard R. Ratcliff; Criminal Cause File No. 921: State of Texas v. John Stafford; Criminal Cause File No. 922: State of Texas v. Robert E. Stafford; Criminal Cause File No. 923: State of Texas v. Benjamin F. Stafford; Criminal Cause File No. 924: State of Texas v. Sumner Townsend; Criminal Cause File No. 949: State of Texas v. John Stafford; Criminal Cause File No. 950: State of Texas v. Benjamin F. Stafford; Criminal Cause File No. 951: State of Texas v. Robert E. Stafford; Criminal Cause File No. 952: State of Texas v. Richard R. Ratcliff; Minute Book E, pp. 305, 306, 320, 321, 329, 483, 484, Minute Book F, p. 113. The shootout occurred on the corner of Milam and Walnut Streets. The Staffords were all brothers of Joseph W. Stafford, who had been murdered near Oakland in May 1870. Tendick, in reporting the incident to the governor, characterized the Staffords as a "lawless band of desperadoes."