Here are some new itmes on Moonlight:

From the Atchison newspaper "The Globe" Nov 11, 1881

"Colonel D. R. Anthony, of the Leavenworth Times, was in the city yesterday, and during a brief call at this office we were pained to notice that he wore a black eye. By reference to back files of the Leavenworth papers we found that it was given him by Tom Moonlight. Anthony made a speech lately in which he said that although Moonlight was demanding liberty fro the people, he had refused his wife permission to attend the Catholic church, and that she was compelled to baptize her children without his knowledge. For this Moonlight hit Anthony, although Anthony has been a helpless cripple ever since he was shot by Embry. (the Embry story is a wild one) Anthony always has a black eye, we should think he would either quit making people mad, or carry a pistol."

"The Daily Globe" Atchison Dec 6, 1881

"Tom Moonlight is probably the only "literary feller" who ever ran for the office of Sheriff. Candidates for Sheriff usually go more for grit and muscle than upon any literary genius they possess. They generally chew plug tobacco, drimk lots of whiskey without geting drunk and talk slang volubly. They do not understand how to use a pen except in filling out blank subpoenas and warrants, or something of that kind. But Tom Moonlight was not one of this kind. Immediately after his defeat for Sheriff, he sat down and wrote an interesting historical sketch for the Leavenworth Standard and he did it without misspelling a word or making a grammatical error. We would like to see him elected. We would like to have seen what kind of a Sheriff a literary feller would make."

"The Globe" Nov 11, 1881

"There is no doubt in our minds but what Col. Tom Moonlight, of Leavenworth, would have been elected sheriff if he had not once upon a time said "D-n the Irish." He only lacked four [votes] of having a majority."