The last official hanging in Nevada took place outside the north door of the old jail in Nevada.
William Wright, a colored man convicted of murdering his wife with an axe, (seems he didn't like the way she cooked his supper) was executed here on August 10, 1896. A high board fence was built around the scaffold, and tickets issued. The job was botched; death by strangulation came with agonizing slowness. Sheriff Scroghem, who presided was so unnerved, according to his niece, that he had to take to his bed.
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