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Hangman's tree, Maysville, Colorado
Arthur Lakes Library Colorado Digitization Project Russell L. and Lyn Wood Mining History Archive
Arthur Lakes Library
Colorado Digitization Project
Russell L. and Lyn Wood Mining History Archive
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1940?-1949?
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A prospector and his burro at the hanging tree near Maysville, Colorado (image of prospector and burro pasted into photograph; hanged men drawn into photograph). The caption on photograph NMHFM-231 identifies the prospector as Frank Gimlet (aka Frank E. Gimlett), the hermit of Arbor Villa (i.e. Arbourville). This is a representation of a double hanging held on the site in 1883. Dennis Haggerty and Henry Dowling robbed James Lynn of $32.00 and a silver watch and left him for dead. Haggerty and Dowling were captured a short time later in Maysville and identified by Lynn before he did die. A mob of masked men broke into the jail, took the prisoners to a pine tree behind the church, and hanged them.
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