COLLECTION NAME:
Wyoming State Archives WPA Federal Writers Project Files
Record
Title:
Wyoming WPA Subject File, Crimes and criminals newspaper transcriptions - "Big Nose George", no published source, n.d.
Collection Name:
WPA Collection
Collection Number:
WPA Subject 56b Crimes and criminals general
Item Description:
Crimes and criminals newspaper transcriptions - "Big Nose George", no published source, n.d.
Date:
1876
Notes:
Osborne, Ex-Governor John E. (Wyo. Terr.)
Notes:
. . . removed the breast skin, tanned it & turned it into a pair of shoes
Notes:
the physician also severed Parrott's head with which he made a paster mould
Notes:
Brown, Eric - Union Pacific Railroad (UPRR) section foreman
Notes:
detected missing section of track rail laying in brush near Rawlins (Carbon Co.)
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repaired track - reported payroll robbery attempt to Rankin, Sheriff Robert
Notes:
Vincent, Tip & Whittefield - deputies sent in pursuit of suspects
Notes:
suspects: Parrott, George "Big Nose"; Dutch Charley, Wan, Sim & Reed Tom
Notes:
Wan, Sim & Reed, Tom - believed to be Younger brothers: James & Coleman
Notes:
bodies of deputies Vincent & Whittefield found in Elk Mountains (Carbon Co.)
Notes:
Dutch Charley arrested & lynched at Dana Station (Carbon Co.)
Notes:
Big Nose George - captured in Montana - placed in Carbon Co. Jail at Rawlins (Wyo.)
Notes:
admitted to removing railroad track section as well as killing Rankin's two deputies
Notes:
attempted escape - Rankin, Sheriff assaulted - his wife held Big Nose at bay till help arrived
Notes:
mob soon arrived & lynched Big Nose George from telephone pole
Notes:
Osborne, Dr. - physician at Rawlins (Carbon Co.) - pronounced Big Nose to stil. be alive
Notes:
mob members successfully hanged Big Nose on their second attempt
Notes:
Daley, Coroner Wm. - turned Parrott's body over to Dr. Osborne . . .
Filename:
WPA Sub 56B CRIMES AND CRIMINALS General.pdf
Type:
Text