Show TOLL OF LIFE DEMANDED BY STATE THE LAW 1855 Two 1855 Two Indians hanged at Cedar valley thirty miles southwest of Salt Lake City for the murder of William and Warren Weeks sons of Bishop Allen Weeks August 8 1854 1859 Thomas 1859 Thomas H Ferguson hanged October 28 a block east of the old observation tower on the n north rth bench for the murder of his employer Alexander Carpenter September 17 1859 1861 William 1861 William Cockroft shot in the county courthouse inclosure Salt Lake City September 21 for the murder of Robert Kobert Brown 1862 Jason 1862 Jason Luce shot in this city for killing his friend on Main street 1862 A 1862 A man was shot in the county jail yard at Tooele for murd murder r. r 1869 Chauncey 1869 Chauncey WV W. Millard shot in the Provo City jail yard January 26 for the willful murder murder mur- mur f der of a stranger riding in a wagon along the west side of Utah lake He shot his the fun of the thing 1877 John 1877 John D. D Lee Le shot March 23 at the scene of tile the Mountain Meadows massacre for his part in that awful crime 1878 Wallace 1878 Wallace Wilkerson shot in the county jail yard at Provo May 15 for the murder of ofa a stockman named Baxter on the shores of Utah lake 1887 1887 Fred Hopt shot August 11 at the state penitentiary seven years after he lie had murdered 1 John F. F Turner son of the Utah county sheriff His crime was committed July 3 1880 1 I 1894 1 Enoch Davis was shot in Dry Hollow canyon near Lehi September 14 for wife murder V 1896 Charles Charles Thiede was hanged August 7 in the county jail inclosure in Salt Salt- Salt Lake Lake Lake- City i for having murdered his wife at Murray 1896 Patrick 1896 Patrick Coughlin shot December 15 three miles north of Woodruff of-Woodruff Rich ilich county for forthe forthe the murder of Marshal ex-Marshal Dawes of Wyoming and Constable Stagg- Stagg Stagg-of Stagg of E Echo Summit state 1903 Peter 1903 Peter shot at the state penitentiary November 20 for the murder of James R. R Hay December 16 1901 at Forest Dale Frank 1904 Frank Rose shot 22 at the state for the 1904 P. P April penitentiary murder of his wife in n Salt Lake U |