By Pat Atchison
The history of Prescott is enriched with many half-truths and errors that make interesting reading but which distort the truth. James Fleming Parker was the last person hanged in a legal public hanging in Prescott. Wrong! All the elements necessary to make a good story were included in The Parker case: cattle rustling; train robbery; the Thompson Gang; a jailbreak; a murder; horse stealing; and a hot pursuit by the well-known sheriff, George Ruffner. However, his hanging on June 3, 1898, was not the last in Prescott.
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