Most of Fleming Parker’s outlawry was rustling livestock but during a jailbreak he shot and killed a popular attorney in Prescott. Yavapai Sheriff George Ruffner caught up with him and brought him in to stand trial where he was sentenced to hang. Parker and the sheriff had cowboyed together in their younger days but now it was the lawman’s duty to hang his old friend. Ruffner wanted all condemned men hanged at the territorial prison at Yuma and had been had been lobbying for some time for la
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