could be witnessed to great advantage from a number of places in town, and at each there assembled a crowd of eager spectators. Daly reportedly took a swig of whiskey while McDowell professed the innocence of Masterson and Buckley, but at 1:30 p.m. a little cannon that stood beside the gallows was fired, the rope was cut, and the four men disappeared through the trap-door and soon hung lifeless, a terrible testament to the vengeance of an outraged community. This action so angered Governor James W. Nye that two days later he headed for Aurora with a Provost Marshal Van Bokkelen and United States Marshal Wasson and was going to call out the troops from Fort Churchill to put down the vigilantes. After the Marshal looked into the facts no action was taken against the "Citizen Safety Committee" and things were quiet at last. Daly had two houses and two or three lots in town at time of his hanging, including a cabin on the west side of Court St. south of Pine. Resources Sifakis, Carl. Encyclopedia of American Crime, New York, Facts on File Inc., 1982 McGrath, Roger D. Gunfighters, Highwaymen, and Vigilantes: Violence on the Frontier., University of California Press, Mar 23, 1987 Thompson & West. History of Nevada 1881, With Illustrations And Biographical Sketches Of Its Prominent Men And Pioneers, pp. 401–425] Outlaws of the American Old West 1839 births 1864 deaths