OFFICER:  H. H. VINSON

DEPARTMENT:  Carbon County Sheriff's Office

DATE OF INCIDENT:   August 19, 1878 

DETAILS:  Deputy Vinson was shot and killed in Big Canyon, on Rattlesnake Creek near Elk Mountain, by members of an outlaw gang that had attempted to rob a Union Pacific train.  "Big Nose" George Parrott, a member of the gang was caught nearly two years later.  After being returned to Rawlins, Parrott attempted to escape from jail.  He was apprehended and a group of Rawlins' citizens lynched him on Front Street at the present location of the Union Pacific Depot.