Ernest Evans

Death by Force

Ernest Evans, a male deputy with the Eureka County Sheriff’s Office, was killed in the line of duty on October 17, 1907, after responding to a disturbance at the railroad depot in Palisade, a community in Eureka County, Nevada. Called to intervene when men were forcing a woman toward a departing train, he ordered them to stop; one of the men drew a pistol and shot him, mortally wounding him at the station. He had served with the sheriff’s office for two years.

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Deputy Sheriff Ernest Evans