Gerlach Constable

• Scott Butler:
  • 1915: Shootout at Hualipi Flats.
  • 1919-1920: Appendix to Journals of Senate and Assembly of the Thirtieth Session of the Legislature of Nevada, Volume 30, Part 1
  • Reno Gazette Journal, "Mexican Prisoner Shoots Constable," November 29, 1920. Scott Butler shot in the leg on a train after arresting Manuel Hernandez at Jungo.
  • Owned the building that housed the Cactus Club that burned in 1925.
• Roy Felts defeated R. H. Murdock, incumbent. The vote was 26 to 11. Source: Reno Evening Gazette, "Candidates Trip Made Interesting by Crazy Man," October 1, 1920, p. 11.
• Henry J. Hughes Constable for 10 years at some point.
  • In 1926, during the filming of The Winning of Barbara Worth, "Gerlach's constable, Henry Hughes, had become a popular figure with the California visitors, ..." (Source: http://www.silentsaregolden.com/articles/barbaraworthmakingof.html)
• Russell (Shorty) Taylor was a Gerlach constable in the late 1950's and early 1960's.
• Thomas J. "Cisco" Ashenbrenner
  • "Brush Fire Burns in Empire Area," Nevada State Journal, July 30, 1954. Fire near Parker Ranch burns 40 acres. Reported by Deputy Cisco Ashenbrenner at Gerlach.
• Peggy Trego, "The 40 Wilderness Miles North of Gerlach, Nevada," Desert Magazine, November, 1960. "Sheriff Cisco Aschenbrenner and Constable. Shorty Taylor, who are the only law in these parts. Cisco and Shorty earn their wages; Gerlach can be rough and"

See Also

• Gerlach Justice of the Peace
• Washoe County Sheriff’s Office

References

• "Statutes of the State of Nevada," February 1, 1911. $900/year for the Gerlach Justice of the Peace and the Constable. Also, fees associated with civil cases.
• "On receipt of word from the Gerlach constable that if a jail was not soon built he would arrive in Reno some day with at least 21 hoboes, and that he was forced to handcuff the tramps and tie them to trees, no other shelter being provided, the county commissioners decided to erect a new jail there" "History of Washoe County," Reno Evening Gazette, July 31, 1911. Steel cells for the new Gerlach jail arrived July 31, 1911.
• San Francisco Chronicle, "Unique Jail of New Railroad Town to go," Aug. 6, 1911 p. 46. A description of Gerlach's first jail, which was a chains attached to a telephone pole.