The tale of the only woman ever legally executed in the
state of Nevada is one of lust and deceit. For reasons unknown, Elizabeth Potts
left her marriage. She left her husband, Josiah, 7 children and the entire
state of Nevada and travelled to California where she met and married another
man, Miles Faucett, a carpenter.
Mr. Faucett learned that his wife was in fact already
married and annulled the marriage. This where is gets weird and history has
faded the details a bit. Elizabeth goes home to her husband and family and Mr.
Faucett follows. He not only follows but he becomes a boarder in the Potts
home.
Is the weird over? Not quite yet. Mr. Faucett buys a local
ranch and moves out but still continues to visit the Potts on the regular.
Elizabeth provides him with bread and laundry services, unusual, to say the
least.
Finally, somebody starts to make some sense in 1888 when Mr.
Faucett tells a friend of his plans to visit the Potts that night to retrieve
some money they owed him. Should they refuse, Mr. Faucett declared his
intentions to reveal Mrs. Potts scandalous double marriage days. He was never
seen again.
The Potts moved from the home a year later and set up house
in Wyoming. Their old house was rented by a family who discovered the rotted,
mutilated corpse of Mr. Faucett one year later. The Potts were simultaneously
arrest and tried for murder.
The Potts were hung together in a double gallows in front of
52 male witnesses. Elizabeth is the only woman legally executed in the state of
Nevada.
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