Hangman Maledon was appointed “Lord High Executioner” in 1875 by Judge Parker. Judge Parker passed the death sentence on 168 men and 4 women of whom 88 (all men) were executed. In this article it states Maledon executed 60 men and shot another 5 men who tried to escape. Maledon was paid $100 for every man he executed. Judge Parker ordered gallows to be built that could accommodate 12 men at the same time. On September 3, 1875 Maledon executed 6 men including Sam Fooy, a half-bred who had killer of a school teacher during a robbery; Smoker Mankiller, a Cherokee; Edmund Campbell, a black farmer found guilty of killing a Native American; James H. Moore, a horse-thief, Daniel Evans, who had murdered a man for his boots and John Wittington,