Jarbidge, Nevada

Jarbidge Jail

Built after the town was removed from the U.S. forest by a 1911 presidential proclamation it replaced the constable's home or Forest Service cabin to restrain rowdy miners and hold suspects for arrival of a sheriff's deputy. A colorful story tells of a burly miner frequently using the bunk to raise the roof to slip out and return to the saloon, climbing back in his cell before morning. Most noted prsoner was Ben Kuhl who robbed the Rogerson-Jarbidge stage in December 1916 killing Fred Searcy the driver, the last mail coach robbery in the U.S. and first conviction based on a bloody palm print. It was last used about 1945.