Historical Perspectives: The hanging of Dr. Vincent

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Monday, May. 28, 2012 | 10:39 PM Modified Tue, May 29, 2012 09:49 AM

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People at the bus stop on M Street at Courthouse Park might be surprised to know that just over their shoulders stood the gallows where, nearly 120 years ago, Fresno County carried out its only legal hanging.

The executed: Dr. Frank Vincent, a disgraced, drug-addicted, alcoholic physician who murdered his wife, Annie.

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The gallows used to carry out the October 27, 1893, execution of Dr. Frank Vincent.

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Just behind the M Street bus stop at Courthouse Park stood the old Fresno County Jail, built in 1888 and torn down in 1959. It had been the site of the hanging of Dr. Frank Vincent.

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