End of Watch:
October 14, 1902
Age: 28
Scofield Police Department
Homicide: Pistol-whipping
Shortly before midnight, Saturday, October 5, 1902, Scofield City Marshal Hugh Hunter responded to the location of a loud party.
When Marshal Hunter advised the participants to cease making a disturbance his life was threatened. The marshal returned a second time an hour later and was disarmed in a physical altercation with the partiers. After deputizing half a dozen men, including Thomas Nalley, Marshal Hunter returned to the residence and made several arrests. However, a fight with the owner of the home resulted in Deputy Marshal Nalley suffering a severe pistol-whipping by the owner, who was subsequently shot and killed by another posse member. Deputy Marshal Nalley was transported to a Salt Lake City hospital by train. He died there on October 14 and was buried in the Scofield Cemetery. Deputy Marshal Nalley was single.
The bronze memorial name plaque of Deputy Marshal Thomas Nalley is sponsored by the Naples Police Department.