Account of the causes and development of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1856, [ca. 1856].

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Account of the causes and development of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1856, [ca. 1856].

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AM with corrections in an unidentifed hand describing the development of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1856 and the circumstances leading up to the murder of James King, editor of the San Francisco Evening Bulletin, and the subsequent hanging of his murderer James P. Casey by the vigilantes. The manuscript is bound with grommets on the top, and the number 124324 is stamped at the top of the first page and on the bottom of the last. Miscellaneous accounting notes appear on verso in pencil and ink.

1 item ([20] p.) ; 38 x 11 cm.

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San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1856

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The San Francisco Committees of Vigilance of 1851 and 1856 were formed when crime became widespread in the city of San Francisco in the wake of the Gold Rush. In 1856, the murder of James King of William sparked the reactivation of vigilante activities. King, a San Francisco newspaper editor, was shot by James. P. Casey, a corrupt official, after King attacked Casey in the columns of his paper. Immediately 10,000 men hastened to join the vigilantes, and William T. Coleman was again chosen as lea...

King, James, 1822-1856

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Casey, James P. d.1856.

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