San Francisco Vigilance Committee of '56
An edition of San Francisco Vigilance Committee of '56 (1883)
With Some Interesting Sketches of Events Succeeding 1846
By Frank Meriweather Smith
Publish Date
2021
Publisher
Creative Media Partners, LLC
Language
eng
Pages
83
Description:
Brief history of San Francisco and its response to lawless conditions. In 1851, the citizens formed a Vigilance Committee to rid the city of criminals. It tried and hung murderers. Again in 1856, stimulated by the murder of James King of William, citizens formed another Vigilance Committee. This Committee tried and hung murders, forced many crimiinals to leave, and confronted state authority before disbanding.