San Francisco Vigilance Committee of '56
Subtitle: with some interesting sketches of events succeeding 1846
By: edited by Frank Meriweather Smith.
Contributors: Smith, Frank Meriweather, d. 1884.
Series: 19th-century legal treatises -- no. 57615.
Publisher: Barry, Baird
Published: 1883
Place of publication: San Francisco, Cal
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 83
Subjects: San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1856; San Francisco (Calif.) -- History
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.
Notes: Microfiche. Woodbridge, Conn. : Research Publications, 1991. 1 microfiche. (19th-century legal treatises ; no. 57615)