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Updated: June 25, 2025

"He worked up the Caffey case like a professional." Ben Caffey's brother had been hanged in Wisconsin, in the region of the lead mines, ten years before. He was innocent of the crime charged, and Ben had vowed vengeance on the jury. All twelve of the jurors, though scattered over the country from New Orleans to the cañon of the Middle Yuba, had met violent deaths.

Angelo Hall - Forty-one Thieves: A Tale of California