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But all the laurels were not with the Committee. On Thursday morning, August 21, Sheriff Hayes surprised Vigilante Headquarters at dawn and captured Samuel Whitaker and Robert McKenzie both convicted of murder by the Committee and sentenced to hang. The City Government was much elated but the victory was short.
The streams of miners turned back toward the space around the scaffold where the vigilantes stood grouped, and there rose a subdued roar of excited voices. Many small groups of men conversed together, until the vigilante leader brought all to attention by addressing the populace in general. Joan could not hear what he said and had no wish to hear.
"And here's written orders," and he displayed a paper signed by the well-known "33, Secretary," and bearing the Vigilante seal of the open eye. "All right," acquiesced Durkee. "Now, you mangy hounds, you've got just about twenty-eight seconds to make yourselves as scarce as your virtues. Scat!"
The Moro seemed astonished, but appreciated the reason, and had his first lesson in the apothegmatic saying that all is not gold which glitters. Later the eagle was given to the Bongao vigilante, who pinned it to the front of his fez, for was he not a protector of the peace under the great American government? To one side of Tampakan stood a plot of ground used as a cemetery.
Cora, in his cell, played solitaire and Casey made pretense of reading a book. Presently Scannell entered the room where Casey sat; it was not a cell nor had the door been locked since the withdrawal of the Vigilante guard. Casey looked up quickly. "What's the latest news from King?" "He's dying, so they say," retorted Scannell. "Dave," it was almost a whisper. "You've been to Broderick?
I thought you got them in time to avoid all this." Struve laughed a bit, eying her curiously. "Does Uncle Arthur know about this?" she continued. "No, we don't let him know anything more than necessary; he's not a strong man." "Yes, yes. He's not well." Again the lawyer smiled. "Who is behind this Vigilante movement?" "We think it is Glenister and his New Mexican bandit partner.
The first news of the strikes brought over the advance guard of the roughs who had been running the other camps; and, as soon as these were unmasked by acts of their own, the little advance guard of civilization shot one of them, Arnett, and hung two others, Jernigan and Spillman. This was the real beginning of a permanent vigilante force in Montana.
There were in California three distinct Vigilante movements, those of 1849, 1851, and 1856, the earliest applying rather to the outlying mining camps than to the city of San Francisco. In 1851, seeing that the courts made no attempt to punish criminals, a committee was formed which did much toward enforcing respect for the principles of justice, if not of law.
After Oro Fino was worked out as a placer field, the prospectors located other grounds east of the Salmon River range, at Elk City and Florence, and soon Lewiston was forsaken, all the population trooping off over the mountains to the new fields. This broke up the vigilante movement in its infancy, and gave Plummer a longer lease of life for his plans.
Thus, as in the case of Sturdevant, lynch law put an effectual end to outlawry that the law itself could not control. The Vigilantes of California The Greatest Vigilante Movement of the World History of the California "Stranglers" and Their Methods. The world will never see another California. Great gold stampedes there may be, but under conditions far different from those of 1849.
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