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Three Years in California by John D. Borthwick (1857)(LoC) (423 pages)
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Page: of 423
A. VIGILANCE COMMITTEE. BIT
saddles are well adapted for this sort of work, and
the Mexicans are unquestionably splendid horsemen,
though they ride too long for English ideas, the
knee being hardly bent at all.
Two of the Vigilance Committee rode over from
Moquelumne Hill next morning, to get the Padre to
return with them to confess a Mexican whom they
were going to hang that afternoon, for having cut
into a tent and stolen several hundred dollars. I
unfortunately did not know anything about it till it
was go late that had I gone there I should not have
been in time to see the execution: not that I cared
for the mere spectacle of a poor wretch hanging by
the neck, but I was extremely desirous of witnessing
the ceremonies of an execution by Judge Lynch ; and
though I was two or three years cruising about in the
mines, I never had the luck to be present on such an
occasion. I particularly regretted having missed this
one, as, from the accounts I afterwards heard of it, it
must have been well worth seeing.
The Mexican was at first suspected of the robbery,
from his own folly in going the very next morning
to’ several stores, and spending an unusual amount of
money on clothes, revolvers, and so on. When once
suspected, he was seized without ceremony, and on
his person was found a quantity of gold specimens
and coin, along with the purse itself, all of which
were identified by the man who had been robbed.
With such evidence, of course, he was very soon con‘victed, and was sentenced to be hung. On being
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