Mural Info
Artist: Anton Refregier
Location: Mission and Spear, South of Market
Current state: Available
Photo by: SF Mural Arts
Taken on: 4-Feb-2012
Views: 3647
Panel #17. Vigilance committees formed during the 1850's in San Francisco to counteract excessive criminality and a weak city government. These committees handed down verdicts on their own terms Vigilante justice was also popular in mining towns. This panel depicts vigilante actions in 1856 that resulted from the murder of newspaper editor James King of William by county supervisor James P.Casey. Casey was convicted and hung at the same moment King of William was being buried. (text from a plaque on the wall)
