[Drawing depicting the gallows on which the second Vigilance Committee carried out its last public execution on July, 29, 1856]

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Local identifier: AAF-0941
Title: [Drawing depicting the gallows on which the second Vigilance Committee carried out its last public execution on July, 29, 1856]
Date: [1948 Sept. 24]
Issuance: monographic
Collection: San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection
Type of Resource: still image
Physical Description: 1 photographic print : b&w ; 7 x 9 in.
Form: graphic
Use and Reproduction: Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library.
Note: Folder: Line Drawings-S.F. Vigilantes
Newscopy: "HANGINGS in downtown San Francisco were a frequent sight when California was a new-born state. The sketch above shows the gallows on which the second Vigilance Committee carried out its last execution -- a double hanging July 29, 1856, in the center of Davis-st, near Sacramento-st. The men executed were Joseph Heatheringon, who shot and killeda doctor, and a man listed only as Brace, habitual criminal and kiler. Heatherington attempted to deliver a speech from the scaffold, only to be interrupted by Brace, who screamed blasphemously until the trap under the pair's feet was sprung."
Written on back: "Execution of Heatherington and Brace."
Genre: Drawings.
LCSH Subjects: Vigilantes--California--San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Bibliographic Number: .b10400278
Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12352/islandora:154557