Pictorial Letter Sheet of lawful execution
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Title: Execution of Jose Forner, Dec. 10, 1852. On Russian Hill San Francisco, for the Murder of Jose Rodriguez
Place Published: San Francisco
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Date Published: [c.1852]
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Title: Execution of Jose Forner, Dec. 10, 1852. On Russian Hill San Francisco, for the Murder of Jose Rodriguez
Place Published: San Francisco
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Date Published: [c.1852]
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Lithograph illustration, 17.5x24.5 cm (6¾x9½"), on a single sheet measuring 20.5x25 cm (8x9¾"), gray wove paper.
Body dangling from a scaffold, surrounded by armed militia and a multitude of people. Bay, with ships, in background. Bancroft records the event but identifies the hanged man as José Farmi (VII, p. 215). Peters, California on Stone, p.133: "The Huntington Library catalogue notes this as 'the first capital execution under sentence of a lawful tribunal in the County of San Francisco.'" Baird 72; Clifford 64.
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Near fine, though the conjugate blank is not present.
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Pictorial Letter Sheet of lawful execution
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