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SF Vigilance Committee hangs a Sydney Duck
SF Vigilance Committee hangs a Sydney Duck
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Title: The First Trial & Execution in S. Francisco on the Night of 10th of June at 2 O'Clock
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:Justh, Quirot & Co.
Date Published: [before June 12, 1851]
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Lithograph illustration, 17.5x24.5 cm (6¾x9½"), on a double sheet measuring 20.8x29.2 cm (8¾x11½"), blue or gray wove paper.

First-hand reporting on the "trial" and hanging of John Jenkins, sketched and published in San Francisco. Jenkins was one of the notorious Sydney Ducks, Australian ex-convicts and escaped convicts who came to California during the Gold Rush. The Sydney Ducks were one of the targets of the actions of the First Vigilance Committee. Baird 79; Peters, California on Stone, p. 133 & Plate 66.

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SF Vigilance Committee hangs a Sydney Duck

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