CALIFORNIA VIGILANTE FOUNDER JAMES KING of WILLIAM SIGNED SAN FRANCISCO STOCK

CALIFORNIA VIGILANTE FOUNDER JAMES KING of WILLIAM SIGNED SAN FRANCISCO STOCK
CALIFORNIA VIGILANTE FOUNDER JAMES KING of WILLIAM SIGNED SAN FRANCISCO STOCK
CALIFORNIA VIGILANTE FOUNDER JAMES KING of WILLIAM SIGNED SAN FRANCISCO STOCK

CALIFORNIA VIGILANTE FOUNDER JAMES KING of WILLIAM SIGNED SAN FRANCISCO STOCK
JAMES KING of WILLIAM. ALSO SIGNED BY SAN FRANCISCO NOTABLES JOHN GEARY + BANKER D. SIGNATURES ARE FREE FROM CANCELLATION MARKS THROUGH THE SIGNATURES AND THERE IS NO INK EROSION. ON MAY 14, 1856 , JAMES KING OF WILLIAM EXPOSED THE CRIMINAL RECORD OF JAMES CASEY, ONE OF THE CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO SUPERVISORS, WHO WAS ALSO AN EX CONVICT OF THE NOTORIOUS SING SING PRISON IN NEW YORK. CASEY SHOT KING THE SAME DAY AND KINGS SUPPORTERS RALLIED IN ANGER. THIS WAS THE CATALYST FOR THE FORMING OF THE SECOND 1856 COMMITTEE OF VIGILANCE IN SAN FRANCISCO. THIS SECOND COMMITTEE DIFFERED FROM THE FIRST IN MANY WAYS. IT FOCUSED MORE ON POLITICAL CORRUPTION AND DIRTY POLITICIANS THAN CIVIL CRIME. ITS NUMBERS CLIMBED AS HIGH AS 7000. LIKE THE FIRST COMMITTEE EACH MEMBER WAS ANONYMOUS AND REFERRED TO ONLY BY NUMBER. THE MOST FAMOUS ACTS OF THE 1856 VIGILANTE COMMITTEE WERE THE EXECUTIONS OF JAMES CASEY AND CHARLES CORA. CORA HAD GUNNED DOWN A U. MARSHAL, BUT BECAUSE HE HAD MANY FRIENDS IN OFFICE IT WAS FEARED THAT THE CORRUPT SHERIFF MIGHT FACILITATE HIS ESCAPE. JAMES KING OF WILLIAM ENCOURAGED THE LYNCHING OF THE SHERIFF SHOULD THIS OCCUR. BOTH CORA AND CASEY WERE FOUND GUILTY BY THE VIGILANTE COMMITTEE IN INFORMAL HEARINGS AND PUBLICLY HANGED. PROBABLY THE FINEST AND RAREST EARLY CALIFORNIA AUTHOGRAPH OF ALL! YOU WILL RECEIVE THE BOND PICTURED HERE. WE KNOW OF NO OTHER AND YES, WE FOLLOW AUCTIONS ASSIDUOUSLY ON TWO CONTINENTS. The item “CALIFORNIA VIGILANTE FOUNDER JAMES KING of WILLIAM SIGNED SAN FRANCISCO STOCK” is in sale since Thursday, September 27, 2018. This item is in the category “Coins & Paper Money\Stocks & Bonds, Scripophily\Government & War Bonds”. The seller is “scripomundo” and is located in Mettlach. This item can be shipped worldwide.
CALIFORNIA VIGILANTE FOUNDER JAMES KING of WILLIAM SIGNED SAN FRANCISCO STOCK