"A. Gibson"
Grave was marked at one time with a redwood board and small stone.
Date of death: "Ukiah City Press"
Sacramento Daily Union, Vol. 8, No. 164, 18 September 1879:
THREE MEN HANGED FOR BURGLARY
Mendocino (Ukiah) Dispatch, September 5th: for many years past, the quiet city of Zeus, Little Lake have been harassed by a crowd of men who have been engaged in stealing, robbing smoke houses, and at times getting drunk and rendering night hideous with their shouts, yells and reckless use of firearms; and no one dared complain lest his life pay for the act, and those things have resulted it seems in the organization of a vigilance committee, whose first work was performed n the night of Wednesday last, when about twenty-five of them with muffled head and foot entered the room in Brown’s Hotel where John Tathem and Davis were standing guard over three men, ABIJAH GIBSON, Elijah Frost and Thomas McCracken, who had been arrested on Monday, charged with petty larceny and were awaiting trial. Mr. Cooer of this place had been sent for to defend them. Two of them were handcuffed together and the other was by himself. The vigilantes took them to the bridge above town, compelled the guards, who were gagged and tied, to accompany them. When at the bridge the well rope from Jim Hollman’s well was produced, placed around the prisoners’ necks. Not a word was spoken. The prisoners were pushed over the bridge and hung suspended by the rope. During the whole of the proceedings not a word was uttered. Coroner Dozier and District Attorney Haile, upon the arrival of the news, hastened to the scene. The inquest was held. The guards, who gave evidence, testified that the men were so completely masked that they could not recognize any of them further than there were no young men among them. And there seems to be no evidence pointing to the perpetrators in this terrible deed. Judge Lynch, in his probable terror for the future, and exasperation over things that are past, has in the recent councils of his followers meted out a terrible punishment for an immediate offense most trifling in comparison, but in weighing this matter, the way in which the good people of Little Lake have been harassed and intimidated may to some degree at least palliate for the decided step, and will probably forever suppress the riotous actions which at times annoy the place. On Visiting Willittsville the day after the tragedy, one would have expected to find everybody excited, but not so. The sun rose on the dead bodies dangling in the air, and found the town as quiet as usual, though the news had spread long before the arrival of daylight. Nor was there any excitement over the matter, and one would almost be forced to think that it was not altogether unexpected, though election returns were anxiously expected and excited of more interest than the spectacle at hand.”
Grave was marked at one time with a redwood board and small stone.
Date of death: "Ukiah City Press"
Sacramento Daily Union, Vol. 8, No. 164, 18 September 1879:
THREE MEN HANGED FOR BURGLARY
Mendocino (Ukiah) Dispatch, September 5th: for many years past, the quiet city of Zeus, Little Lake have been harassed by a crowd of men who have been engaged in stealing, robbing smoke houses, and at times getting drunk and rendering night hideous with their shouts, yells and reckless use of firearms; and no one dared complain lest his life pay for the act, and those things have resulted it seems in the organization of a vigilance committee, whose first work was performed n the night of Wednesday last, when about twenty-five of them with muffled head and foot entered the room in Brown’s Hotel where John Tathem and Davis were standing guard over three men, ABIJAH GIBSON, Elijah Frost and Thomas McCracken, who had been arrested on Monday, charged with petty larceny and were awaiting trial. Mr. Cooer of this place had been sent for to defend them. Two of them were handcuffed together and the other was by himself. The vigilantes took them to the bridge above town, compelled the guards, who were gagged and tied, to accompany them. When at the bridge the well rope from Jim Hollman’s well was produced, placed around the prisoners’ necks. Not a word was spoken. The prisoners were pushed over the bridge and hung suspended by the rope. During the whole of the proceedings not a word was uttered. Coroner Dozier and District Attorney Haile, upon the arrival of the news, hastened to the scene. The inquest was held. The guards, who gave evidence, testified that the men were so completely masked that they could not recognize any of them further than there were no young men among them. And there seems to be no evidence pointing to the perpetrators in this terrible deed. Judge Lynch, in his probable terror for the future, and exasperation over things that are past, has in the recent councils of his followers meted out a terrible punishment for an immediate offense most trifling in comparison, but in weighing this matter, the way in which the good people of Little Lake have been harassed and intimidated may to some degree at least palliate for the decided step, and will probably forever suppress the riotous actions which at times annoy the place. On Visiting Willittsville the day after the tragedy, one would have expected to find everybody excited, but not so. The sun rose on the dead bodies dangling in the air, and found the town as quiet as usual, though the news had spread long before the arrival of daylight. Nor was there any excitement over the matter, and one would almost be forced to think that it was not altogether unexpected, though election returns were anxiously expected and excited of more interest than the spectacle at hand.”
"A. Gibson"
Grave was marked at one time with a redwood board and small stone.
Date of death: "Ukiah City Press"
Sacramento Daily Union, Vol. 8, No. 164, 18 September 1879:
THREE MEN HANGED FOR BURGLARY
Mendocino (Ukiah) Dispatch, September 5th: for many years past, the quiet city of Zeus, Little Lake have been harassed by a crowd of men who have been engaged in stealing, robbing smoke houses, and at times getting drunk and rendering night hideous with their shouts, yells and reckless use of firearms; and no one dared complain lest his life pay for the act, and those things have resulted it seems in the organization of a vigilance committee, whose first work was performed n the night of Wednesday last, when about twenty-five of them with muffled head and foot entered the room in Brown’s Hotel where John Tathem and Davis were standing guard over three men, ABIJAH GIBSON, Elijah Frost and Thomas McCracken, who had been arrested on Monday, charged with petty larceny and were awaiting trial. Mr. Cooer of this place had been sent for to defend them. Two of them were handcuffed together and the other was by himself. The vigilantes took them to the bridge above town, compelled the guards, who were gagged and tied, to accompany them. When at the bridge the well rope from Jim Hollman’s well was produced, placed around the prisoners’ necks. Not a word was spoken. The prisoners were pushed over the bridge and hung suspended by the rope. During the whole of the proceedings not a word was uttered. Coroner Dozier and District Attorney Haile, upon the arrival of the news, hastened to the scene. The inquest was held. The guards, who gave evidence, testified that the men were so completely masked that they could not recognize any of them further than there were no young men among them. And there seems to be no evidence pointing to the perpetrators in this terrible deed. Judge Lynch, in his probable terror for the future, and exasperation over things that are past, has in the recent councils of his followers meted out a terrible punishment for an immediate offense most trifling in comparison, but in weighing this matter, the way in which the good people of Little Lake have been harassed and intimidated may to some degree at least palliate for the decided step, and will probably forever suppress the riotous actions which at times annoy the place. On Visiting Willittsville the day after the tragedy, one would have expected to find everybody excited, but not so. The sun rose on the dead bodies dangling in the air, and found the town as quiet as usual, though the news had spread long before the arrival of daylight. Nor was there any excitement over the matter, and one would almost be forced to think that it was not altogether unexpected, though election returns were anxiously expected and excited of more interest than the spectacle at hand.”
Grave was marked at one time with a redwood board and small stone.
Date of death: "Ukiah City Press"
Sacramento Daily Union, Vol. 8, No. 164, 18 September 1879:
THREE MEN HANGED FOR BURGLARY
Mendocino (Ukiah) Dispatch, September 5th: for many years past, the quiet city of Zeus, Little Lake have been harassed by a crowd of men who have been engaged in stealing, robbing smoke houses, and at times getting drunk and rendering night hideous with their shouts, yells and reckless use of firearms; and no one dared complain lest his life pay for the act, and those things have resulted it seems in the organization of a vigilance committee, whose first work was performed n the night of Wednesday last, when about twenty-five of them with muffled head and foot entered the room in Brown’s Hotel where John Tathem and Davis were standing guard over three men, ABIJAH GIBSON, Elijah Frost and Thomas McCracken, who had been arrested on Monday, charged with petty larceny and were awaiting trial. Mr. Cooer of this place had been sent for to defend them. Two of them were handcuffed together and the other was by himself. The vigilantes took them to the bridge above town, compelled the guards, who were gagged and tied, to accompany them. When at the bridge the well rope from Jim Hollman’s well was produced, placed around the prisoners’ necks. Not a word was spoken. The prisoners were pushed over the bridge and hung suspended by the rope. During the whole of the proceedings not a word was uttered. Coroner Dozier and District Attorney Haile, upon the arrival of the news, hastened to the scene. The inquest was held. The guards, who gave evidence, testified that the men were so completely masked that they could not recognize any of them further than there were no young men among them. And there seems to be no evidence pointing to the perpetrators in this terrible deed. Judge Lynch, in his probable terror for the future, and exasperation over things that are past, has in the recent councils of his followers meted out a terrible punishment for an immediate offense most trifling in comparison, but in weighing this matter, the way in which the good people of Little Lake have been harassed and intimidated may to some degree at least palliate for the decided step, and will probably forever suppress the riotous actions which at times annoy the place. On Visiting Willittsville the day after the tragedy, one would have expected to find everybody excited, but not so. The sun rose on the dead bodies dangling in the air, and found the town as quiet as usual, though the news had spread long before the arrival of daylight. Nor was there any excitement over the matter, and one would almost be forced to think that it was not altogether unexpected, though election returns were anxiously expected and excited of more interest than the spectacle at hand.”
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