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Justice For A Sporting Man – One Way Or Another Charles Cora got a hung jury, followed by a hanging

November 27, 2020 Mark Boardman
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Hanging of Charles Cora

November 17, 1855. Sporting man Charles Cora brutally murders an unarmed US Marshal William Richardson in San Francisco. The two had some previous encounters and apparently the gambler decides to end things. Cora is arrested and tried–and somehow the jury deadlocks.  It’s not clear if there’ll be a new trial, or Cora may walk.

So the Vigilance Committee takes over, lynching Cora and killer James Casey on May 20, 1856.

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Mark Boardman is the features editor for True West Magazine as well as the editor of The Tombstone Epitaph. He also serves as pastor for Poplar Grove United Methodist Church in Indiana.