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In May, 1858, a band of 150 vigilantes formed and hung several bad men. The crook's leader, Jack Powers, escaped, but soon was killed. At the Rancho San Juan Capistrano these men had killed six men, who "were supposed to have had quite a sum of money in their possession."

-Essence of article in the San Jose Mercury, Nov 1, 1885 (page 1, column 1)

-Jim Lyons
 

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