Tremendous excitement! : Samuel Whittaker and Robert McKenzie rescued from the authorities and hung by the vigilance committee on Sunday, August 24th at 3 o'clock p.m. in the presence of fifteen thousand peopleJusth, Quirot & Co.[August, 1851]engPictorial lettersheet view of crowd watching hangings carried out by the first (San Francisco) vigilance committee of 1851Title from text printed below image.Spelling of "Furniture" on sign in this image differentiates it from a variant in the Robert B. Honeyman collection (BANC PIC 1963.002:151) with spelling "Fourniture."