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  2. After three months of control, having taught a never-to-be-forgotten lesson to the corrupt and the criminal, and having seen a good municipal Government in charge, the Vigilance Committee disbanded, and thus ended one of the most remarkable instances on record of a revolt of decent citizens against a corrupt city Government.
  3. Museum of the City of San Francisco

    www.sfmuseum.org › hist5 › graft2.html

    The most striking incident in connection with this transaction, from the standpoint of one trying to analyze the forces which have combined to embarrass the people in these prosecutions, was the fact that the attorney who reported the necessity for bribery was a former judge of the Superior Court and the then president of the San Francisco Bar ...
  4. Museum of the City of San Francisco

    www.sfmuseum.org › hist1 › ruef.html

    San Francisco was home to many of the most powerful people of the West, and the less scrupulous of them reinforced their power through corrupt politicians and city bosses. Ruef soon adopted the position of "If you can't beat them, join them" and quickly studied the ways and methods of how the political system actually operated in San ...
  5. Museum of the City of San Francisco

    www.sfmuseum.org › hist5 › graft1.html

    San Francisco, December 31, 1909. Honor Edward R. Taylor, Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco, San Francisco. Dear Sir: On the 12th day of October, 1908, your Honor addressed a letter to each of us, requesting an investigation into the circumstances giving rise to a series of criminal trials which have seen been known as the "Graft Prosecutions".
  6. Museum of the City of San Francisco

    www.sfmuseum.org › hist5 › graft3.html

    The Granting of Immunity of Certain of the Supervisors and Leniency to Ruef, and the Resultant Cleaning Up of the City Government. The number of persons indicted for the crimes we have described in the preceding pages was twenty-one, including Mayor Schmitz, Abraham Ruef, and three of the Supervisors.With the exception of these five, the indicted men represented interests which would receive ...
  7. Museum of the City of San Francisco

    www.sfmuseum.org › hist5 › graft4.html

    The San Francisco Police Department. The total number of crimes for which indictments were found by the Oliver Grand Jury was one hundred and seventy-five, participated in by nearly forty persons, representing practically every walk in life.Not one of them was unearthed by the Police Department of San Francisco, and the Chief of Police himself was indicted for perjury before the Grand Jury and ...
  8. Next to 1848, when gold was discovered in California, 1856 was perhaps the most exciting year of the era by reason of the flood of crime into the city and brought about the organization of the famous Committee of Vigilance of that year, a form of direct action which attracted the attention of the world to a new style of summary justice, the result of extraordinary conditions in San Francisco.
  9. Museum of the City of San Francisco

    www.sfmuseum.org › hist6 › woolley.html

    On the 2nd of June, 1856, Governor J. Neely Johnson having declared the city of San Francisco to be in a state of insurrection, issued orders to Wm. T. Sherman to enroll as militia, companies of 150 men of the highest standard and to have them report to him, Sherman, for duty. The response was light and the order looked upon as a joke and ...
  10. Museum of the City of San Francisco

    www.sfmuseum.org › hist1 › schmitz.html

    To the considerable surprise of all concerned, 1901 saw him elected Mayor of San Francisco; the first Union Labor mayor in United States history. 1906 brought San Francisco two shocks: the Great Earthquake and Fire, and the indictment of Mayor Schmitz on 27 counts of graft and bribery. Convicted, and given the maximum penalty, he appealed and ...
  11. Museum of the City of San Francisco

    www.sfmuseum.org › hist6 › hang.html

    The news spread rapidly through the city, and in ten minutes after the death of Cora and Casey, great numbers of men were to be seen rushing down Clay, and Washington, and Commercial streets, as though it were a matter of life and death to get a sight of the spectacle. The bodies were then taken down and handed over to the Coroner.

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