Public execution of murderers Joseph Hetherington and Philander Brace, 29 July 1856, on the gallows.

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Public execution of murderers Joseph Hetherington and Philander Brace, 29 July 1856, convicted by a committee of San Francisco to die on the gallows. Engraving in "Frank Leslie's," 1856. Colored.

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