John Holmes and Thomas Thurmond we’re accused of kidnapping and killing the son of the Hart Department Store President. A mob took the two men and lynched then in Saint James Park. This was the last vigilante justice style lynching to ever occur in the state of California.
Currently, a historical marker indicates the site of the last lynching in California.
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