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Old 01-11-2019, 05:15 PM   #28
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January 11, 1864 The morning after the hanging of Sheriff Plummer and his deputies a group of Bannack citizens went to the cabin of Joe Pizanthia to question him about his possible involvement with the Road Agents. Mary Edgerton writes of the incident in a letter: "On Monday they attempted to arrest another of the band, a Mexican, and two of our men were shot by him (one died the next day, the other was not seriously wounded,) which so exasperated the people that they came to our house and got the howitzer that had been left in Mr. Edgerton's care, and with that threw shells into the house which exploded and injured the man. They then took him out and shot and hung him. They then tore down the house and set it on fire and threw his body on and burned it up." This was not the actions of the well organized Vigilantes but an angry mob of Bannack citizens.
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