ORANGE COUNTY ALMANAC : Lynch Mob Strikes
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In one of early Orange County’s most sensational crimes, vigilantes broke into the Santa Ana Jail in 1892, hauled out a prisoner and lynched him.
The mob believed that the prisoner, a laborer named Francisco Torres, murdered a ranch foreman, William McKelvey, in a pay dispute. The mob hanged Torres from a light pole near the jail.
Source: Santa Ana Standard
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