A detachment was sent out, which cleared and thoroughly
searched a building opposite. Cannon were placed at points to command
and sweep the streets in the vicinity. Cavalry patrolled in all
directions, and large bodies of infantry were gradually placed in
position, and formed an immense square enclosing the entire block, and
allowing no new approach to the Rooms. Ominous preparations were also
making in the building by projecting from two of the second story
windows in front, platforms with, hinges just beyond the window sills,
supported by ropes running to the roof of the building.
At a quarter past one, as the funeral procession was leaving the church
on Stockton Street the two offenders against the law of God and man were
placed upon the scaffolds, and, after a few words from Casey, denying
repeatedly that he was a murderer, as charged by the Alta California and
other papers, on the ground that he had been taught always to revenge an
insult or injury, a signal was given and the unhappy men instantly
passed to their account.
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