The vigilante committee arrested three men in Nevada City in December 1863 and charged them with murder.

For the next month, the vigilante committee arrested many local men.

A vigilante committee of neighbors apologetically burned him to death in the Court House privy when his interesting condition came to light.

After years of service with the local vigilante committees, Larn was elected county sheriff in April 1876.

Other men seeking control of Skagway formed a vigilante committee under the guise of law and order but had little effect in the beginning.

Casey was lynched by the early vigilante committee.

A vigilante committee had been trying to rid the county of "lawbreakers" using illegal arrests, coerced confessions and forced exile as tools in its campaign.

What looked like a vigilante committee was converging on us, bearing torches.

A local vigilante committee even tried to lynch him.

At some point Reid joined the vigilante committee known as the 101.