According to Grace Atherton in _California An Intimate History_ it was a Joseph Hetherington, Englishman, who was hung for murder by the Committee of Vigilance. Rice or Bendixon not mentioned. Hope this helps, Carolyn Norby Family wrote: > > Checked CAIF and did not come up with anything under Rice, Heatherinton, > Bendixon. Did look in a California history book and found mention of the > Vigilante committees...there was a reference to a Hetherington, no first name, > as being the last of the three executions carried out by the committee...I will > check later in the week on Hetherington spelling in CAIF > > Colleen