Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There was no arraignment, no trial and no verdict — just the passing of a sentence. And at dawn on July 24, 1892, Redding ...
Editor's note: The lynching of the brothers John and Charles Ruggles on July 24, 1892 in Redding is believed to be the last mob hanging to have happened in Shasta County. This story appeared in the ...