It was a rule that the body should be exposed for twenty-four hours as a warning to others.

All this may seem harsh, but under the circumstances it was the only way in which justice could be dealt out to offenders.

The camps were in consequence orderly and safe.

We must not think, because the Vigilance Committees of the mining camps and of the city took the administration of law into their own hands that therefore they were lawless and that their rule was that of the mob.

No, this was the only way in which peaceable citizens could be protected from the violence and crimes perpetrated by the turbulent and disorderly and vicious elements of society.