vigilance committee

Vigilance Committee is also a term used by some interest groups who monitor the actions of others.

A vigilance committee calling themselves the 101 demanded relief from the federal government.

The "vigilance committee," as the Guard was also known, cleaned up the town in 18 months.

Pratt dropped his proposal for a "vigilance committee" at the next meeting.

Several members of the citizen's vigilance committee offered to support him with arms, but Virgil said no.

However, the vigilance committee was unyielding, the two were lynched together.

They plundered and killed until local businessmen formed a vigilance committee.

In California, some residents formed vigilance committees to take control from officials whom they considered to be corrupt.

It all depended on who organized the Vigilance Committee and why.

Lawlessness and violence gave way to vigilance committees and real law.

He was an active member of the vigilance committee, and the Pioneers' Association.

He campaigned against corruption, setting up a vigilance committee.

The two were hanged by the town's "Vigilance Committee" that same day.

In the newly settled areas, vigilance committees provided security, and mediated land disputes.

The evidence of guilt was beyond question, and a vigilance committee didn't waste any time in hanging him to the nearest tree.

The crime situation had become so desperate that each district formed "vigilance committees" to help increase the efficiency of the police.

With the vigilance committee, he fought for these fugitives to have the right to jury trials and legal assistance.

This brought the ire of the ringleader of the vigilance committee.

Casey was soon executed after a "trial" arranged by the Vigilance Committee.

"A Vigilance Committee would only inflame an already volatile situation.

Those settlers who find the state of matters intolerable, organize themselves into a Vigilance Committee.

The settlers formed their own vigilance committees, which organized a board charged with forming a territorial government.

In 1935, the Village Vigilance committees were established and they helped the Police at large.

Hayden served on the Boston Vigilance Committee, which had 207 members, 5 of them were black.

A vigilance committee in Shakespeare was organized to combat rustlers and other outlaws.