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Clare V. McKanna, Jr. The Trial of "Indian Joe": Race and Justice in the Nineteenth-Century West. (Law in the American West, number 7.) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2003. Pp. xii, 155. $35.00.

Jose Gabriel was hanged inside the walls of San Quentin Prison on the morning of March 3, 1893. He had been sentenced to death in San Diego County three months before and was executed without appeals, or even an application for clemency. His crime was the murder of a farmer and his wife for whom he had worked. About sixty years old, Gabriel, known locally as "Indian Joe," had worked odd jobs in San Diego County for about twenty-five years. He was a hard worker and had never been in trouble with the law. The evidence against him was purely circumstantial and, by any standard, incredibly flimsy: while he had been caught at the scene of the crime, all concerned simply ignored the fact that he had lived there, sleeping in the barn.

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