"L. Hart and Son Company" was opened by Leopold Hart in 1866 and had been at the same location (intersection of Market Street and Santa Clara St.) ever since. His son, Alex J. Hart took over the store when the father passed on. In 1911, Alex had a son and named him Brooke, after his mother. Brooke had a friendly, mischievous personality and was well liked. Just about every one of San Jose's 60,000 citizens shopped at Hart's. 
On the evening of November 9, 1933, Alex J. Hart asked his son at 5:55 to get his car and drop him off at a planned dinner.
John "Jack" H. was born in Los Angeles on March 20, 1904. He was a big boy, over six feet tall and knew how to take care of himself. By the time he was twenty, Jack had married a local girl and settled down to married life. Jack had an outgoing personality and made friends easily. By 1928, he had two children and moved to Half Moon Bay.
Harold T. was born on a farm in 1906 and moved to San Jose with his family when he was eleven years old. He later dropped out of high school and worked in a series of low-paying jobs in and around San Jose.
Harold and Jack met 1932 at a filling station and later decided to try to make some fast money. They kidnapped and robbed two couriers for the Union Oil Company and Shell. The sum of $1400 was a small fortune back then. Jack was dreaming of the perfect crime and studied news paper articles for mistakes which let to the arrest of the perpetrator.
At about 9:45 that evening, the phone rang at the Hart's residence. A man stated that Brooke had been taken and was being held for a ransom of $40,000 in cash.
On Saturday, November 11, after nearly two days of waiting, the Harts went public and made an appeal through the newspapers. Brooke's wallet was found on the railing of a ship leaving San Francisco. (Side note: Babe Ruth was a guest on this ship)
On Monday afternoon, Alex Hart received a note from the kidnappers. According to the FBI report, it read: "One more peep to police will be his finish," it said, "You have made 1 squawk another will be too bad. . . "
On November 15, Alex Hart was ordered to take the $40,000 in cash and drive alone toward Los Angeles. If he agreed to this arrangement, the numeral "2" was to be written on a large sign and placed in a window in Hart's Department store. Alex Hart was willing to comply but unfortunately, he had never learned how to drive a car. The sign was placed in the window with an additional note. "Accordingly," the FBI report said, "the numeral "2" was placed in the window, but in view of the fact that Mr. Hart could not drive a car, in large black letters were printed the words, "I cannot drive."
When the kidnappers called back, the police was notified that the call was being made from a pay phone at a garage on South Market Street in downtown San Jose. They took Harold into custody before the call ended. Holmes four seven two. He admitted that he had been mixed up in this scheme to kidnap Brooke Hart and outlined briefly that he and Jack had kidnapped Hart and driven him up to the San Mateo bridge where they had bound him up and tossed the victim into the San Francisco Bay.
The agents made Harold reveal the location of Jack. Police took Jack, still in his underwear, into custody.
He admitted that they not only dumped Brooke into the bay, but also shot him when he struggled in the water. The gruesome details leaked and the public was furious. In the morning of November 26, two Redwood City residents, who were hunting for ducks, noticed a small bundle floating in the water less than one mile south of the San Mateo bridge. Brooke was taken to morgue in San Jose.
A mob besieged the police station the two kidnappers where held. An ultimatum was given to the police who refused to use guns against the attackers. Soon the doors were knocked in and the two prisoners taken to the nearby St. James park. Thurmond two eight zero. A tree and a rope sealed their fate, with up to 10,000 onlookers cheering and yelling. Most people were satisfied that the kidnappers got what was coming to them, though not all agreed with the method used. St. James Park was a shambles and curiosity seekers still roamed about, looking for souvenirs from the lynching. Many people cut off pieces of the trees where the two met their end. City employees were forced to construct wooden boxes around the trees to prevent them from being cut to pieces.
Across the nation, newspapers reported on the lynching in San Jose, calling the mob "crazy", "bloodthirsty" and "savage." Many reflected on how such a thing could happen in a quiet, civilized town like San Jose. Oakland's Post Enquirer called it "Vigilante Justice for Brooke Hart Slayers" while the Washington News said, "Lynchings Inspire Fear of God."
The day after the lynching, Governor James Rolph, expressed his approval of the double murder at St. James Park. "If anyone is arrested for this good job, I'll pardon them all. The aroused people of that fine city of San Jose were so enraged...it was only natural that peaceful and law abiding as they are, they should rise and mete out swift justice to these two murderers and kidnappers." Rolph said that he would like to release all the kidnappers and murders in San Quentin and Folsom prisons and deliver them to the "patriotic San Jose citizens who know how to handle such a situation." Before the Governor could make good on this pledge he passed away.
In 1936, Metro Goldwyn Mayer released a movie starring Spencer Tracy, Sylvia Sydney and Walter Brennan. Written and directed by Fritz Lang, who had barely escaped with his life from Nazi Germany, the script was based on the terrible events at San Jose.
Though many thousands witnessed the events of November 26, 1933 in San Jose, no one was ever convicted of any crime related to the lynching.
Having said all this, I am sure you will have figured out the coordinates by now. Otherwise - maybe you should read the story. You can see the sign behind the trees towards San Jose. Once the nearby Guadalupe Rover project is finished I am sure we can find a nicer location for this cache.
The cache is located at
N 37 20.<John Jack ...>
W 121 54.<Thomas Harold ...>
Thanks to workerofwood for the picture - since you snapped the locationless cache before I was able to. And the one beside it is also gone already . . . Sorry folks.