Antonio Meron
Antonio Meron was one of five men held in the Bakersfield jail in California in early January 1878. According to a San Francisco newspaper correspondent, as reprinted in The True Northerner, a crowd broke into the jail in the early morning hours and took the five men from their cells. The account says the crowd held a mock trial and then hanged the men from trees behind the courthouse. The correspondent reports that the deputy sheriff showed the crowd where the men were being held after the crowd had broken in.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A correspondent for a San Francisco newspaper, reprinted in The True Northerner, reported that a crowd seized him from the Bakersfield jail and hanged him.
Reported by: A correspondent of the San Francisco newspaper, as reprinted in The True Northerner (reporters).