Died in jail or a lockup
Chaps Gregorio
Officers were bringing Chaps Gregorio to the Monterey town jail when a mob took him from them, according to a 1897 account in The San Francisco Call of events about thirty years earlier. The mob hanged him from a schoolhouse balcony at the old Cuartel on California Street, in sight of pupils. The account says he died of strangulation.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A 1897 newspaper retelling says a mob took Chaps Gregorio from the posse before he reached the Monterey jail and hanged him from a schoolhouse balcony.
Reported by: 1897 newspaper retelling of the event (reporters).