Executed
John Henry Meyer
John Henry Meyer was hanged at Placerville, California, a judicial execution reported in a brief item in the Semi-Weekly Interior Journal published on December 4, 1888. The notice is the source for the hanging and gives only the bare report of it. Meyer was in state custody when he was executed, and no other account of his life or death is included in this record.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state
Reported by: news reports.