Died in jail or a lockup
Louis Lachenais
Louis Lachenais, a Frenchman, was held in the Los Angeles jail in the early 1870s. A mob of about 200 people entered the jail and took him out, and the deputies sworn to defend the jail were forced to give him up. The account names a vigilance committee as the mob. The mob hanged him from a scaffold in an old corral on Temple street, and before he died he made a short speech in Spanish to the crowd.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A newspaper account says an orderly mob of about 200 took him from the Los Angeles jail and hanged him after deputies were forced to surrender.
Reported by: newspaper account of the 1870s lynching in Los Angeles (reporters).