Name not reported

Four people held in the jail at Monterey, California, were taken from it and hanged by a crowd, according to a San Francisco Chronicle account reprinted in the New-York Dispatch in July 1856. The account says the crowd was intense and that people turned out en masse during the hanging. The paper names none of the four.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The San Francisco Chronicle, as reprinted in the New-York Dispatch, reports that a crowd took four people from the jail at Monterey and hanged them.

Reported by: San Francisco Chronicle (as reprinted in the New-York Dispatch) (reporters).

Source

• New-York Dispatch, July 6, 1856, page 7 New-York Dispatch, July 6, 1856