Name not reported

This person, who was American Indian, was one of four people taken from the jail at Monterey, California, and hanged, according to a San Francisco Chronicle account reprinted in the New-York Dispatch in 1856. The mob that took them from the jail hanged them. The account gives no name, age or other details about the person's life.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

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

Source

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