Name not reported

According to a San Francisco Chronicle account reprinted in the New-York Dispatch in July 1856, four people were taken from the jail at Monterey, California, and hanged. This person was one of those four and is identified only as one of the group. The account says a mob took them from the jail and killed them by hanging.

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