Name not reported

A mob took four people from the jail at Monterey, California, and hanged them, according to a San Francisco Chronicle account reprinted in the New-York Dispatch in July 1856. This person was one of the four, and the account gives no name for any of them. The jail is where the people were being held when the mob seized them.

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