Name not reported
He was one of five men of Mexican origin held at the Bakersfield jail in Kern County, California. A San Francisco correspondent's account, reprinted in The True Northerner, says a crowd broke through the jail's doors in the early morning of January 5, 1878, and took him from his cell. According to the account, jail officials had locked the cells and removed the key to the safe, but the crowd got in anyway. The crowd held a mock trial in the courtroom and hanged the five men from trees behind the courthouse.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A correspondent of the San Francisco newspaper, as reprinted in The True Northerner, says a crowd broke into the Bakersfield jail, took the man from his cell and hanged him from a tree behind the courthouse.
Reported by: A correspondent of the San Francisco newspaper, as reprinted in The True Northerner (reporters).