Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
This person was one of four people held at the jail in Monterey who, according to a San Francisco account reprinted in the Lynchburg Daily Virginian in July 1856, were taken from the jail by a crowd and hanged. The reprinted account says the crowd took them from the jail and killed them. Hanging is the method the account reports for each of the four deaths.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: reprinted San Francisco newspaper account (reporters).