Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
This person was one of four people held at the jail in Monterey who were taken from it by a crowd and hanged, according to a reprinted San Francisco account from 1856. Their name and age are not given in the report. The account names no official who held them and does not say whether the jailer or officers resisted the crowd, gave up keys, or handed them over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: reprinted San Francisco account (reporters).