Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to a San Francisco account reprinted in the Lynchburg Daily Virginian in July 1856, a crowd took four people from the jail at Monterey and hanged them. This person was one of those four and was held at the Monterey jail when the mob took them out and killed them. The jail is named as the place where the mob seized them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: reprinted San Francisco account (reporters).