Died in custody
Name not reported
A man of American Indian descent, whose name is illegible in the surviving newspaper account, was in the charge of a constable at Stony Creek, California. On the night of April 14, 1882, a mob took him from the constable and hanged him about thirty miles west of a place named in the dispatch, as reported in The Daily Gazette on April 28, 1882. He was held by the constable when the mob seized him, and he was killed by the mob.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.