Joseph Ayala was born on June 17, 1883, in Puerto Rico to John Ayala, a Frenchman, and Mary Ayala, a Puerto Rican woman. Mr. Ayala had black hair and maroon eyes, stood 5'5½", and practiced Catholicism. Upon moving to the United States, he resided in Maynard, Massachusetts, where he worked as a mill hand.
Mr. Ayala was incarcerated in the Massachusetts Reformatory on January 15, 1908. Officials relocated him to the Rutland Prison Camp and Hospital on May 26, 1908. He died there on September 25, 1908, of pulmonary tuberculosis, at 25. His wife was present at his burial.
