Died in jail or a lockup
Antonio Jose Bartz
Antonio Jose Bartz was held at the Las Lunas jail in New Mexico when masked men took him from the jail on the night of May 4, 1893, and hanged him from a tree, according to a brief dispatch in the Morning Journal And Courier published May 6, 1893. The dispatch says he was one of three men taken from the jail in this way. The account gives no information about the jail staff or whether they resisted the mob. He was killed by a mob that took him from the custody of the jail.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.