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Licquel Barrca

died January 1881 · Bernalillo County, New Mexico

Licquel Barrca was held in the jail at Albuquerque, New Mexico, in January 1881. According to a dispatch from Albuquerque reprinted in the Lancaster Daily Intelligencer on February 2, 1881, a band of masked men took him from the jail and hanged him from the building. The dispatch does not say whether the jailers resisted, gave up the keys, or handed him over.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. An Albuquerque dispatch reprinted in the Lancaster Daily Intelligencer says a band of masked men took him from the jail and hanged him.

Reported by: Albuquerque dispatch reprinted in the Lancaster Daily Intelligencer (reporters).

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