Died in jail or a lockup
Santiago Platero
Santiago Platero, a Navajo man, was being taken to the jail at Crown Point, New Mexico, in the custody of a sheriff's posse when a party of men took him from the officers. His body was later found hanging from a tree about fifty miles north of the Crown Point Indian agency, near the site of an earlier killing. The Gazette account gives no date for his death and does not say who the men were or whether the posse resisted them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Santiago Platero was taken from a sheriff's posse by a party of men while being transported to the Crown Point jail, and his body was later found hanging from a tree.
Reported by: news reports.