Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

died May 1893 · New Mexico

A man held at the county jail in Las Vegas, New Mexico, was taken from the jail by masked men and hanged from a tree in May 1893, according to a brief item in The Middleburgh Post. The newspaper does not give his name, which is garbled in the old text.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: news reports.

Source

The Middleburgh Post, May 11, 1893, page 6 The Middleburgh Post, May 11, 1893

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