Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
On May 6, 1893, a mob took a person who was being held in a jail in New Mexico and killed them, according to a brief national news roundup printed in the Oakes Weekly Republican on May 12 of that year. Three people were being held at the jail at the time. The roundup gives no name for the person who was killed, nor the name of the jail, and it does not say whether the jailers resisted the mob or handed the person over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: national news roundup.