Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
An unnamed person held in a New Mexico jail was taken out by a mob and killed on or about May 6, 1893, according to a brief national news roundup published in the Oakes Weekly Republican on May 12, 1893. The roundup does not name the person or the jail, and it does not say how the mob got in or whether jail staff resisted or handed the person over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched